Yo!

Just putting up a little post to see how everyone out there is doing. There hasn't been much activity on this here blog, and I thought I would just see if anyone still checks this thing out.

Happy Holidays!

Party.

Party/Picnic/Potluck in my town, Milpitas.

All of you guys are invited. It is located at Sinnott Park at the end of:

tahoe drive
milpitas, ca 95035

Partry from 3-8 pm. Hope to see you guys there!

More details at this link:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/tonybuirocks@yahoo.com/findmeajob

Last Class

For this Saturday I will be at class for anyone who wants any feedback on the Invisible Cities project. If there is anything else anyone has questions about such as portfolios, other assignments, or questions about the industry I can answer some of that.

This class is not required, it is just there if you want the help. If you could let me know if you'll be coming or not I would appreciate it.

Thanks guys!

class this saturday.

Hey Dela,

Is there a class this Saturday? I might not be able to make it, since I have to pick up some relatives coming into town that morning. Please let me know, thanks.

Nigel

Jaime's Shadow Puppeteers

Hi Dela, I want to thank you and Jeff so much for the mock interviews. It was very helpful and I learned a lot. I really appreciate your time and effort in making it like a real interview.

Here are my Shadow Puppeteers: Father and Son. They both work together traveling around entertaining the towns. The father, on the left, is an expert puppeteer and cares a lot about his craft/profession. He holds a shadow puppet with great care. He wants to pass down the skills to his only son. On the right is his son. His son means well but is clumsy, lazy, and goofy. He holds his shadow puppet the incorrect way and breaks it. He also wears a picture of his mother on his head wrap in her memory. In the middle is the Beast of Burden, Buddy. He is loyal and grew up with the shadow puppeteer family. He likes to have fun but can sometimes get into trouble too. He sometimes doesn't have patience for the shadow puppeteer's son and hates it when he sleeps on his back and drools (As seen in the story beat below) A smaller story beat depicts Buddy and the son knocking over the cart and getting yelled at by the shadow puppetmaster. Any critique would be great. Thanks.

Final Assignment

Here is the final assignment it is based on the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. This book is about a conversation between two men, one is a king and the other is describing to the king about cities he has seen on his many travels.

This is a more advanced project, based on how you approach it, as well as the subject. Originally I was going to use this as an example of how environment can influence the design of it characters. So the assignment was read about the environment and then design the people that inhabit that world.

For your final assignment I'm leaving the option up to you. Pick one city then based on the text, choose for yourself what you want to focus on. That can be characters, environments, props, moment scenes, or something else based on your portfolios focus. Please let me know which you are choosing to due so I can crit it appropriately.

Interviews

This weekend we will be holding mock interviews. It will be set up as close to the real thing as we can get it, so please treat this as a serious learning experience.

Each interview will be fifteen minutes, in order to get through the class. I have asked a friend and industry professional to join me during this process, so we will both be interviewing you. Please bring what you would bring to a real interview and dress how you feel is appropriate.

Below is the list of people who put their name up to be interviewed and the time of each interview. If for some reason this time does not work for you or I didn't get your name please let me know.

Lauren 10:00 - 10:15
Saro 10:15 - 10:30
Jaime 10:30 - 10:45
Nigel 10:45 - 11:00
Jens 11:00 - 11:15
Amie 11:15 - 11:30
Kelly 11:30 - 11:45
JP 11:45 - 12:00
Sarita 12:00 - 12:15
Janet 12:15 - 12:30