Moonjam

Well, it’s been a million years since I’ve posted anything - but I’m going to try to change all that by, well… posting something.

A lot’s happened recently.

One thing to note is that the Ballet-bot was admitted into the Ballistic/Autodesk book, Elemental 3. It recieved the award of ‘excellence’ in the category of Robots/Cyborg.

There’s some absolutely cracking work in there so it truly is a privilege to have my little robot nestled among them.

In other news, I’ve moved 300 miles across the country!

In 2001 I left the Arts Institute of Bournemouth & was extremely fortunate to land a job with the excellent guys at Digital Progression. I’ve had a fantastic & productive time there but I started to feel the tickle of the 7 year itch.

So a couple of months ago I waved goobye to the sunny shores of Bournemouth & headed East to the picturesque city of Norwich!

In other news, I’m still ploughing through Animation Mentor & am nearing the last few weeks of Class 4. I haven’t posted any of my progress so far, as I had intended to document it all on a separate blog. It turns out that working all day, animating all night & desperately hanging on to the coat tails of a social life doesn’t leave a lot of free time…

Still, it’s been a fantastic experience & I’ve learned so much that there’s every chance my brain will collapse.

My apologies for the tedium of this self indulgent post, but in my defense I am fairly tedious & self indulgent!

The sixth installment of the Exposé series of books from Ballistic publishing is available for pre-order from their website.

Not only is this great news in itself, it’s also extra exciting for me because not only does the Ballet-bot feature on page 206 (under the category of ‘Whimsical’) but it was also awarded the title of ‘Excellence’ for which I am extremely grateful.

Buy it now!

I’ve just noticed that the link to this blog from the main moonjam.com address has been actually pointing to my old site…

I have no idea how long this has been the case (that’s right - I’m pretty special) so I hope people have actually been here!

The Ballet-bot is featured in issue 99 of 3D World magazine.

The little guy also won Image of the Month & a DVD of HDRI maps. So my thanks to the 3D World staff.

I just can’t get over that the magazine is on Issue 99… I still have issue one!

Right, hopefully everything is working & in the right colour again.

I’ve still got to finish updating the gallery but most of my recent(ish) work is working.

I’ve just broken all of the css/styles…

Truly, I am amazing at the internet.

I will be attending Animation Mentor - Character Animation School from October this year.

I am extraordinarily excited!

As I get my head around the miracle of Blogging/databases and the such I’m afraid a lot of this site won’t work just yet…. In the mean time, you can find the old site/gallery HERE