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Last night, a new force was brought into the world. Meet Shrimpo the Terrible (click for full size):

He may have been constructed from two shrimp tails and several plastic football-themed hor-dourves skewers, with a piece of green pepper for a head, but much like Frosty the Snowman, when Shrimpo came to life and started kicking butt at 80’s Trivial Pursuit during our New Years party, we knew that he had something special. You should have seen him wearing his beer-cap helmet!

Sure, he’ll rule the world someday, and we’ll probably all be very sorry, but remember this advice for the New Year:

1) Shrimpo the Terrible is always watching you.
2) If something good happens to you, it’s because you made Shrimpo happy.
3) If something bad happens to you, it’s because you have displeased Shrimpo in some way.
4) I’m the only one who he talks to at the moment, so if you need to get back on Shrimpo’s good side, you’ll have to go through me. I’m a very busy man. Food and cash will get you noticed sooner rather than later.

Anyway, have a great 2009, and long live Shrimpo!

Currently in the works…

• Starting in to help with Blender 2.5 development. The RNA system is very, very neat. I’ll probably be a “coding buddy” on the animation tools.
• Scripting and storyboarding for a short promo animated spot to help get some animation gigs;
• Tech editing an upcoming book on using Blender’s node compositor as part of the video production pipeline.

And Happy New Year, everyone!

I’m working on creating an AJAX-based web-to-print system right now, and was just doing a mental tally. I didn’t think about it until today, but when you’re coding something like this, you’re using HTML (granted, that’s not what many would consider code, but oh well), CSS, Javascript, PHP and SQL all at the same time. That’s a mess, and kind of tough to keep in your head. You web devs know what I mean. Then again, maybe I’m an idiot for coding all of this by hand. There’s probably some kick-ass tool that does it for you.

It’s only a year old, so it doesn’t really qualify as a “classic,” but here’s the stop motion the girls and I made last year:

Merry Christmas!