Trollwind Journal

This is my journal on the things that interest me the most, including books and writing, Scandinavian myth and web design. It has been neglected over the last several months, but that ends now. As I get back into the groove of writing fiction again, this will take on the intended role of a writing journal, marking my progress as I work through writing a novel.

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Writing goes on hold

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Confirmed on Friday that I will be working extra hours for the next ten weeks as the company I work for got a huge client with a rush project.  It looks like I’ll be managing the majority of all our other clients and projects during that time.  I also found that I may be doing additional Flash and Flex work on the side for one of our clients.

What that means for my writing (and my marriage), is that I’ve got little spare time to do anything and I’ll be spending much of that working on the house and yard.  Unfortunately, I will have little time to blog and even less time to write something substantial, but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to post some of my Flashy things over the next several weeks.

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Introducing Grum

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

One of the problems I’ve had with working on my Flash skills outside of work is that I don’t have any graphic assets that are interesting to me to animate.  There are only so many different color balls that I can bounce around the screen or rotate.  Last week, I decided to change that.

I’ve been playing around with a character library for some Flash animations that I want to put together.  I’m only a few hours into making the library in Illustrator, but I’ve got one character fleshed out with some basic facial expressions.  In the next week I want to create a backdrop for a scene and some rudimentary arm and head movements.  So here is Grum:

Over the next couple of days, I’ll begin adding more views and maybe if I can find enough time this coming weekend to start animating.

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