Canadian Robot Clones
Okay, either I exude some kind of little-boy chemical into the air that causes people to be really, really nice to me or the career services director is completely taken with me (that, or she’s far nicer and supportive than anybody in the natural world… which means she’s either a clone, or a robot… or Canadian… ;))
*ahem*
Anyway, I went to Career Services yesterday like I said I would and was pretty much fawned over for the 20 minutes I was there talking to Jessica (the career services director). She said a lot of really nice things and gave me a few pointers on how to tweak Revision1.com to provide more ready access to my relevant portfolio work in MAX and Photoshop. After that, I spent another 5 hours working on the Levee scene, which is really starting to take shape and only has some final texturing and a couple of little modeling tasks left (realized I didn’t quite build everything I wanted to include, and still have a little bit of tweaking to do on the ground planes and background “set”). I should be able to finish the scene and get it rendering tonight, which will leave the rest of the weekend open to getting the actual demo reel compiled, and send it off before Monday rolls around. That will leave me the rest of the week to get the current milestone done for my web development contract, and hopefully I’ll be able to wrap that up on time… if I go over by a couple of days I should easilly be able to make that up in the next milestone, because this one, contrary to what I thought while I was doing my preliminary planning around which I based my milestone targets, this one is going to be the heavy-hitter on the backend where I get all of the code necessary to drive the website’s front-end tools needs to be written or at least put in place for later fleshing-out. Future milestones will largely just build on this basic framework, so I need to take some time to really plot out how things are going to be broken up.
I’m still working on that “other” entry, and should have it finished by the end of the night as well. I’ll post it tomorrow before my family heads to Paramount’s King’s Island for a day of fun and roller-coaster-driven adrenaline rushes.