Over the last eight months I've been teaching myself Autodesk Maya. I've nearly completed my first animated short using the program, a 1 minute, 20 second film featuring a troll kid climbing a large tree. Learned a lot doing it, and now feel confident enough that I know enough about how Maya's animation tools work that I can experiment a bit. I've always been a big fan of Japanese animation. It has a certain "snap" to it, a certain intensity to the movement that American shows and movies seem to avoid in favor of fluidity. You can see how the American penchant for fluidity affected Japanese animated films in the early days, like in Toei's "P

I read a good deal of books being an English major, but for fun I mostly read fantasy novels. My gallery currently contains tributes to Joe Abercrombie's "The First Law" and Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings" and will soon have an image of Kvothe from "The Name of the Wind". So I thought I'd go through some of the series I've read and give my two cents that probably no one cares about but what the heck imma do it anyway! Oh by the way if you like any of these series you'll probably also enjoy Berserk. And vice versa. Just putting that out there. George R. R. Martin- A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: Martin's epic fantasy series is the one you he

https://www.younganimal.com/berserk/cm/index.html New Berserk series. Done by Studio 4C. Looks like the rumors from a year ago had some grounding. I have been waiting for years for this. Let's hope it meets expectations!