In Early August, I went out to sunny San Diego for the annual Siggraph convention (I was armed with free tickets by the good folks at www.renderosity.com. It seems the hot issues now are 3D displays and motion capture without the need for a mocap stage.
The truth, however, is that I was more concerned with what would happen if I was offered a job out here. I was safe in the assumption that I was shopping around a vastly superior demo reel than last year in Boston, so it was not out of the realm of possibility. This scared me, however... what would I do? Would I move out here and follow work?
The other side of the issue made me equally uneasy. If I got no response whatsoever, would that mean I was no good, that I had made no progress where it really mattered? I did get a response, -one of them- from an automotive visualization company, but that has since fallen through.)
Since then, I have completed a freelance job here in Chicago, so things look pretty good. The question still haunts me, though... Am I working hard enough? Everyone around me says I work too much... but I need to decide for myself.
The good news is that San Diego is absolutely gorgeous. I had the chance to see it on a trolley... a trolley I avoided paying for by hopping in a cab after I was asked to buy a ticket and escaping to the airport, to be in the air an hour later--a perfect getaway.
The beach was amazing, just what I needed. The ocean felt great, the 78 degree weather was perfect, and the change of scenery was just what I needed.
Well, I'll just leave it at that. I have more updates coming up, so I don't want this to take up too much of my blog space.
