The part time work I had lined up has fallen through - the guy running it had a family emergency and had to jet to LA. Crazy huh. Hope all is ok for him.

You know it's not easy getting motivated to do 3D when I've decided to focus on concept art. I mean you'd probably think that texturing is ok, being, y'know, 2D art and all. But nope. I'm bored. Maybe I need to do a stint in the army or something to improve my self motivation.

Oh yeah, I may be working for a newish game company in Auckland next year if a big project goes ahead. Fingers crossed big time. I can't tell you guys anything about it other than that it's awesome.

Meanwhiles I'm daydreaming about getting back into paintball, and watching paintball DVDs, and suffering from paintball withdrawal symptoms. The most random thing happened too, some post I made on a forum caught the eye of an editor, and now I'm writing articles for [link] . I've never had any aspirations towards journalism but hey, I'll take it. Not paid of course but it's fun.

Also, stuff:
I have a linkedin account now: [link]

And, of course, I have a daportfolio: [link]

It'll be time to start spamming Weta and Sidhe and every other company imaginable with my stuff soon. Let's hope this goes well.

So I find out this week whether I've got my first real concept art job at a studio, even if it's only part time until I finish studying 3D. Sweet.

Working on final project for the course now, steampunk bunnies blowing each other up

ps I have a twitter:
[link]

I think I'll have to make a seperate one for art, as that one seems to have been taken over by paintball.

Just a random update for those wondering what my dealeo is these days.

I'm now halfway through my final year of 3D training at [link] . It's been great despite a few hiccups here and there, like how I got top mark in the modeling module and then failed the animation module.

I have a real hankering to do a high detail fully realistic 3D model of some of the space fighter designs I've had milling around in my head for about the last five years. There are many others as well.

Things are busy however, so it's unlikely I'll be uploading much here in the near future. Besides that, I've had one or two frights recently when it comes to the copyright on my work, so unfortunately most of my best and most marketable work will no longer be finding it's way onto deviantart.

Please bear with me however, there is definitely more on the way.

Or the lack thereof; I have discovered two things:

One, Moccona Decaf is almost/just as good as regular moccona.

Two, I can pull a 3am study night without caffeine if the situation demands it. Did it last night. Out of habit I had about seven cups of coffee. Decaf of course.

I am about to discover what it's like to do a fifteen minute presentation the morning after said 3am night, also without caffeine...

I'm actually feeling really good. Strange.