Time in Motion.

Its funny isnt it? generally I can easily juggle 2 or 3 different projects but the last 2 weeks have been difficult,

This week I found myself doing some SFX work for Elliander Production ; A cool bunch of guys making a short film. I will probably be on that untill October I reckon.

Also this week i had to put my mocap hat on and work with some proprietry software for a mocap system.

Now i have been spoilt rotten by Vicon, so it was a real eye opener to have to use a different piece of software to smooth out all the little kinks in the mocap. at the start of it I was hating the software because it seemed so counter-intuiative, and now having used it for nearly 20 hours I know have a grudging respect for it. I still think there are some hefty flaws which mean that i will have to edit the data further but as a way of getting major discontinuties out of the motion then i guess it does what it says on the tin

I am sat here trying to think what i can do next. I am sort of blocked on both those projects for the time being, it is nearly 6pm, in 12 hours i begin 2 weeks of vacation, which will be spen up to my knees in plaster and paint doig DIY on the house. so tonight is the best chance I am going to have for a while to work on my own project.

The temptation is to grab a scene and do a layou and rough pass of animation, but what i will probably end up doing is taking an exisiting scene and tweaking it.

it does sometimes feel like there are not enough hours in the day, And the current heatwave makes finding or maintaining motivation all the more difficult

Its even harder on this machine, I often find i start surfing the internet at random as a displacement activity to actually making some animation. But i think no one can be 100% motivated on a given thing for ever, the trick surely must be to strike a happy balance between all things…

After many months of contemplation I have finally bit the bullet and signed up an acount here. However, now that I have the account its simply not a simple case of putting finger to keyboard and write some stuff. There is this whole wordpress thing to get a handle on and now having waited on tenderhooks awaiting the acceptance email from animationblogspot.com authorising the blog. Last night It came in and today I had chance to check all this out.  

A brief introduction should be the order of the day. I am an animator working in the United Kingdom, mainly in 3ds Max for the games industry. At present I am working on a personal project which this blog will be mainly used to document that project . Unfortunately there is not a great more i can write at the moment . I will be busy now until after the weekend