So, a few friends back home have asked why it's taken me so long to get my site up. The answer is well, basically, I got myself involved in a bunch of projects for school that have taken up most of my free time at home. This was totally my choice, and I enjoy doing them, but at the end of the day, I found myself really spent, especially creatively. I'd work on them for a couple hours a day, after classes, and then find myself fleeing my computer in horror.

The first big project was a cartoon DVD that I helped the students produce. Essentially, I asked my senior class to write 10 scripts, each with a dialogue between two characters. They could pick any of the following as their characters: a little boy, a little girl, a monster, a robot, a vampire, or a member of Kat-tun (the Japanese equivalent to the Backstreet Boys). The students would write the scripts, spell-check them, and then dictate their scripts into a microphone. So, then I used their recorded voices and animated their scripts. The result is a 10 cartoon DVD that I gave to each of the students. (The total run-time is about 20 minutes). Since I had a bit of a deadline (4 weeks) and I was working full-time, the results do look a little rushed. A few of the cartoons came out well though. I'm including a few here, so you can check them out. I should say that my students are really great, and some of them really got into it. They threw some really hilarious and imaginitive bits into the mix, and their contributions really shine.

Also, these cartoons were done at a 29.97 frame rate for NTSC output. I haven't gone back and re-sequenced them for web output, so the lip-synching may be a bit off in the web version. If I have time, I may go back and re-render them for web. So, yeah, keep that in mind as you view these.