GRADUATION!!!!

You read it right. I finally graduated from AnimationMentor.com! It was a great ceremony. I won't go on for too long on this post, but my wife and I flew out to beautiful San Francisco, California to attend. It was great to be able to make new AM friends and finally meet some of my classmates for the first time. I was part of AM's first class ever and because of work I had to take breaks between some of my quarters. Unfortunately for me, all of my old classmates (ex. David Sloss, Gordana Fersini, and Chris Caufield) have graduated a long time ago.

The ceremony was great. No really! I will just say this...Pete Doctor was our commencement speaker! For those of you who don't know him, he was THE director of "Monsters Inc" from Pixar. He also is responsible for some of the most creative animated short films I have ever had the pleasure of viewing (try to find them because they are damn good). One other great aspect of it all was the opportunity to actually meet some of the mentors in person. Rick O'Conner (ILM), Victor Navone (Pixar), and Jason Scheifler (Dreamworks) to name a few.

Overall it just felt great to wrap up school (my wife is the happiest of all) . From now on I will have to learn from experience (which is great). I have learned so much at AnimationMentor and there is still so much more to learn.

I definitely wouldn't have been able to juggle AM and full time work without my wife! She is truly a blessing :)