Hello!
Welcome to my blog, or rather my chronicle of my latest personal project entitled "Weakly Animated".
In short, this is a blog documenting and displaying my latest efforts to increase my skills as an artist in the 21st century. Essentially, I plan to create 1 short animation or art project every week. But perhaps you should know a little more about me before I start.
My name is David Hixon, and I am an artist and geek extraordinaire. I am married (sorry ladies). I recently graduated college with a BA in Digital Art and Animation. Shortly afterward, I started to work for the National Geographic Society as an "imaging technician". Thanks partially to the economic down-turn, and partially to a struggling photography/magazine industry, I found myself unemployed after 2 years of dedicated work. I have been struggling to find work since then, and have become a Freelance Image and Design Specialist in the meantime. I have decided to focus on continuing my education in the digital arts and animation. While I work on applying to various colleges, looking for a job, and keeping up my workload with my clients, I am going to also be working on several web comics (via Tangent Artists), and a new series of animations. That is where this blog comes in...
I will be using this blog to chronicle the various art projects I am involved with, but more importantly, to log my experiences and updates at making 1 animation every week. The quality of this animation is not important, some will be very low quality, others much higher. I do plan to make several of these available in HD, as well as online via YouTube.
I plan to use this project as a way of working out some of the aspects of animation that continue to allude me, as well as to increase my productivity and my portfolio of animations. This is also a perfect way to experiment on various techniques and styles, as well as fine-tune the process to come up with a fast and efficient way to animate. I plan to use all the resources I have available to me now, which includes traditional 2D animation, Flash-based animation, 3D animation, etc.
For many of these animations, I will be collaborating with others to complete them. My brother will be helping me with the writing in many of these, my wife will be helping me in some of the animation process as well as with maintaining the site, my sister will be helping me with some of the art, my friends will be assisting wherever they can, and my PS3 will be assisting in the "distraction" - I mean "research" category. I am always willing to collaborate with others, and if you are interested, drop me a line, but as you can see, I am trying to keep myself busy so don't expect a fast reply.
I hope that you will support me in my attempt to become a better artist, and achieve my dreams of directing and animating my own stories and ideas.
Thank you,
David Hixon
