{"id":812,"date":"2011-01-08T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=812"},"modified":"2011-01-08T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T21:09:19","slug":"boring-first-week-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Boring first week of the year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>First piece of news: Animation Mentor Semester 3 has started! \u00a0My mentor this semester is Mike Gasaway, who directed quite a few episodes of Jimmy Neutron. \u00a0We had our first class Q&amp;A on Tuesday, and it was awesome; I&#8217;m really looking forward to the semester.<\/p>\n<p>Second piece of news: I&#8217;m still studying Blender. \u00a0I&#8217;m now about half-way through the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0240814304?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0240814304\">Blender Foundations<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0240814304\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. \u00a0Chapter I&#8217;m currently on: surfacing. \u00a0That is, applying textures to surfaces and tweaking the way the renderer calculates how the light bounces off surfaces.  It&#8217;s really boring&#8230; uh&#8230; I mean interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, novel update: I&#8217;m still planning my untitled fantasy novel. \u00a0This morning I completed my outlines for Chapter 13. \u00a0I currently have 45 chapters planned, so I&#8217;m only about 29% complete. \u00a0This will take a long time, apparently, and I&#8217;m only in the planning phase.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a pretty uneventful week here.  *yawn*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! First piece of news: Animation Mentor Semester 3 has started! \u00a0My mentor this semester is Mike Gasaway, who directed quite a few episodes of Jimmy Neutron. \u00a0We had our first class Q&amp;A on Tuesday, and it was awesome; I&#8217;m really looking forward to the semester. Second piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[219,336,337,338,264],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-d6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}