Connections and dreams...

So... I joined Twitter.

Anyone that wants to follow my crazy antics or wants to pass along crap to me. Feel free to add/follow me (twitter.com/incrediblejack).

I've been reading and practicing my photoshop skills and practicing my sketching abilities. I've almost completely given up on drawing humans. I can copy just about any human figure from a picture or the likes.. but creating my own is somehow impossible for me. It's fine for me though, I rather like scenery. Urban environments come to me easy and they are fun to draw. I can't wait to get a scanner so I can start working with them in photoshop or maya.

That leads me to what I'm doing now. I've decided to go to DigiPen for Game Design. It took me awhile to decide what I wanted to do, but in the end I had to figure out what was wrong with my life to begin with. A lack of passion. I've always half assed everything; relationships, projects, skills. I've pretty much narrowed the issue down to not caring about anything. The one constant though was always my desire to create worlds for people to exist in. Sometimes that flowed over into my day to day life causing problems. So I've decided to take that passion and put it into a career. I love gaming, more importantly I love creating experiences for people that I game with. Originally, I wanted to be a programmer. And I was damned good at the programming I learned. But that's not the creation process I'm interested in. After working with Maya and starting to get my brain flowing with story writing and sketching, I finally know that in order to have a good life I need to stop worrying about which job pays the most and instead start worrying about how passionate and happy I am about doing it.
I've burned alot of bridges on my journey to that conclusion, so now it's time to start designing and building new ones, as scared as I am to do that.