I’ve been making recent strides in finding new projects and new opportunities here in Boston. I’ve gotten a couple web design jobs, a small photo gig and, most recently, I’ll be creating some character models for an online game being produced by my roommate’s Community Development organization. Throughout all of this, I’ve also started a part-time seasonal job selling computers at the Best Buy in Cambridge.

The web design work has been a great way for me to dive back into html and css. I’ve fallen in love with WordPress in the process. I even turned my own website into a WordPress powered site, and I’m very pleased with the result! I still have some pages to transfer, as well as some small design issues to tidy up.

I’ve also been thrown back into a production situation, but this time on the game side. I’ll be be developing animated player and non-player models for a browser-based multiplayer game called Participatory Chinatown. I’m really psyched to get going and dig my teeth into this one! I’m sure I’ll have to readjust a lot of my habits to make the models and textures suitable for real-time rendering.

Anyway, the future is not bleak.