The time is now Jan 1st, 2012.

So much has passed in 2011, but I look forward to new things in a new year. The only thing I fear is the culmination of gunk that can throw a wrench to our way of life. Worrying though is one thing I’ll try not to do so much this year, so I don’t care anymore. I concluded if man wants to change – it just has to deal with the damage it’s doing and face the ultimate choice to survive.

This year is promised for the beginning of an end to the old way of thinking. I look forward to this transition, but at the same time I lament that such a transition there will be an epic tug into a new dark age. This one much more significant because we are the final generation that has to make a choice. A very hard choice, but which ever we choose, what ever there could be to hold hope, that we might be able to survive and then thrive from our own induced darkness.

I hope this year of the dragon gives us hope to change for the better.

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The change is on folks!

I’m in a transition. I’m moving from SF to Boston again. This time to go around my troubles from school and get my way through to finish. Even though it might take me longer, I am not going to sacrifice a termination by the likes of folks who just want money. I know I’m troubled with academics, so I’m trying another route.

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Alright, this is my to do list before I head to boston -

• Finish the Multiverse visualization for vlad

• find important documents

• clean my room

• pack enough clothes to take with me

• back up my hard drive with all the things that I might be able to do while in boston in-between times – examples; Tutorials for unity3d, 3ds max, game maker, thinking particles, Zbrush, and Maya education videos.

• put things in bags for the spray

• and forward my number to Glen

Alright, that’s about sums it up for now. I’ll be home in roughly 72 hours.

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I now own GM:html5.

This means I’m ready to port my games of my past and create new ones too. The start of a revolution first in 2D form.

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. . . How can I write something if I’m forcing my mind to do something. The only explanation is that I’m in a little pain at the moment. Not the physical type of pain, more so the pain of losing someone close to me. 
 
So just to update – I wanted to inform that I won’t be for a little while because my mind is blank. 
 
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Hey folks

Well, I’m now just sitting in and waiting for my moment to move to better pastures. I’ll official attest on my site my plan to go about and find my own solution to my education. Seeing how grossed out my debt has become to a for-profit school like Ai, I don’t know if I ever will pay it off. In a rough estimate I can tell I’m up there in beyond the 30k. Its most what normally state colleges would apply on to students, plus the interest that I have to pay back will drive me straight down to the grave.

It doesn’t make any sense for me to continue, because I have a bad tendency of trying to better myself in different subjects. I can’t try again if I fail at a for-profit school general ed class because each one cost about 1500 for 4 credits. I just don’t have the monetary funds to survive in such an environment.  I as well went to talk to a few instructors about this life changing decision to move on to somewhere else. There are options, and i found a few that will hold me down until I find my spark.

One of the places I plan to get my education on is 3Dbuzz.com, a place for specifics on education in programming and interactivity. Also I found a place where it supplies all what I need in question of my focus without paying for it. Thanks to bill gates, it is possible. Ideally of course I would love to graduate and get things out of the way by now but my brain just won’t let me do that. So I have to take it slowly, and the cost of it isn’t feasible but I have only a  few classes left anyways so I’ll go back once I finish all my General Ed at my own pace.

Unfortunately there won’t be any art for a while. I’ve been trying to fix my state of mind. Recently a good friend of mine passed away and that got me thinking really hard on what I’m gonna do. I miss home so much, and miss my family and friends, but I need to keep going on my quest here.  I’ve been trying to get my mind together to get going with my friend’s project, but I’ve been procrastinating a whole lot. Today though I created a physical check list to remind me when I sit down on what to do, besides my alarms I set on my phone for the hours to work on the project. Its all me now, no excuse.

I’ll post animations of that project when I can get to it.

Till later folks.

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Hey folks! 
  
Well I had an old idea that I wanted to fully flesh out. Its been taking me ages to make it happen because of many other things in the way but today I sat down and learned a new application that will let me accelerate things. This app is more of a complimentary program to maya and max. It lets me do heads in no time. Heads that looks like me and my friend Ed. This is revolutionary because about 10 years ago I didn’t have the means to do this. I either had to draw it out, scan it, color it, and make a story out of it. Today I can simply just take 2 photos on my smart phone, set the ticks to according placement on the face, and BOOM! in 4 minutes I get a digitized head of my friend Ed. 
  
So I tested it on myself as well and the results were a bit off. The beauty of this program though is that I can export it straight to maya and modify it. The obj of course can be exported but there is a maya file export. It exports like a dream, no problems at all. This is like the best thing since the scanner. Now I can take anyone’s foto and adjust it accordingly with reference fotos to immortalize them in digital form. 
  
Because of this I can do the person and the place to create a quick something with it. Its possible to effectively generate an interactive album with this new technique. Another idea I can do is a graphic novel with 3D meshes in toon style. I can input more detail to my craft faster than ever before. Although I should practice making it from scratch – I will only focus from scratch in zbrush. This app helps me get the extras and diversify my crowds if I need one as well. 
  
You are now asking what is this application I’m talking about?! Well sir, I will not say. It’s currently my trade secret. You can take a look at the product of such wonderful technology below. 
  

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On October 5th, 2011 – A great man with an edge and hunger to innovate passes away. His name was Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple inc. The one pioneer who even founded Pixar and revolutionized animation. A man who seemed to touch fate and turn things into gold. He was a very good speaker on stage, and a force not to be messed with.

I feel like he was a beckon to me as time was passing by. I really wanted to meet this great man in person, as he set a blazed the souls who get in contact with him. It all started with my interaction with Macintosh computers in elementary school. Very simple interface, but so much was given. The “Cool Pix” application in apple got me jumping around with the mouse to draw silly graphics all day. Sim City for me was my gaming experience on the old black & white Mac that my cousin used to own. The same goes with many other great wholesome experiences. This was all possible thanks to this one man. He didn’t have super outrageous engineering prowess to do this but more of a humble leader-esque  quality to unify smart folks to create and innovate.

He was hardcore, and to a point, very demanding but it was all due to having energy to push for innovation. This great man made possible to start the fire while others drag on the flame and expand it. Samsung in truth would not be great without its counter face. The same goes with Google with their android OS. Apple sets the field while others line up to play. The same goes with Windows – it can’t be denied that this man made shit happen at a such a great scale.

I don’t own an iphone, but because of him, as I am a aspiring game developer, he yanked away the tyranny of control away from the big 3 corporations and created opportunity to the little guy to become what they wish to be. I have to applaud this even though now the game has changed – we must all evolve from it. The future is possible and I give thanks to Steve Jobs for helping me, the little guy, to be able to succeed.

Godspeed Mr. Jobs – (1955-2011)

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(I want to show a video from the Stanford Commencement address that Steve did to the graduates in 2005 after the break [hit more to see video])

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So, my plan for the next 11 weeks, besides school, is to make the best of my tools that I have with 3ds max for a FX production.

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