So in case you've been living under a rock for a while last week I was in LA for the SIGGRAPH Conference. It was an amazing experience and I met a ton of cool people. So I guess I'll tell you all about it!
Highlights of my trip:
Meeting a ton of awesome people.
-I met people through the volunteer program, met people from the Weather Channel, NASA, ILM, Riot Games, WMS, Dreamworks, Pixar, Nickelodeon, MPC... This doesn't mean I have a job people calm down. I just met awesome talented people this week.
Getting great advice
-I got to talk with a lot of professionals. The cool thing about hanging out with a bunch of people who love doing the things you do is that you can talk for hours about all sorts of things about the business. It now has me wanting to learn a little bit of programming language and I'm debating whether or not to change from a Character Animator to a 3D Generalist, until I get into the field and gain a little more focus.
The conference in general was awesome
-So I did have to work 30 hours of the conference but during my spare time I did manage to explore the Exhibition floor and snagged a Pixar poster plus a ton of other swag. I got to see the Electronic Theater a million times. I saw a ton of talks on Avatar, How to Train Your Dragon, Alice in Wonderland, and Avatar the Last Air Bender. I even met this guy!
He came to the Sig Store and asked for a bag. William Shattner was there but of course I missed it because I was working in the Siggraph store. Honestly keep up....So what's next for Jenni?
Currently I'm waiting for orders to come in from my internship turned into contracted animation work. A lot of networking and emails and trying to find a full time job. But I'm not just sitting around doing nothing. I'm in the works of a couple short films, now that I'm back from LA hopefully those can get started. I want to create my own character, rig, texture, and animate like crazy with it. (Advice from Riot Games) I'm also thinking of making a 3 part tutorial on how to texture. Part 1 Diffuse. Part 2. Bump and Spec maps.... Ok maybe it's 2 Part I lied. I have a ton of projects in my head that I want to work on. I just haven't had a spare moment since coming back from LA, crazy how busy I am without a job.
DREAM BIG - You can do anything if you work hard and believe in yourself.
