Here's my desktop right now....

Oh my god...my brain feels like pudding.....

Sketchcrawl...

I had the opportunity to participate in the San Francisco sketch crawl this weekend and had a blast! Almost sizty artists came together to trek through the city, sketching the whole way.If you live in the San Fran area and you like to draw, I highly reccomend it!

Some animations I'm working on...

Been working on some cycles and walk cycles. Having a great time spinning poi...drawing...animating...Think I'm finally starting to feel I'm improving in some way. That's a good thing, right? Resisting the urge to buy comics this week. It's been hard, but if I save my money I know it'll be easier to get completely moved out here...right Tess?




This is the web site where I got a lot of my rigs from An all-round nice guy with some pretty unusual models and rigs! Hightly reccomended!!!!!!!
http://www.3dfiggins.com/gallery.php?id=38&item=69#69

A scorpion animation I did really quick I've posted up here:
http://grosscartoons.org/T&GPics/scorp1.avi

My favorite error message of all time....

I was doing some work on MayaAPI when I got back this error message:

Error: The operation completed successfully.

.......WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!?!??!

MayaAPI is the bane of my existance.....

Pics of me doin poi...

There are some pics of me spinning poi at this guys page:

http://pages.prodigy.net/ron_lewis/templeofpoi/images/

I'll also post some of the "best of" for your viewing pleasure ;)

Think your life isn't too exciting?

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/stunt-city-p1.php

Blogs are bad?

Is it in bad taste to put a link to why blogs suck on your own blog? I don't know...let's find out!

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish

Some sketches and stuff...

Just thoguht I'd post some stuff from my sketchbook and some things I did in class last semester...
If you'd like to see more stuff, direct your web browser here:

http://grosscartoons.org/T&GPics/

Oh...here's a pic of a friend's fat cat...with a few additions via photoshop ;)

Essay on Durer...

This is an essay I just wrote on Albrecht Durer for my Aesthetics and the Renissance class. I never had much of an appreciation of Renissance art until taking this class. Guess I saw it all as portrayals of the same religious icons over and over...but I don't know...the class kind of kindled a new respect for some for these guys that I would have never given a second thought...

Anyways, I'm posting the essay in it's entirety. Feel free to reference it if you want, but please give me credit where credit is due...

If you would like a copy of the word document, complete with pics, e-mail me and I'll send it over to ya...

EDIT: 3/18/09 --> I've noticed a lot of traffic coming to this post lately. I'm taking it down because I have a feeling some people might be looking to use it to cheat on their school work. Since my mom was an english teacher for about 30 years, the thought of this really really bugs me. Sorry :(

Here's a model a friend of mine made back in Chicago. I'm probably going to start animating it once we get some collision and software issues worked out. Biped is pretty neat for 3dsMax...but for some reason it's workin kinda funny right now on my machine....

Maya 7 came out in case y'all don't know. Totally blew my freekin mind....

Did the internship today. Learned about something called Singletons...basically it's a class that calls an instance of itself...it's used to make your program more secure from the user and...blah blah blah...freekin boring...I'm sleepy so I go bye bye....

Poi!

I went tonite to my first fire poi class in San Francisco an dfound ti to be really awesome. I guess I function a little better in a clasroom setting that practicing on my own. I can say that I feel like I am more excited about poi than I was...mainly becuase I have goals now...and it becomes more fun when you're wihtin a social setting an dnot practicing it alone. After all, it is a PERFORMANCE art...

Here's the web site of the place I take lessons:

http://www.templeofpoi.com/

And here's the group I took lessons from in Chicago:

www.spunn.org

Note that last time I checked their site was down :(

Online classes almost over! Yay!