Woah woah woah.....

Back it up, back it up.  Where has the time gone, it's already December?!  It's already been 6 months since college?!  You're fucking kidding me.   It's too bad I can't be a lifer there, I see Mister Pontuti has been some very nice additions to the Multimedia Major. 


What's new in my life you ask?  Too much.  I've already been working at Midwest Manufacturing for six months now.  It's a great first job out of the gates, but as a co-worker puts it, "it pays the bills."   Forty hours of work a week there at the office, I wish I could match that with my own personal work at home.   It's been far too easy to wind down, kick back, relax and go to bed early.  As you can see from my last post though, that time is passing by fast.   Although it's not the creative atmosphere that I wish to work in someday, this job has been good to me.  I've been working really hard and been drawing in my sketchbook everyday, something that I managed to neglect while in college.   Another  perk is I'm 3d modeling all day long, as well as working with Autocad and GIMP.   Yeah, they're not the best software programs I could be using, but it's three programs I had known very little prior to starting there. 

   The little spare time I could afford myself I've been either gaming, making my own wedding invitations, reading a few new design books I've managed to pick up, creating an announcement/invitation for my groomsmen (hint: includes a wicked wax seal),  or other portfolio material.

   I've also been nagged by something inside myself to expand on some story lines I've worked on in school, as well a few other ideas I've come across in the past year.



Wow, I'm so thankful Blogger automatically saves my posts as I'm writing them,  an atttention deprived pug has been demanding some one on one time and managed to close out the window as I was working on a post.  Better post this one while it still exists....

My fiance is crazy.

We found a neat little switch in our bedroom that will turn the lights by motion activation.  It's nice, you can sit in bed and not worry about the light turning off before you go to bed.  We've also noticed that we have to wave our hands in the air to get the light to turn on again.  Well last night, well past our bed time, the light flickers on, I look at Jackie and she has her arm in the air.  "What are you doing?" I ask.  "I'm Stretching."  So I roll back over and go to bed, as best as I can when the bedroom light is like a spotlight in your eyeballs at that time of day.  Hours later, I roll over and see her reaching for the ceiling again.   "Stop that!" I nagged, hoping she wouldn't trip the light off again.  She didn't, and I adjusted myself slowly as to not trip the light myself.  Later the next day, I asked her what the deal was and she said she had the craziest dream about robbing stores, specifically McDonalds.  She said she was in the middle of a beat down on her accomplice.  I think she was trying to get away with the loot.   Good thing I don't make a whole lot of money.

Nice Hiccup.

My educational version of modo ended a week or so ago so I havn't had a chance to work on any more castle walls.  I have, however, picked up pixilogic's free sculpting program Sculptris.  It looks like a lot of fun and I'm trying to get a very good friend of mine to try it out, since he's absolutely amazing when it comes to clay and sculpty.  I myself am horrible and find the controls for rotating the object unnatural to me, it's hard to adjust to an angle to work from.  I also noticed that Zbrush is about half as expensive as Luxology's Modo, so that might change the game plan up a bit too. 

Work:  Work has been good, last week I started my own landscape set that will include a firepit /fireplace, a bench, counter top and planters.  If all goes well and I get a lot of the smaller projects out of the way, I should be converting my SketchUp drawings to CAD instructions later this week.  The set will hopefully debut in September.   Work has me going hard during the week that I find it hard to sit down and focus on my own work to polish up some resumes for a few dream jobs.  (I'm still looking around for jobs elsewhere, west-coast particularly ;)  The job I hold currently is helping me speed up my creative process while I practice sketching skills and I'm constantly searching for new things to inspire my creativity.  I've been using up a lot of creative brain juice lately....espresso and some good tunes has been helping.

Working with replicators to construct this wall of block.  I would like to continue this to make some old castle walls and parapets.  One thing I had problems with is the sheen of the stone.  I imagine that the castle wall would be old and smooth in some places where it would have a very slight glare, but I couldn't get that look without the walls looking plastic. I think I'll hafta make other variations of the block layout so it's not so obvious that the wall is full of replicators.