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Ace and Aqua is in BEST IN THE SW!l!! Please don’t for get to leave good comments here! I hope I do well in the festival! All good comments will help me :D!

Steve

Indeed I am. Recently starting as a freelance animator for Animax Entertainment, I find myself extremely busy. Animating for them is great! The cartoon I’m working on is great, it’s funny, designs are beautiful, and what’s better than doing what you love? I didn’t realize how busy I would be animating on this show. I try and wake up at 10 and then end at 6 with a break but sometimes it’s just too hard getting distracted.

Over the summer I’m coming to california. I’m going to be pitching ideas, visiting Cal Arts, and then whatever else I can find doing. Not to mention, still animating while I’m there. Deadlines people, deadlines!

I have these 3 ideas that I will be pitching ( as you see in the image ontop ). I’ve been writing the pitch-bibles for them but I still don’t know if they’ll be done in time. I have 2 of the ideas completely written out, but then comes the art work which takes equally as much time to do- and I haven’t started that yet. I have only acouple weeks to get things done. Here’s the list of what needs to be accomplished incase anyone is interested.

1) Write the pitchbook for my action idea
2) Create the art work, and design new characters for the Ace & Aqua pitch-book
3) Design all the characters for the action show, and then add them to backgrounds my good man Elliot Byrne did for me…they look spectacular by the way. Will post them once I pitch.
4) Design all the characters for my skunk show.
5) Make an animatic of my action idea powerpoint so that a very talented musician knows how long the music will play for.
6) Oh yeah, and I’m animating 10-6 each day which is more than exhausting and time consuming.

I really gotta get on it… wish me luck :{ ( nervous smiley face )

-Steve

Needed to just take a break from animating and relax outside in the warm weather, and draw. These trees are outside my house, along with tons more, and they’re like a border between my backyard, and a golf coarse.

-Steve