Check it all out here, especially the credits at Three Legged Legs:

^ This this is so beat full of business cards.

^ SV Schedule

I didn't take so many photos because I was so busy most of the time, or that you weren't allowed to take photos-- so I respected that. Some lecturers I was lucky enough to catch were: Ed Catmull, Eric Goldberg, and Tom Gasek, who I was so very lucky and had the greatest pleasure to get to work with through SIGGRAPH! He's such an amazing, smart and warm person, he worked on Coraline, Creature Comforts, Wallace and Gromit and many more. I got to run around with him taking time-lapse photos and did stop-motion with a program called Dragon Stop Motion. Anyway Catmull and his Pixar crew had a few wise words;

But on a lighter note Catmull said things like this;

Anyway I got to hang out with some awesome and funny people from Pixar, The Mill (who gave me their flashdrive full of their presentation and breakdowns!), Animal Logic, Nexus, Escape Studios and Rhythm and Hues! Then some days I would have 4 hours Off-Shift so this would happen:

^ One day my friends came to visit! Roger and Margolit!

 ^Then Craig and Matt! Psyop represent!

^ We found Post-its from Aaron Hartline an Animator at Pixar and teacher at Animation Mentor! Then he tweeted about us!

^ Awesome SV friends at Teardown!

^ One of the after-parties, I filled up on gas and came back to my car to find out everybody pitched in to help me but crammed all the money into my dashboard. I love you guys.

Yay! This week has been awesome! 

Hope that you had a great time as well if you where at SIGGRAPH! 

I should be updating a summary summer work post soon! 

P.S. Of course I got a Pixar Renderman Teapot! Finally!

They have their new website up and Twitter and Facebook

Check 'em out!

Then, what if LA was finally empty. Especially the 405?

^ For Chris' Final! Pretty fun actually! 

I'll include the model sheet and breakdown later. For now take my character textures:

^ Our VFX Final! I got to work with Jay and Mccue on this and they where the best people I've ever worked with (...being really good friends also helped)! Initially it just started out with me wanting to do a neon piece, but Raul pushed us to span it out on a story. Jay did a lot of shader/neon light testing to achieve the look, rigged the characters, prepped and rendered all the passes. Mccue and I worked a lot on the story/development/boards, and Mccue saw it all out with Previs, modeling the Lion character, and helping to animate the beginning deer shots, then comping it all together with Nuke. I modeled the Deer family, animated/finalized most shots, treated the footage and final comp in Nuke. It was a pretty awesome experience... I think we had 5 weeks to work on it. 

^ Game Animation Final for Bobby! I'm still working on editing my Animation Reel with Laura's work in it! So hold tight for that!

Anyway, here are some left over tidbits, non Final related:

^ I busted this out in 3ish hours for a project. 

I'll call it a WIP so I can work on it later!

Retarded sketches:

^ It's ALEX!

^ Since Myong Choi loves Tron and not smiling so much 

^ A silly drawing from December done on my tablet. Meh.

^ Awesome talk @ Gnomon on Avatar! 

Got to meet up with Neville Page again, met new faces and learned new things! Sweeto!

^ Otis Alumni and Lord of the Rings VFX Supervisor Jim Rygiel gave a lecture @ Otis!

Have a great week guys!

In the meanwhile, take this! I'm DONE!!

And finally...

With that, here's a quick assignment from Chris' class: 

Then here's a not so quick *cough render time* animation test for the scene above:

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Other progress on our VFX project that I'm working on with Daniel and Jay.

Neon stag test!

Then the models I made. Jay's almost done rigging them too!

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Then in this huge photo fest-- a few highlights of my 48 hour visit up to SF during Spring break!

^ Me and Jay @ ILM!

^ Craig joined us too! 

^ I wanted to ALWAYS go to the 

Suthro Baths since I was in Thailand!

^ Mark and Victor

^ Noms noms!

^ I was like a dog tied outside of a cafe--denied, as I watched master 

Craig drive inside. I was staying less than a mile away. 

So at night I pointed my head in Pixar's direction.

Hope everyone's week is going well! I'll post soon again!