Until I did my bi-yearly hard drive purge, I’d forgotten that in 2006, I was obsessed with learning 3D animation. “Learning” is the wrong word. I didn’t intend to “learn” 3D animation in any systematic way, I just happened to download a bunch of 30 day trials and decided that this would be what I was into for the next 30 days.

As you might assume, looking at how things have turned out by the beginning of of 2010, I never quite got beyond the “30 day trial” skill level using any of these programs. There was too much patience involved.

In addition to over a month of wasted time, I also got a hard drive full of animation tests (render tests, camera movement tests, lighting tests, texture tests) that I can show for myself. All-in-all, they’re mostly inept, glitchy and artless, but there are a few that more interesting than others. These are those:

Created in Vue 5

Created in Mojo World

Created in Mojo World

Created in Vue 5

Tried to do something realistic. It took a whole lot of work for what it ended up looking like.

Upon reflecting, I guess the big question is, what’s the point of all of this? I think the answer is that there is no point.

If you find a better way to spend 30 days in 2010, let me know and I’ll do that instead.