Before the beginning…

My new year’s resolution for 2013 was to get serious about learning computer animation. I’d already messed around in Blender for a couple of years after Sintel came out in 2010. I’d spent many hours absorbing the wisdom of Blender Cookie, Blender Guru and others. After spending nearly 20 years with music, writing and cartooning as my creative outlets, animation was my next thing. It was a natural progression which would make use of my technical mind and my creative mind. It wasn’t that I wanted to become a professional filmmaker necessarily – it was simply time to give animation an honest try and see what I could come up with.