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Élégie / Massenet

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Early 3D shenanigans.

The exact chronology is fuzzy to say the least, but in no particular order, there were three major events in the late ‘90s that led to my getting into 3D design and animation.

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Ave Maria / Bach & Gounod

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1999 in living color.

It used to be that Windows was a DOS program that, like any DOS program, the user could quit. The line began to blur on the release of Windows 95, which inverted the user’s relationship to DOS by introducing “MS-DOS Mode,” a functionally real version of DOS that was actually more of a decoy or a shell. By Windows 98, we began to see the true zombification of DOS into a command prompt for doing Windows things, and our beloved DOS-native applications started to tire under the burden of competing with our fancy new 32-bit lifestyle.

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Getting into solo roleplaying.

The tabletop RPG scene has always been on my periphery, beginning with a stalled-out session zero of 2E Dungeons & Dragons in high school, of which the most memorable part was spent listening to my buddy attempt to explain THAC0. Fast forward to May 2025, and on the heels of a ninety-two hour playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3, I thought it would be so awesome to give the hobby a proper try.

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I learned to code in 1996.

First it was a branching choose-your-own-adventure situation built with Automenu, but when that wasn’t enough, my father gave me a two inch thick book on programming in QuickBASIC and I got to work.

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The obligatory AI post.

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In 1991, a world of anthropomorphic cats needed a hero.

… So I made dozens. What started with an innocent second-grade assignment, to think about two different animals and draw what it might look like if they were combined, became a years-long, nigh-pathological worldbuilding exercise.

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Why make this website?

Many months ago, I started asking myself what I needed or wanted from a web presence. Was a grid of case studies and a nice headshot enough? Was there more going on in my life that felt fun to publish? At the same time, I found myself contemplating some scarier questions about the trajectory of my career as an animator. Was I still passionate enough about the work? How much of my identity does my work deserve to occupy? Is pushing keyframes around still joyful, or is there a higher platform in this space to which I ought to climb?

It’s my blog!