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February 3rd 2010 - So, long time since I wrote something here, and since I was looking around at my website today, I thought why not make another post, here comes a huge one. :)

Honestly, lately, I havn't been animating like, at all. I've been doing ALOT of programming stuff. I'm in the process of making a tetris game in flash right now! Other than that, on the programming side, nothing new really. I've finally got a pretty decent grasp on AS3 by now, and if I complete tetris, it'll be my biggest programming accomplishment. All in AS3 too!

Now on the animation side of things. A few days before christmas, so like two months ago. (Wow, its been that long already!) I finished my christmas/winter-flash-off piece for Newgrounds.com. I should have spend alot more time on it, but I wasn't really feeling the story, and It's hard to give it all you got when in the back of your mind you don't want to work on the project very much. But I got it done in a few weeks, and I was pretty pleased with some of the animation in there. We didn't place in the flash-off, heck, we didn't even make it to Newgrounds front page, (but I blame that on poor planning of the story, the animation was pretty good!). but on December 28th, I won a Medium Bamboo fun on Newgrounds 20th "Tablet Giveaway".It's been like 5 weeks now, and I'm still waiting eagerly to get my tablet! Ps. Thanks Tom! Anyways, take a second now and watch my christmas toon.

Watch "A Piratey Christmas"

In other animation news! Again I'm working with the amazing Mr. Zach Striefel, but this time he's bringing a buddy of his along for the ride. We're working on a SERIES (gasp!). It's still in the storywriting and concept art stage, but I'm excited to get this off the ground, as my concepts look pretty wicked, and the story sounds even better. It's an anime series, based around modern day ninjas, mystery, and magic! And now I shut up or else Jesse and Zach will kill me for spoiling the surprise! It looks super cool though, and It's barely even off the ground yet, so just wait to find out how exciting it will be once it gets off the ground.

I also have a few ideas for some shorts, that I might try to squeeze in between doing concept art, school, and animating this monster of a series. (Right now, we're looking at a few (like...10...15 maybe) 10 minute shorts. But we're not in any rush, and the suspected release date for Ep.1 is in like 8 months. But I'll update with some screenshots every now and then.

Also! on a side note, if there are any effects enthusiasts out there who haven't picked up a copy of Joseph Gillands "Elemental Magic", I seriously insist you do. That book is the animated effects version of "The Animators Survival Kit". It's a must have for anyone whos seriously animating effects. I highly reccomend it!

November 15th 2009 - The animated christmas card for the Saskatoon board of eductions contest is done!

Watch it here!