Last but not least...

Facebook has decided not to import automatically blog entries from blog sites. This should happen in the next week or so. This will be my last blog import into Facebook, but the blogging on this site will go on here - http://imaginativespark.blogspot.com/.

I forgot to mention when I went to Dreamworks the other day, I saw a bus sign with an oh so very aged and faded out logo. Right at the bottom of the sign is the Burbank Transit Logo that I designed some 15 years ago for a competition here. What a trip back into time! I never really saw this final product until that day... Oh well, time for a change!!

The building behind the bus sign is Imagineering... in case you are all wondering. :D

Whaaaa - taaaaahh!!!

It's been 52 days.

Yesterday, I popped into Dreamworks Studios as a guest and got beat up by a Panda! The place houses about 12oo creative talents from the many various art forms and it was so amazing to see how life moves on the "campus". I was even that close to seeing the Concept Art for a couple of new movies along the pipeline... way cool! :D

And just diagonally across from Dreamworks Studios on Flower Street is... Imagineering.

A Day in the Life...

I began assisting Karl for the recording of his in-class lectures. These will be hosted online for anyone is interested. The seminar I attended is called Story Beats: Drawing Character moments that show story sequence. And my... what a valuable class! :D

I was able to pop in and out of Woodbury between the seminar and night class to say Hi to former classmates and Deans during the Graphic Design 80th anniversary celebrations yesterday. Good to see Mr Bill Keeney, my former dean, who lives in the south of France now with his wife. What a life!

The official Imagineering Day session on Thursday (14 Oct) was packed! The only thing I got out of it was how big the company is. Too big! Ha ha...

Homework is pouring in... putting on my busker's hat and doing the juggling thing again!

Just Pas-sing by...

And so I have arrived in Pasadena! It's been a week or so.

I will be taking a bunch of classes from a couple of schools in the vicinity. So much has happened in the last week while settling down, I figured I should just start blogging about my journey and not procrastinate.

Today, I met some interns from Imagineering for dinner. It was at Burbank's JB's and even though the session was short, at least I finally made contact with someone inside of the company. :D All this happened while at my painting class at the Animation Guild. My classmate there, who is also a Woodbury Alumni, hooked me with them - her former classmates. The connections are happening a whole lot faster than my attempt in 2007. WOW!! :D

Dinner ended, everyone had their appointments, so I decided to pop by the monthly meeting at the Animation Nation on 2006 Magnolia. Today's speaker is a true caricaturist who started from scratch. During the course of the 2.5 hour session, I was introduced to the vast array of work that spans his 19-year career which resulted in the loads of philosophies for my downloading.

My take home for the evening is to "put my stuff out for all to see". For a long time, I've kept works in the vault just because I feel I'm not ready for the world. Well, this blog (that's now connected back to Facebook... again) has been switched "on".

So here I am, sharing with the world my roller coaster adventures towards my dream...

Evening with Stephen Silver