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http://hnovotny.tumblr.com/ New portfolio website! I'm still trying to figure out getting a domain name, but it has all my updated works and a bit about my animation process.

Did a summer internship with Professor Valentine teaching Intro to 3d, where I mostly helped the undergraduate freshmen learn maya for the first time. It was a really good experience I think, working with students. Teaching is something I want to do some day, and it was good to get a feel for the other side of the classroom haha.

A few good things have happened! I was commissioned by University of Georgia to animate a logo for their movie theater. I worked pretty hard on it, and it came out fairly well for my first real animation gig! It's kind of odd to think that my work is now being shown in an actual movie theater, and will continue to do so for at least another few years.





More good news: I was approached to do an actual TV commercial for a local construction company here in savannah, and it pays pretty well! I haven't done much work on it yet, but once the pre-production is done, it should be fairly quick to get done.

As far as SCAD life goes... it's been an incredibly quiet quarter so far, mostly due to the fact that I'm only taking extended thesis right now. Basically I can work from home on my thesis, but it's been so nice to just work my part time jobs and actually make a little bit of money that it's been hard to work on anything at all. I'm thinking I will continue through next quarter and finish up in March. I hate postponing graduation, but as long as I'm not paying oodles of $ for classes, I'll be ok.

I have, however, spent a lot of time on doing game animations for my reel after I get home from work. It feels good to have something solid to show people instead of all this conceptual stuff or other things that have nothing to do with what kind of job I want to go for.

Gonna see Book of Life and Big Hero 6 soon! Hope it's as good as everyone says it is. There was a dinner get-together tonight at Wangs II since Mirror is going home in the next few days. :( It was a lot of fun hanging out with all my grad friends, though I'm sad this will be the last time most of us will be together most likely. Everyone has new exciting careers they're starting soon and for me too, it feels like this chapter of my life is fast coming to a close.