A Long Awaited Update!

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, so here’s an here’s an update.

We moved to the Bay Area! And we couldn’t be happier. It’s really great. The weather and clean air are much more our speed than LA was, and we’re a block from the beach. Yeah! I’ve already enjoyed moving into the industry up here, going to both Visual Effects Society and ASIFA events, including an ”Indiana Jones 4” screening and presentation at ILM, and a “Kung Fu Panda” screening in San Francisco.

I took a few months off after leaving Nickelodeon to get ready to move, move, and get settled. However, even in my time off I was busy as a Campus Mentor for AnimationMentor.com, and freelancing for Nickelodeon and WildBrain, my first re-introduction to a studio in the Bay Area. I’ve been helping them on a Nickelodeon show called “Bubble Guppies”, that I not-coincidentally worked on the pilot for in my past job. So, it’s been a mix of free time and moments of business, but it’s been a good break.

Today I started at Electronic Arts as an Animation Director. Unfortunately I can’t say much about what I’m working on, but it is cartoony, so it’s right up my alley. Some people have said “oh, you’re going BACK to EA”. Well, considering it’s a different building, different group, different role, different project, and only one person I worked with before is still there, it doesn’t really feel like the same place. But I think it will be good. EA suffered a lot of bad press in the past, but when I was there it was an amazing place to work.

Other recent highlights include hanging out with lots of good friends, having friends from LA visit us already, going to 2 Giants games, becoming friends with a former fellow Nickelodeon employee who ended up at WildBrain, going on vacation to the beach even though we live at the beach, and enjoying the ocean daily.

When I said I was leaving Nickelodeon a few people asked, “Are you crazy?!” But I gotta say, life right now is pretty sweet…