New computer, new Wacom, new hand and new everything else
Well, long time no post…
I guess I should begin this post by saying that I haven’t had any more wrist pains for the last months. I can pretty much say that the painful therapy (believe me… it WAS painful) and never using a mouse again did the trick. This brings me to the new wacom thing.
Well, it turns out that the tablet I had bought (a Genius PenSketch) was not as good as I expected it to be. We can say that after 8 months the damn thing just died on me. As you can imagine, that kinda made me rethink my life, so I ended up getting a wacom intuos. I keep thinking I should have gotten the intuos to begin with, but it’s not like I can simply go back in time.
A couple of months ago, my old computer also died. It seemed like a signal to get a new one (actually, I didn’t have a choice). I have a lot of new software in my hands, so I figured I should get a computer that would take advantage of all that. In the end I got a Dell Precision and it works perfectly.
I kept my old monitor so I am working on dual monitors now. The only “problem” is that the Sony monitor looks extremely uncool next to the Dell flat panel, hehe.
A few months ago, I came up with this “brilliant” idea to open an animation studio in my country. We are what you could call a “garage studio” (although we are still missing the garage…). However, even if we are small (3 guys and counting) we’ve come up with a few decent works. The difficult part is to sell something that few will buy, because animation is pretty new here. There are not even a handful companies that do that kind of work, and yet the amount of work is not THAT big (so no World of Warcraft Coke commercials for the time being…).
Another not so brilliant idea was me writing a book. Ever since I met James Faure Walker on SIGGRAPH 2006 I grew interested in writing. I’ve been working on that story for a little over a year, and after a lot of rewrites I am finally reaching a point where I DO like what I write. My word count so far is a little over 80 thousand words, and I still have 2 more chapters to go. Who knows, maybe you will see my book in a bookstore near you soon… or maybe not…
Well, that’s pretty much what I have to say as a “comeback”. See you around.