So it begins.

This is the first day of my blogging experience so there’s not much of the project to see yet. That will come later. Hopefully, not too much later. Usually when I work on a project I don’t let anyone see my process until I’m almost done. I tend to be very secretive of what I’m working on, but I wanted to do something a little different with this project. I wanted to know how I would feel letting others view how I work and have anyone see all of my mistakes as I make them. I have to say that it is the prospect of having my faults and missteps on display that frighten me the most. After I’ve completed a project, it’s easy to talk about how it was done once all of the hard work has been completed. It’s kind of like those behind the scenes DVD’s. They make everything look as if all they had to do was press a few buttons and drink a few cappuccino’s and then out comes Toy Story or Ice Age or whatever other computer animated movie that happens to be out right now. They never really tell you about the obscenely long hours that the artists spend creating everything. They never show you the mistakes. They never show you the emotional breakdowns either.

I’m not going to go through any emotional breakdowns, but I will show you my doubts and how I get around them. I have until April to finish this project in time for SIGGRAPH 2011. I will finish on time, but what I need to make sure of, is that it’s the best animation that I can produce, otherwise it won’t be worth showing.