A Work in Progress that may never get finished..

This is a piece I have cobbled together pretty quickly a while back. I was going thru the DVD of the old laserdic arcade classic, Dragon's Lair, by Don Bluth. The opening shot has always intrigued me, and I wanted to do a quick homage to it. I always love a good multi-plane camera shot. This one has many facets. The castle model is a paper cutout model that I made as a boy. I had recently taken it from my mom's house when I helped to renovate my old bedroom. All of the other layers are just stock images that I found online. The birds are from Maya.

A review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Last night some friends and I went to see the Wolverine movie.  Now I'm not such a huge fan of the X-Men movie series, but I really enjoyed this film.  I could really like the Logan (Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman) character enough to really care if he gets killed or not. 

My biggest issue was the issue of invincibility.  At the beginning, Wolverine is pretty darn hard to injure.  In fact, he's immortal.  So, why go to the trouble of injecting his bones with adamantium?  He was already a killing machine with no shortcomings.

There were many compositing shots that were very fake-looking.   At the end of the film, a group of people are walking to a helicopter across a field.  The scene looked so badly composited, so utterly fake, that I wondered why they showed it at all, let alone twice!

But overall if you want a pretty compelling action-adventure flick, it's worth a look.

About Me

I'm Geoff Clark, and this is my blog. I started it as a replacement for my website's News page.  I plan to post any items that I feel are worthy of posting.
I am an animator who has mostly worked in the video games industry. I am currently looking for work and in this space I can post some of the projects that I am working on in animation or art. 
I'm someone who is always working on something, whether it be a drawing, an animated piece, or a sculpture.  It's my way of relaxing.
I'm in the process of overhauling my website, www.geoffclarkanimation.com.
For the time being, I'm a stay-at-home dad who is helping to raise my two adorable little girls.  So I am busy but for the most part I am enjoying my life.

Let's jump on the blogging bandwagon

With the popularity of blogs and the people who write them, I think it's time I give this new-fangled technology thingie a try!

But seriously, I started a blog a long time ago, and I just couldn't keep it up. I could not find the time nor the energy to fill it with any interesting writing. So I gave up.

This time will be different, I'm going to try to post to it regularly and make it something that is worth my time.