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Friday July 9, 2004 - 3:46AM EDT

Not have a regular 9-5 job is the greatest thing in the world. I have been working out and working on websites like crazy. Even if I don't get this job at MBNA I will still have a chance to do something with the websites I am working on now. Two of them are really progressing and a third seems even more promising than the other two.

I have been looking up Ful Sail on the Internet. I have read both good and bad things. Pretty much an even amount of things. The impression I get from people who say bad things is that they were possibly expecting something else, something to actually make them ready for the film industry. I already have a college degree and it seems to me that one should already have a college degree before going there. What I am looking for is I think exactly what they offer. I am not a newbie at computer animation or film but I am not expert either. I think it would be much harder for newbies to get something out of this school than someone who already has some knowlege. Basically what I am looking for is experience in working on the type of equipment and software that are used by movie studios and whatnot. Also just to fill in the gaps of my current knowledge of computer animation and film. Most important is to buttress the knowlege I already have with known priciples. I have such a intense interest in this stuff I am just looking to hone my skills and make myself more marketable to animation houses and whatnot. The demo reel I have is rather pathetic in my opinion and the animation I have done is rather basic and unimpressive. I am looking for a place where I can finnaly focus all my energy on creating something great. I have ideas just never the focus or equipment to put something awesome together. There are glaring holes in my knowledge and skillset that need to be filled, such as color correction techniques, character animation, texture mapping, lighting, etc... I have such basic knowledge of that and haven't sat down to try and improve those skills. I want to do both computer animation and film. I want to animate characters and write scripts. Well I will research more about that school and others. More importantly I will try and get back into that kind of thing but websites are my priority right now since they pay the bills to some extent.