Almost three years ago now I was overweight, unhappy, and my life priorities were slightly out of whack. Plain and simple I had let myself go. I was at a crossroads on the path to awesomeness with two basic directions that led to very different versions of myself. Do I keep going down this path of living an unhealthy life without exercise/diet? Or do I make a stand and take charge of my life? I chose to be healthy again.
It was strange because my entire life up until I graduated college I had been very athletic. I played baseball for 13 years made it to the varsity team in high school. Then even after high school I continued to work out and stay fit. Somewhere in juggling my time between school, work, and video games I had slacked off at the gym. In 2009 I began my work outs again and it all led up to this… the Chicago Marathon.
Let me just say, running 26.2 miles is no joke…
I have no shortage of demo’s recorded of me running around as spy. It’s just a matter of finding the time to render them all out. Also, throw in the fact that the spy FPS view is lame when he’s changing his disguise; clouds of smoke cover the screen. To solve that problem I had to render out the same video in 3rd person view and edit it everything together. In the end I think it came out pretty cool. I might try to make another one soon, we’ll see.
Google+, I was doing it wrong. I’ve decided to treat it more like twitter and have it open to the world. There are a ton of amazing people out there sharing, and you should too.
I started following a bunch of other amazing game designers and artists. A great example of this would be this polycount circle.
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The last two years of my life have been filled with many ups and downs. The only thing that remained constant was how awesome of a ride it’s been. Coming from 2009 to 2010 I had a great job, I made a ton of new friends, I moved into a great place in Irvine, and I felt really good about myself because I was constantly running/working out.
At the beginning of 2010 I found myself unemployed and looking for work. During my new found abundance of free time, I continued to improve my skills. I began creating a new demo reel for all the work I did for God of War. But the more I worked on my reel, the more I felt the producer within me kicking in again. This was something that I had not felt since back in college when I took on the role of a producer for nearly every one of my class projects.
