This blog is looking a little abandoned, heh? It has been a week since my last post. =P

But don't think this blog is dying. It's the opposite, actually. The lack of updates is due to a reason: my vacation! =)

And you know what's the best thing to do when you're on vacation? To work. But work on personal stuff. That ones that your job don't let you do.  =)

For the past days (and next ones) I'm doing a short animation. It's a bit of an elaborated exercise on weight, acting, timing and mixing 2D and 3D.

After months of trial and error, I finally put my cheap Aiptek Tablet to work properly on Ubuntu. The process involved compiling the new SVN driver from source, applying a patch and recompiling the X server. Not what you can call "plug'n'play", but now everything works like a charm. A piece of advice: if you want to buy a graphics tablet, go Wacom. Don't make the same mistake as I did. =)

With my old new tablet, I've painted the backgrounds on Gimp and I'm using Bassam Kurdali's ManCandy rig, because it's really good and I didn't want to spend my precious time developing another character. 

So... soon I'll bring you fresh new animated stuff!