Eye of the Dragon

Okay so I'm back. The problem of living in Ohio is that it has a really small design market, so finding worked even remotely related to my field has been next to impossible. Most of the more pertinent  job postings I've seen thus far are near the Great Lakes or Ohio rivers, more specifically Cleveland and Cincinnati.  While relocation for a job is almost a given for me, I don't fancy the idea of remaining in Ohio longer than I need to, just because the career opportunities I can find here really aren't what I had in mind.  Freelancing is more likely the only means I have of finding work, but even there the offerings are still slim. In other news, I reaffirmed my love for old fashion animation with the Nightmare before Christmas and I still firmly believe that to be among the best animated movies of all time, because I can appreciate the amount of worked needed to produce a full-length stop motion film.  I seem to remember a producer for Robot Chicken stating that is can take up to a week to produce ten seconds of footage, which is just mind-boggling to me. On opposite side of the coin, I had the opportunity to watch Alpha and Omega and the reviews were well-founded: it was bad.  Wolves given human names is bad enough, but I seriously doubt we'll ever see a wolf surfing on a log.  Aside from the bad script writing, the other thing I detested was how phony the fur textures looked. Really killed the realism for me.  That's it for now. Later!