The DreamWorks Kid

Things have been either very busy or very laid back the past couple of weeks. The routine at the studio has become comfortable. I no longer feel like the deer in headlights I was when I first started, and am feeling more and more competent each day. My supervisor in Modeling and Surfacing lost his coordinator last week, and so he's been calling upon his intern (hint: me) to jump in and hold the fort until he can steal away someone from another department or show. The level of personnel piracy around the studio amuses me. The needs ebb and flow as different shows reach different stages in their productions, so it's not uncommon for a single employee to have dipped his hand in the sweet honey pot that is film credit of most films we crank out.

The aforementioned "laid back" portions of the past couple weeks haven't come on studio time, but rather during the weekends in between. I enjoyed a birthday weekend in the magical kingdom (well, that was just one day... I really wouldn't consider the rest of LA to be all that magical*) with two of my favorite ladies, followed a couple weeks later by a fantastic visit to Angwin for a brief 'hello' with friends and other delinquents.

Any spare seconds I've been fortunate to have during this time has been devoted to working more at honing my skills in my quest to someday become a story artist. Perhaps towards the end of my time here I'll get brave enough to share some of the work I've been drawing up. No promises, though.

It's hard to believe there's only a month left down here. The part of me excited for and loving this experience is stunned at how fast it's gone. The part of me under the intense pain of being away from the familiar and loved ones (well, one loved one in particular) has me counting down the minutes.

Anyway, if it isn't completely apparent, there's very little I can be talking about here. I keep trying to think of ways to entertain and make reading this blog interesting, but alas telling you anything remotely interesting would probably result in something terrible happening to me (which, ironically, would probably be pretty interesting).

This coming weekend holds a couple fun highlights, one of which being the premiere of Monsters vs. Aliens on Sunday. For all of you PUC readers, I urge you to visit the Cameo Cinema in St. Helena, where the flick will be playing in 3D for two weeks beginning the film's opening day (March 27). Check that out: two shameless plugs for my employers in one. Hot. The other actually comes before that, with a special resume/interview workshop for interns put on my the studio's recruiters. I'm excited for the opportunity to fine tune my portfolio and resume, you know, just in case I decide to take a stab at some other major animation studio that isn't in LA... just sayin'...

Some exciting things are in the works for next week, so I'll do my best to tell everything I can without enticing certain doom upon myself.

*unless you think traffic is magical, in which case LA should avoid witch trials and/or Bono's eyeliner: