One last blog before GDC! Chances are if your reading this its because you got spammed with my card or you collect garbage. I hope to have a full recap afterwards in some sort of form, but I don’t expect to update this during the thick of things! If you want to get together just let me know, my phone is always on!

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I guess updating my blog as the year transitions from 08 to 09 is a pretty lame thing to do, but i have no excuses. A huge portion of my life’s direction could easily be conjured within the next few months and that gets you thinking. In the mean time, before GDC now is the time to scrounge up business card designs, settle on what style of portfolio I will bring with me and hopefully produce a few more things of artistic quality in the mean time.

Hopefully i’ll get a last minute entry in before i head out to San Francisco in regards to my plans and schedule at GDC.

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My ticket for the 2009 Game Developers Conference has been obtained and travel plans are being set in motion. I will be attending the conference for its full duration and hope to glean whatever I can both in terms of information and contact building even if the career part doesn’t go as planned. Im still being tossed about in the waves of time management in relation to art. I really hope I can get some knock-out pieces done within the next few months, however!

If anybody has suggestions pertaining to how I should present my portfolio I would be much appreciated. At this point I don’t know if I should bring bound portfolios or lose images in a binder…

If anybody plans on attending let me know - I’d love to meet people there - in the mean time, I suspect I wont’ update until GDC approaches.

As most college graduates will tell you, the first few months post graduation can be pretty rough. For me, the apathy that struck me manifested itself in a complete absence of any real work done artistically for nearly 4 months. Being coaxed along by freelance work, I am now free of that trap, at least for the time being.

No longer contending with my lack of drive, my plans for the future are as follows:

-Travel to the San Francisco area in March to attend the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Because it’s easier for me to assume I won’t have a career by then, this is my next concrete attempt to show somebody what I am capable of, and being able to talk to somebody in person I feel is an advantage I need in order to express how I work and how I think. So in the mean time, I will be filing my time with freelance and hitting refresh on my inbox, looking for open positions I can fire off applications at.

-In close proximity to the conclusion of GDC09 I have a larger decision to make. Assuming again I don’t get a job or internship (in order to validate further planning) I will either be attending the concept design academy, or I’ll try entering a company via QA. This will require somebody in HR who will hold the job for me as I relocate myself from Omaha Nebraska, for a position usually open to locals.

In the mean time, I will continue to juggle my job at Target and my pseudo career of commissions.

On an oddly creepy note, i wrote a blog entry exactly a year and 12 hours ago...