Rains & Trains

Falling rain. Passing trains. Thinking time.

Currently, I'm thinking about the many projects I want to do or am in the process of doing. It seems like just managing my courses is enough workload to kill a fullgrown horse, and still I'm inspired to keep working, keep developing outside of school and improving miscellaneous skills. One project I'm particularly keen of, I've drawn a character concept from my neverending novel project "Chasing Ella". I'd love to create a few orthographic images, turn them into a 3D character and then texture and animate it. It's the typical kind of project that I feel I could really be proud of once it's done since I'll have been responsible for all the stages of the process, from concept to animated and textured model, and it'd look really neat in my future portfolio. Which brings me to my most highly priored project for the time being; the creation of my portfolio. What I want to do is collect the work I've done within the field of animation and put it together in a showreel that will then work as my portfolio. I plan to create this collection towards the end of my current courses when I feel like I'll have a lot more material to showcase. Also I want relatively recent material in the reel that I can stand for, you know. The problem with this plan is that I'd like to apply for a trainee position at one of the local game studios while I study my last term, and to do this I'd have to put material together much sooner than the end of this fall, and write to possible studios as soon as possible. My friend gave me a pretty good tip though, to just put together some samples of the work I've done so far as a 'placeholder portfolio' and use that when I write to the studios. Hopefully what it'll show is my passion for learning animation without the content having to be perfect, and it'll beat writing to studios without any material to showcase. So that's also a project on its own, putting together a temporary showreel.

Not to mention all the writing projects... two contests coming up that I wanna participate in, one assignment for my writer's group, and then of course, the annual Nanowrimo hovering on the horizon far, far away. I have no idea what I want to write about for this year and even less of an idea how to pull that off in time. Got. So. Much. Work. Ahead.

Without much further ado, might see you on the other side of the dreamscape. Until then, rested sleep to y'all.

POET IN THE JAR