I was looking at the front page of YouTube today and saw a video of Brett Dennen playing in a studio in Kentucky. It’s really cool seeing him become so successful the past few years. When I was 10 years old, he was my summer camp counselor. I later worked with him at the same camp for a couple of summers and became good friends with his brother, who is really my asian brother from another mother. Brett’s an all around awesome person and if you haven’t heard his music, I suggest you go check it out!

It’s the beginning of the end of my time at Ex’pression College. I’ve just finished my final demo reel as a student, which you can view on my splash page. I have one last 5-week term and I’ll be done with school. I can’t wait because then I get to start working on my first feature film. It’s going to feel weird not being a full-time student since I’ve been one for the past 21 years.

I’m also moving to a new place with sweet roommates so I’m looking forward to that. Now it’s just a waiting game for the next few weeks until I finish school and move. The waiting game and a little Bioshock will have to hold me over until then.

This is my latest site. If you’ve been following along with me, you’ll know that this is something like my 7th generation website. However, all the sites before this one used all my own code as a backend. I’ve decided to ditch about 3 years of stored posts from my old database to move over to the wonder that is Wordpress. Never fear, if you’re here for my DirectX tutorials, they’ve all been transferred over along with my Maya exporter.

What’s been going on in my life these past few quiet months? Besides my normal school work and part-time job, I finished a short film I have been working on with a team of my classmates for the past 6 months. It was an interesting experience full of many long and sleepless nights. Last week, I attended Siggraph as a student volunteer in San Diego. I met a lot of great people at Siggraph and made a lot of good friends that were once only acquaintances. With school coming to a close in a couple of months and my major school projects behind me, my life is starting to return to it’s less crazier form. I’m about to graduate from Ex’pression College in a couple of months. When I graduate, I’ll begin working at my dream job at a great new animation studio. I couldn’t have asked for a better job. I guess hard work really does payoff :).

Great job, great family, great friends, a new niece…I pretty much love my life right now. Fjorg! Stay passionate, stay determined, take a chance, and great things will follow.