There’s a couple new drawings in my “other work” section. I had a really good semester of life drawing, so I expect I’ll be adding a few more in next week when I get my portfolio back. I still haven’t updated my reel, and I’m not exactly sure when I’ll be able to; the games I’ve been working on haven’t been released yet. Hopefully I’ll at least have the new dialogue shot I’m working on up in the next couple of weeks.

It has just come to my attention that there’s a bit of a hitch in IE6 that causes my left hand column, site navigation and all, to go wandering down to the bottom of the page. Please be patient while I track down the problem, or get your self a non-Microsoft browser. Firefox is my personal favorite. In the meantime, please enjoy RobotJohnny’s take on the situation:

There was some site downtime today while I manually updated to the newest Wordpress version. One day WP’s automatic update feature will work. Heck, I’d start paying for WP if they could promise me that.

I did a quick update on the design section today. I liked the more conversational tone of the old page, but I just wasn’t getting it updated frequently enough. So I’ve changed it into another gallery page. I’ll be doing another WP update soon, so hopefully that will also allow me to remove some of the rough edges on the gallery interface.

In case you are wondering why all comments on this blog are held for approval before being published, my Siggraph post from the summer received 14 spammer posts just this week. So I’ll be keeping the comment holds on, despite the amusing qualities of page-long lists of links to “simpson’s porn.”

I spent today working on this site, as the most recent Wordpress update caused some problems. Mostly I have everything patched back together (I even fixed the Internet Explorer problem from 2 posts back) however the css is still only partially cleaned up, and the slideshow option in my ‘Other Work’ section is broken and will likely remain so until the plugin author finishes moving to his new flat and writes a fix. Please let me know if you are finding anything weird going on, keeping in mind that the top of the page says “character animator” and not “web developer” for a reason, heh.

So to make up for a lack of functionality I’ve added content, specifically fleshing out the ‘Other Work’ section and getting more ready to post- you’ll be seeing many updates to the ‘Design’ and ‘Reel’ sections very soon.

Have a safe and happy new years everyone! Now excuse me, I have to go seriously celebrate the end of ‘08.