parker’s desk

Well…really more like “seize the knowl­edge,” but I haven’t a damn clue how to say that and I’m far too lazy this close to 2am to try look­ing it up.  Carpe knowledgeumisis…ellium.  There. 

I’ve long been the self-taught kind of per­son, typ­i­cally once I learn some­thing I know it well and I’m happy to seek out answers to ques­tions I have.  I’d say about 95% of every­thing I know about 3d mod­el­ing, ani­ma­tion, CG work, and art in gen­eral has been self taught.  While I’m proud of the accom­plish­ment, I guess, I cer­tainly don’t mean to make it sound like I claim genius or supe­ri­or­ity in that way.  I just wanted to know stuff and knew no one else that knew it, so I took it on myself.  Here and there along the way I met some great tutors that more or less opened doors for me that I had never con­ceived opening.

Not brag­ging, there’s a point to this.

So know as an almost 4 year vet­eran of the video game indus­try with this moun­tain of knowl­edge I’ve gone through a lot to learn, prac­tice and con­stantly try to improve — I see I’ve never taken that approach out­side of this trench I seem to be in.  It’s only ever been for film or art/game devel­op­ment.  It’s con­fus­ing to come to this con­clu­sion, but it truly is there.

For exam­ple, I have always wanted to learn how to make prop repli­cas.  Sculpt, say, a Star Wars character’s armor or hel­met or weapon and make a cast of it, maybe crank out a few copies for friends as gifts or sell to pay for the sup­plies.  I’ve always wanted to learn how to make music…playing the gui­tar would be pretty awe­some, I’d set­tle for that.  I’ve tried my hand at sewing a cou­ple of times and done well with it but never fol­lowed that up.

It’s just weird, I can’t seem to fig­ure out why it is I can go gung-ho to learn­ing about one field and yet stand there hop­ing some mys­ti­cal fin­ger will reach down and flick me in the head and I’ll sud­denly know it all — which would sure as hell be awe­some — for other things I’m at least semi-passionate about learning.

I’m fixin’ to change that, though I’m not cer­tain enough about it to actu­ally say I’m doing it yet.  I asked a friend of mine today if he knew of any prop build­ing or cast mak­ing classes and he gave be some great leads and links to videos I can pur­chase and that was one fan­tas­tic start right there.

And on a side note…if you haven’t checked out Mum­ford & Sons yet — I com­mand thee!

G’night folks!

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