THE REBIRTH · 16 FEBRUARY 2009
After I finished work on HALO:ODST cinematics and decided to work for ID SOFTWARE as a full time animator, I worried a bit that I might miss feature animation. While I love working at ID on games, this seemed like the perfect time to bring back work on this short. At this point I put together the framework for what is now this site as a way to track my progress. I began by just making a mockup of the basic menu layout and shot page - the heart of the site - and then converted it into a working website. This would evolve over the years and there is still much to do, but making this site really helped me focus on getting shots done and hopefully one day finish this short. Progress can be slow at times, but it's very easy to see where I've been and where I'm going. When I first put this site together, only one and a half shots had been animated. As I write this in JUNE 2011, the entire hallway sequence has been animated, the set built, the characters surfaced, and at least one lighting and comp pass on every shot has been done. Not quite the pace I had hoped for, but this is the fartherst I've been...

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