This post is gonna be a short one, cause I stayed home all day today but some pretty noteworthy stuff happened.
Woke up at somethinng like 11 in the morning, found out Dad's sick with food poisoning. Probably the rice noodles he cooked for dinner last night but I had two helpings and was feeling fine. So he pretty much stayed home all day, watched golf, and slept. Went to the neighbours house for a massage too.
That's not the noteworthy stuff though. Going by Charina's email she just sent me yesterday, I planned to follow up on the companies I applied to. Big Sandwich told me if they hadn't contacted me by now, the situation was "mature". Aka "You're rejected." But the guy was friendly enough and told me to update my online portfolio and when I did, to keep them in the loop. Then I called Acronym Games, and some guy I was directed to sounded really shady. "Uh ... yeah, I'll go have a look at the resumes and uh ... see if they're a fit." So I just thanked him politely and hung up. Real shady. Action Pants forwarded me to a voicemail so I left my information and didn't hear back from them all day. I'll see if they call me next week.
And speaking of calling me next week, I followed up on the Bear Studios interview, spoke to Alex again (Rachel and Yuko both say he's a good friend of theirs), asked if they've made a decision. He says they've been really busy, which I expected, but to expect to hear from them next week. So I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for that one, but no sweat really if I don't get the job. I'm glad they even offered me an interview. Still, job is better than no job I guess.
Also talked to Trent in the morning. Poor guy can't find a job after being graduated for six months. I'm starting to get a little worried about him and if I get into be someone important enough to say who gets hired, I will definitely help out any friends I have in need of a job. Unfortunately right now, I'm in the same sinking boat.
So I went back to the Blue Castle website to see if they've updated their job openings and SURPRISE, they're hiring character artists for their "unannounced Action Title" aka Dead Rising II !!! Well rumors say its Dead Rising II but we'll see what happens. Anyway, this is the job I really want, the one I'm willing to pass up all other opportunities for and it came alot sooner than I thought.
I'm going all out on this one. This is the only job application I've actually prepared, and am giving it my all. In addition to submitting my resume, I put PDFs together, 1 for my 3D work and one for my drawings. I'm exhausting all my talents on this one - 3D characters, drawings, presented in a nice graphic design manner, and I'll probably even do one for my digital paintings, just to show the variety of work I'm capable of doing. I've also contacted Su and Jeremy to see if they're able to pull any strings for me and tomorrow, I'm seeing Charina to get all my assets prepared. I also plan on calling Rachel - or emailing her, haven't really decided yet - and letting her know I'm getting ready for this application and I don't want to screw up. I'm also thinking about emailing Rob and letting him know too.
This is a job to me. This is THE job, and knowing the kind of competition I'm bound to come up against, I need to use all my best 3D works, best drawings, best paintings, incorporate my best graphic design in presenting the pieces, utilize every single fucking contact I have that has a remote chance of putting in a good word for me. Hard work and the right attitude is good, but it won't be enough, not for this, not what this opportunity means to me. Rob, Rachel, Jeremy, Su. I'm sure they could do something to help. And at this point, I'm willing to accept any help they can throw my way. And I should contact Gord too. But I'm not as buddy buddy with him as Cody and Alan are, but I have a feeling he'd be willing to help me out. The only way I can sleep at night if I don't end up getting the job is if I know I did everything possible, and contacted everyone I could.
Also worked on some of the textures Mark sent my way. Created a tiling white sand texture today but he sent it back saying it needed some tweaking, and asked me to start working on a dark brown garden soil texture, which I have yet to start. Also, the company's paying today - I think - so I just sent him an email tallying my hours. Dunno if they'll be needing an invoice though. Hopefully I'll get the money in time to see Christine next weekend.
Yeah, that's about all that's happened to me today. Hoping for the best, as always.
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