Next Year in Boston

So much for SIGGRAPH 2005... the deadline for submissions was yesterday. It was a tough blow -- since I volunteered to help the jury during deliberations last year, I've had my sights set on this festival, determined to make the deadline and try to use everything I know to get a piece in the show. I guess I felt like it would be a way for me to come out of the gates as a filmmaker, rather than as "just" an animator. I've been trying to shed that whole "vague generalist" feeling since I started at CADA -- in fact, the main reason I'm in grad school to begin with is my determination to pick a decisive track as a short term goal and get there. Right now I want to jump into a job as an animator, not float around as an independent artist, at least until finances get back under control. But there's still that feeling of ownership over the entire process, not just the animation aspect.

On the positive side, Misha submitted Steamed, so I still have a film in for consideration. I don't have real high hopes for it, but hey, you never know. It may do well in the separate student competition -- and maybe I can get In Out done by that deadline.