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clay, charcoal and messy polygons

Daniel Lim — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:44:09 +0000

No, I’m not jacking in animation to become a traditional artist! I just thought it was about time I officially put up a link to my girlfriend’s new blog:

http://messypolygons.blogspot.com/

(WARNING: May contain arty nude people!)

Marie is actually coming back from her 10 months in Florence, Italy rather soon, but doubtless it will continue to be updated as finishes new work, but it’s beautiful stuff — you should check it out!

http://unknownborderlands.blogspot.com/

Losing it…

Daniel Lim — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:37:02 +0000

I’ve been very slack at updating my blog in the past few weeks. In fact I’ve been a bit slack in terms of my work too and it’s bothering me. I’ve been working for quite a few hours every day, but I’m just not being terribly efficient at the moment. I think I need to start getting up earlier (and going to bed earlier). I need to try and be more focussed; getting more work in done in the same amount of time (which, at my current rate of productivity is easily doable).

This sensation is actually pretty typical. In at least the past two classes I’ve had “dips” during the middle few weeks of the term where I’ve felt bad about either about my work or my effort levels. It’s something I’ve always broken out of so I don’t expect it to last long, I just needed to tell someone :)

I’ll try and get my recent work and critiques posted first thing tomorrow!

Restoration Complete!

Daniel Lim — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:57:10 +0000

Right, I’ve finally sorted everything out on here. For safety’s sake I actually backed-up everything, took everything down, reinstalled WordPress from scratch and put the database with all the posts and all that jazz back on. It took quite some time, more than I would have liked but it was a necessary evil and I’m feeling good about having got it all out of the way!

I’ve also reposted and backdated all the posts that I lost when the site got hacked (that’ll teach me to leave huge gaping security holes and not back-up regularly!) so everything should be up to date now. Unfortunately some of the posts are perhaps not as visually appealing as they could be (a whole load of pictures/video and a few lines of text can look at little busy at the best of times) but yesterday evening I really enjoyed spending some time writing about last week’s work and I definitely want to try and set aside some time each week to do it properly. I really feel the need to write about what games I’m playing at the moment as well… Who knows, some of you might even find it interesting!

Restoration Begins,

Daniel Lim — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:28:14 +0000

Time to start replacing all the AM work posts I lost when I got hacked last week. I’ll back-date them as appropriate!

Reboot

Daniel Lim — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:08:43 +0000

Hello all! Here we go again. I’ve forgotten how many iterations of this site have come and gone since it started, but “all this has happened before and will happen again” as they say on BSG. The past 12 weeks have been incredibly busy for me as I’ve started Animation Mentor and I’ve been meaning to sort this place out that whole time so you can check out the work I’m doing. Hopefully I’ll be dedicated enough to actually update it at least every week!

So as I come to the end of a very successful, if tough, first term, I’d like to share with you all the stuff I’ve done. I think I’m going to backdate the posts, so apologies if things appear wrong or out of sync! Just leave a comment or send me an email. Please bear with me as I have to collate and post 12 weeks worth of stuff!

Oh and don’t worry about the generic theme – I’ll be sorting out all the graphics and visual niceties as and when I can!