John W. Vanderbeck

Its official. Not that I was overly worried, but I checked my final grades from block 3 last night and everything is A-OK. Starting on January 2nd, when we return from the christmas break we will be starting our fourth and final block. It is in this block that we as a class do an actual production, which is then screened during our graduation on the big screen at Universal Citywalk. The experience is essentially exactly like what it will be when working in the industry.

In our case we actually got a special treat. We will be doing the post-production (IE visual effects work) for an actual client. The show is roughly 44 minutes long and has already been shot and will be passed off to us for pos-production work. This is EXACTLY how it works in the industry and so the experience will be invaluable.

Moving on into this stage however, I have decided to make some major changes to my website. In reality I think very few people actually read the blog, and as I move towards graduation I will the need to have a more portfolio styled website for my job search. As a result, I have decided to spend the holiday break redoing the website into a portfolio style website showing off my best works and demo reels. The blog will, for now, be discontinued.