Interview with Jim Murphy

Pixar's unofficial blogspot links us to this fantastic animation specific interview with Jim Murphy, lead animator for Cars!

Punk baby

Demo Reel

Wow. So much stuff to dig through! But alas, it's in the can until I can make some new decent replacements.

Go here to see:
http://gronquist.com/john

Artist? Naw, I'm a Mason!

Well, here's what's been consuming pretty much all my time for the past few months..



For those of you who don't already know, my wife is a bit, errr, extreme when it comes to DIY projects. If you've seen Over the Hedge, when Hammy's all rabid for the girl scout cookies, that's what Kim looks like in Home Depot. Her dad was a carpenter, and never let her play with the miter saw, like her brother's got to do.. ..nuff said.

Nominally this whole project is about the hot tub, which we talked ourselves into to try and help out with some complicated medical stuff involving low body temps and lack of a decent blood alchohol level. It's a 10 person in-ground gas fired wonder of modern science.

Anyways, so we're building this giant mega patio. So far it's involved a lot of using the dozer to level out the hill in front of our house, spreading gravel, and shovelling money into the hot tub contractor. The tub is in, and functional, and we're working on tiling the surround for it right now. The contractor who installed it really knew his stuff, this tub is solid fiberglass and built like a speedboat, and has STRONG jets, and should last a long long time with good maintenence. All in all it was probably twice the cost of what a megastore model would've been, but really worth draining the coffers for.. ..yeah. Yeah, I didn't need that nice new TV anyways.. Our 15 year old projector is just fine...

Next up, the retaining wall. Wee!

We're hoping to have this thing done by Labor day.. If we do, we're SO having a big stupid party, and you all are invited.

A Gronquist get's it DONE!

Check it out, my uncle Dennis is onto his 6th book now! Cripes, and I've barely managed to read a comic book or two while waiting for the occasional render to finish... [insert blush of shame here]


http://members.provalue.net/NanoculePress/

I'm so gonna get off my duff and finish up his first book, Time Trap, now! And finish those game design sketches for my buds.. ..and finish that patio project.. ..and fix my kid's computer.. ..and do the dishes - no wait, gotta draw the line somewhere..