ANIMATION FUN

So today, after finishing my animation project, I got called to the conference room. Apparently there's this big project with a tight deadline that they want me to do next week! It's great, I've been getting a lot of positive feedback so it's really encouraging. 

The project is a 2 minute animation promoting the use of electric cars... looks really cool. The only thing is we only have a week to do it! which is mad. from what I understand it will be me and one other person working on it. Fun.

I'm going surfing with my flat mate tomorrow, can't wait.

Fun fun fun

WORK STUFF

I heard back today that the client we were working for last week loved our ideas... which was nice. What I didn't realise was that we were in competition with a bunch of other design companies and that we won! so that was pretty cool. 

Unfortunately I'm not allowed to post any of my work. So never mind.

The next project is for AT&T... this time I'm doing the actual animation for an already approved board. Which is pretty cool. 

... I also heard rumors of a big music video project coming up. Sounds wicked. 

 

IMAGES AND STUFF

A palm tree. There are a lot of these.

My living room

The view from Ocean Ave.

            

Basketball on the Ocean front

 

This is my desk.

WEEK ONE

My first week at blind was wicked awesome. 

I loved it.

I have been assigned a creative director, his name is Tom Koh and he's an absolute legend!

I love him.

Tom is the guy who did all the 'Dogtown and Z-boys' and 'Riding Giants' graphics... the wicked thing is that when I saw 'Riding giants' - that made me want to get into motion graphics and thats the reason I'm doing animation. So there you go. I'm working for the guy who originally inspired me. 

pretty cool. 

So yeh, last week I was working on an "end-tag" for a network company called 'cellularsouth' I basically did some boards and test animations. Was good fun. 2 of my ideas were put forward.

 

I went to venice beach this weekend... very, very cool.

I've forgotten what clouds look like and I'm used to a steady 35ºC. My kind of weather. :)

hopefully I'll add some cool photos and videos soon.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

So far I have arrived, found my apartment, done a load of paper work and spent way too much time, money and energy on walking around, discovering there's not much public transport and then getting a taxi home for $40!! sick.

Apart from that it's pretty wicked here; the people are friendly, the city is massive, it's sunny, hot, things are cheap and drinks at blind are free :)

Bl:nd is cool so far. I haven't actually started doing everything but I'm starting to get a feel of what it's like to work here and in this industry. My boss, Chris Do, took me out for lunch yesterday. We had Mexican and talked about a bunch of stuff. It was great.

The office is pretty cool, it's small but smart with pictures of the work bl:nd has produced about the place. I have a dual monitor power mac that is mine for the 3 months I'm here. can't wait to start actually using it. A cool thing they have here is a library full of books, magazines, references, CD's, tutorial DVS's... pretty much everything you would ever need for design and motion stuff. At the moment I'm trying to learn cinema 4D while I wait to do my first project. Hopefully I'll get one soon.