Deadline Day

After being back at work for a few days it occurred to me that term starts soon and I have a deadline to meet with the 3D character I'm working on. It'snothing but deadlines at the moment. I'm ramping up my freelance work to hopefully hasten the day when I can go totally freelance again, which I'm shooting for this Christmas or thereabouts. So anyway this 3D work...

Dean Cook, an old mate of mine from way back, and we're talking before I moved to the West country over 14 years ago here, who I used to do a lot of writing web and graphics work for got in touch a while back and asked me if I could make a 3D character for a client of his. He'd actually been looking for me and finally tracked me down, but I cover my tracks on the Internet so as to minimise the dreaded SPAM,so it was a bit of detective work. Not having been using my 3D program Lightwave 3D for the longest time I was afraid it had been so long I wouldn't know how to use it. So I did an all nighter and got the thing pretty much done.

But it wasn't finished and I was conscious that time was marching on so I took today off and worked all day from 8am till now to get it done and it looks pretty good. I can't show you any of it because it's commercial work and the client hasn't even seen it yet.

Actually not using the program for a long time and coming back to it was a really good thing as it turned out. I watched a tutorial video (from my friends Desktop Images) and relearned it from scratch. I learned a good few cool new habits, and forgot all my totally entrenched ways of working with the old version of the program.

I also reacquainted myself with some good old friends in the process, as I asked a few questions on the Lightwave forum, and some people were like "Phil glad to see you welcome back" which touched me, really. One of them, Ben Vost, an old chum from back in the Amiga days, is now actually working for NewTek in Paris, so I hooked up with him and we might be doing some work. Cross fingers.

Anyway check out the picture (click on it to go to the original page) and laugh as Lee Harvey Oswald jams along with Jack Ruby...

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