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Showreel, Jobs fair, mag and list

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I’ve been trying to get Flight of the Conchords tickets last night and this morning.  No luck…and you know what bugs me?  Those people who buys tickets just to make profit (big rip off) on ebay.  Ooo…aaargh…uuurgh…  Anyway, this is the FINAL final showreel of 2009.  Seriously… I can’t help myself. Perfection is my weakness.  I did this before I went to the Wired Sussex Media Jobs + Skills Fair yesterday.  It’s basically a fair with career recruitment stalls, course stalls, CV/covering letter/interview workshop and panel sessions of people who are already in the industry giving advices.  It was really good!  I get to network a little (really have to work on that.  I’m shy to new people okay, but that’s no excuse).  Made a new friend who came all the way from Bath!  That is dedication.  I was there from 12.30 – 19.30 that went really quickly with my head filled with so much information that I had to put them into, what it seems to be a never ending list of things to do.  It’s going to be a busy week, starting today.  I’m very excited though that there’s still hope.

Off the topic, in the Computer Arts March 2010 issue, I found this!  I was chuffed knowing that I helped to make Flöjtelös (Whistleless).  Also, it so happens that the screenshot they’ve published is the tiger scene.  The first shot I worked on I think…  I did those stripes!  What’s a tiger without stripes?  Just a big cat.  Oh I miss working in that small studio and eating lunch on the rooftop with Chris.  I dream of being in a small team studio…preferably Manhattan…doing whatever cool things I’ll be creating. Then at the end of the day, take the L train back to my dream rented flat in Brooklyn.   Hey, I can dream!

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One more thing, I’ve finished animating my own ident but with no sound!  My silly Mac can’t take Logic Pro or even a small external HD.  Not sure if it’s a RAM thing or what, but it was a pain to even import sound so I’m going to have to ask Mac people what’s wrong with it.  Okay, I better act on my To-Do list and I will leave you with this BBC article on the art of list making.  I can totally relate to Adolf Konrad’s packing list but he is a step ahead by colouring his listed items…

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I’m still here!

Monday, February 8th, 2010

It’s the new year and it’s February and here is the first post of 2010!    I’ve been too busy (possibly lazy too..) to update and I had lots of materials to post but I’ll just put some snipets of my Christmas.  I had an old friend visiting all the way from Australia.  It was great because we get to see places that I normally wouldn’t have thought about visiting.  I wasn’t sure if she was satisfied with her trip, but I think we did a lot around London and Brighton in two weeks.  England didn’t show the best winter weather either.  We saw How It is at the Tate Modern, changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square… We went to the Winter Wonderland Christmas Market at Hyde Park, The National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, V & A, Hampton Court Palace, Roger Hiorns’ Seizure exhibition, Brighton Pavillion, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross and Jack the Ripper trail.  The last one wasn’t an official tour so we had to follow a map that was part of an AA 1001 Walks in Britain file that my dad got me as a joke.  However, it proved to be very useful.  The tour will be the first and the last for me.  The cold and the short daylight really gave the creepy atmosphere when you go through small, quiet alleyways.

Besides the events at Christmas, I did some animations for a company, sent CVs/showreel, got an interview, had the interview, nearly got the position but they wrote the loveliest rejection email so I wasn’t too disheartened, did a storyboard and animatic for Jon’s music video, looked at Escape courses, re-did my showreel, still animating things for the company, learnt something about php from boyfriend, met another old friend and did some catching up.  Now it’s back to updating blog, sending CVs/showreel, character design for Jon’s MV and thinking of a new layout for website.  The list is never ending…

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Churros are freakin’ tasty.

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Freaky panto window display at Selfridges.

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Vero and I.

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Mushroom-like trees on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace.

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The start of the creepy trail of Jack the Ripper…

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Roger Hiorns’ Seizure

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Tourist couple posing as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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It’s an almost Christmas miracle!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

It’s very rare to get a snowy Christmas over here but it’s happening!  I was reluctant to go out because I didn’t want to step on the fresh snow… but I had to take pictures.  In my pyjamas.  I’m so happy!!!

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Nearly quarter of a century

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

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A few days ago, it was my birthday.

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