Wow it's febuary.

ok ok . sorry for taking so long to update this. Life as usual has been crazy, and any spare time I've had I've spent taking a deep breath. Jen is in Canada for her mom, and isn't due to return until march 16th. Hopefully she will return on that date. Life as a single dad has been an eye opener for me.

Future plans

So... my efforts to update my web site are proceeding. I do not yet have a design that i love, and frankly speaking I doubt I ever will. I have a few things going against me for that, one is the technical how to build it, and the other is I like so many different designs I have trouble limiting myself to just one, and when I do I feel the limitation. Ah well it is good to create stuff on my own again. When jen gets back she will help me with the technical. This means you won't see an update for at least 35-40 days. My google count down clock has set jens return at 28 days (that means she will arrive home on march 16th). I figure I'll give her a few days to get it built. ;)

The image beside this will be on my about page. I was going to cut out my girls, but then I was missing arms and frankly didn't want to have to rebuild them. The picture was already a composite.

Once my site is up, and I'm slightly happier with it, I am going to try some outside development. As tough as this sounds with my family situation going, and being a "single" dad for a bit, I have decided to help my crew develop their portfolios. Many of them have expressed a desire to improve their vfx type portfolios. I, by no means have a rock solid vfx portfolio. But I want to help these folks, and figure I will learn from it too. I will need to run it past my work to make sure it does not conflict with any legal obligation or ownership. We are not going to sell anything, just learn from it and enhance our experience.

It will be interesting to see who wants in. More so to see who actually contributes what. Time for some to step up I think.

STAR WARS CLONEWARS ANNOUNCED

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/623.html

http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/news/announcement.html

Pretty cool eh? Nothing shown here (except for one or two scenes) was done at the studio I'm at. But is can show you roughly where it's going. Personally, I like our episodes better, but I might be biased.

I'm re-working my professional web site. I've always hated the one I had, but never really had the time to make it better. Jen made it very functional, but I want a bit more flare.

If you have any good reference sites please pass them on.

cheers

ryan

Life goes on...

As per usual, my life is full of drama. Jen has been back in canada for... 5 days? Something like that. She has returned to help her mother. She has also asked me not to go into details about that saying that it is private, and not really my business to post on a blog. She has a point. So... well... what I can say is I miss her horribly. When I was here on my own, it felt very different. Strangly I feel way more alone this time, even though I have lily and the girls with me. I guess I'm trying to be a super dad. I'm not quite cut out for it I'm afraid. Jen is much better at the super parent thing. I enjoy work far too much. Fortunatly work has been helping me out there latly. ;) My episode, (not really mine but the one I was leading on my own) has faultered a little bit. It has nott been my fault, nor the fault of my crew who I still respect highly. Sometimes the best of intentions, are not enough. Sometimes no matter what you do in the battle you still loose the war. I'm not saying I've lost, but I have not been as wildly succesfull as I would have liked. Sigh. I will prevail eventually, and the episode does look fantastic. It's just running a little long. Ok sorry. Thats enough work talk.

Melanie is growing up quick. I'm gonna post some pictures of her all dolled up for her first dance. I can't believe she is only 11. I seem to have lost my post picture option button. I'll post this and see if I can't get it back. I've got a great pic of mel in her dress before she left for her own adventure.

Heh heh. Clearly this is not melanie in her dress for her first dance. But it is a picture. It's a cute one of emma in her school uniform on her first day of school. I lvoe them both. The picture I wanted and mentioned earlier must be on the other computer. That coment would have been so decadent 5 years ago, but now it just seems regular!

PS the spell check doesn't seem to be working today. maybe because I'm on the wireless... anyway sorry for the typos. I hope you understood everything anyway. ;)