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Ottawa Animation Festival 2021
Apr. 30th, 2021 01:38 pmSo this got announced today:
https://apt613.ca/animation-festival-confirms-2021-will-be-online/
I suppose I'm not surprised. Less disappointed than I might've been in years past mainly because attending this particular festival has been a "nice to have if I can afford it" thing for me. When I went to Algonquin Animation, being able to attend as a volunteer was a perk of being a student in the programme, and to some extent a career-building tool as well, or so I'd hoped. For others in my class, that worked out reasonably well.
I wish that I'd better kept in touch with the rest of my graduating class, though, but diverting into other lines of work in order to pay off the student loan helped steer me away from such activities. So keeping in touch with classmates became a luxury first. The only person I keep in touch with these days from those times is Gerry Paquette, who ran the programme in those early years. Gerry's in game design these days, but still working at Algonquin.
I hope to partake of some part of whatever this year's festival offers. I am unsure of why I want that, though. More on that another time, perhaps.
More on other topics later today...
https://apt613.ca/animation-festival-confirms-2021-will-be-online/
I suppose I'm not surprised. Less disappointed than I might've been in years past mainly because attending this particular festival has been a "nice to have if I can afford it" thing for me. When I went to Algonquin Animation, being able to attend as a volunteer was a perk of being a student in the programme, and to some extent a career-building tool as well, or so I'd hoped. For others in my class, that worked out reasonably well.
I wish that I'd better kept in touch with the rest of my graduating class, though, but diverting into other lines of work in order to pay off the student loan helped steer me away from such activities. So keeping in touch with classmates became a luxury first. The only person I keep in touch with these days from those times is Gerry Paquette, who ran the programme in those early years. Gerry's in game design these days, but still working at Algonquin.
I hope to partake of some part of whatever this year's festival offers. I am unsure of why I want that, though. More on that another time, perhaps.
More on other topics later today...
Ends of Multiple Eras
Sep. 3rd, 2013 07:30 pmThe anthem of CBC Radio's As It Happens is being remixed, even as that of the Current has already been.
Author Ann Crispin has announced that she's bracing for the end of her cancer battle.
The Irish Rovers are calling it quits as a band.
Not sure what I make of all this yet...
Author Ann Crispin has announced that she's bracing for the end of her cancer battle.
The Irish Rovers are calling it quits as a band.
Not sure what I make of all this yet...
Writer's Block: Dream Job
Feb. 12th, 2009 08:34 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted one job. One dream job.
I wanted Charles Schulz' job. Equally as important, I wanted the characters he built. Charlie Brown and Snoopy, two sides of the coin metaphor of my life when I was in school. Not to go into a lot of detail, as that metaphor fits my self-perception in those days well enough that extra detail isn't needed.
Eventually, though, I got just enough of a dose of reality - namely Mr. Schulz' plans for his own future and those of his best-known toys - that it made sense to try for something a little easier to achieve.
So I looked to Spider-Man, and his friends and foes in the Marvel pantheon...and eventually matured to where DC made at least as much sense. Sometimes more sense. DC's like CBC: it's something you grow up into appreciating, and sometimes wanting to shape.
And now, today, I'm working on pencils on an indy comic. The whole artform and industry seems to be just shaking itself down just as I'm finally making my inroads into both. And yet I don't want to be doing anything else really.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted one job. One dream job.
I wanted Charles Schulz' job. Equally as important, I wanted the characters he built. Charlie Brown and Snoopy, two sides of the coin metaphor of my life when I was in school. Not to go into a lot of detail, as that metaphor fits my self-perception in those days well enough that extra detail isn't needed.
Eventually, though, I got just enough of a dose of reality - namely Mr. Schulz' plans for his own future and those of his best-known toys - that it made sense to try for something a little easier to achieve.
So I looked to Spider-Man, and his friends and foes in the Marvel pantheon...and eventually matured to where DC made at least as much sense. Sometimes more sense. DC's like CBC: it's something you grow up into appreciating, and sometimes wanting to shape.
And now, today, I'm working on pencils on an indy comic. The whole artform and industry seems to be just shaking itself down just as I'm finally making my inroads into both. And yet I don't want to be doing anything else really.
