As some people already know, I’m enrolled in Animation Mentor, an online school for Character Animation. It’s only been 3 days and I haven’t met my Mentor quite just yet, but I’m already addicted to the place. This week there isn’t really an assignment. Just looking around and learning where things are. The people there are so crazy and friendly, its great.

Meanwhile back on the ranch, I’m ever so slowly modeling Hambie, the Zombster mascot. I just realized yesterday that I don’t like the way I simplified his feet and will be redoing them. I hope to have him modeled and ready to be rigged by February, which is when the Griffith Animation Society back at the University will be running the Advanced Rigging Workshop with Darren. I’m actually looking forward to it, which of course crazy because I despise rigging. I hoping the workshop will help though. I’ll get some WIPs up once I finish the model, feet and all.

There are some other things milling around the ranch, which I’m not at liberty to talk about at the moment - all very exciting. The first half of the year is actually going to be very busy for me. Hopefully not to stressful and a whole lot of fun. You’ll be hearing about it here, you’ll be hearing about it there, you’ll be hearing about it everywhere.

** By ranch of course I mean the store. There is no ranch. The ranch is a lie.

The Awards and Industry night was last night, which means we’ve finished the last of the Animation and Film events at university. In a couple of weeks we will graduate and may never see each other again. Somehow I doubt that. The Animation Industry is quite large, but it won’t mean that we won’t come across each other at one point or another.

Come January I’ll be starting Animation Mentor Online while still working for Zombster, in my spare time. I’m looking forward to AM. I’ll finally be able to concentrate on animation and animation alone. In my spare time, I’ll be modeling and rigging the mascot for Zombster, our resident zombie hambster. He will eventually be starring in his own cinema advertisement.

So while the excitement of university is over, it is definitely not dull over here.