Category: Blog
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Introducing… The Lahore Fort 2.0
“Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.”― Rachel Hauck, Once Upon a Prince After two decades of meandering through various art media and exploring a number of philosophical avenues, I seem to have come full circle back to a project that has suddenly evolved into a whole new animal. But before I…
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Cultural Appropriation vs Representation
Cultural representation is fast becoming the Topic of the Century. Everywhere we look, we see calls for representation, inclusivity and diversity in media. This is such an important movement in our history because it is making people of all cultures aware of the invisible price they pay for not participating in a global conversation. To…
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The Broken Line of Productivity
The videos are starting to come up, and the art work is building. I’m super excited and at the same time I feel like I should be producing more. I’ll get there, I always do, but it’s interesting how the productivity graph is never a nice, predictable line. Some of this must be from having…
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Pre-production Ideas/Concepts
It makes no sense to learn a program or build a new workflow without first creating an idea that you want to implement it on. After all, a theory is no good unless it has been tested and proven in some way. And what better way to establish a good workflow than to throw it…
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Modeling and Shading
Practice is essential in the process of learning a new software. Now that I’ve been working in Blender more regularly, I am finding it easier to think like the software needs me to, and my internal Maya rumblings are being pushed further out of focus, so I can create with fewer hiccups. There are still…
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History’s Winners and Losers
If history is written by the “winners”, then where do the “losers” go to discover their past? Identity cannot be created/felt/experienced without a true understanding of one’s past, and if the past is brutally slanted against you, your only recourse is to internalize that loathing and damage yourself in every way possible. As a teenager,…
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That Blender Donut
I’ve been putzing around in Blender for a while but of course, it’s hard to get good at anything without practice. So, I decided to go out and find a few tutorials on the web to lead me through some basic exercises and really help me find the buttons. I found this great series by…
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Schedule
Getting through a pile of research in a pre-defined amount of time feels much like planning and completing a thesis project, but with more grown-up end results. After all, a sabbatical is designed to allow a faculty member to refresh their knowledge, develop new ideas and create in ways that cannot be done around the…
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Introducing Myself
Animator, professor, nerd-who-likes-to-learn-about-anything. I was a happy nerd in school, accepted by my peers, active in drama, debate, art contests, student government and (for a short time) track and field. I loved art, I loved physics, and I loved math. As a teenager planning my college applications, I agonized over which route to take: science,…
