As A Gnomon Student, and a Tour of Blizzard
I just completed week 5 of my first semester as a student at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and it has blown my mind. Everything from classes and learning new things every day to having to contain my inner screaming fan-girl as we run around to studios and meet famous people in the industry. My classmates like to tease me a little bit about my inner fan-girl and my awkwardness, but I think I’ve done a good job about beating back my shyness and actually going up to people and talking to them.
I do a good job at hiding the fact that I want to run away and hide. I am not very good at being out-going, and it is something I am slowly working on. In our Overview of Visual FX and Gaming, our professor (I really shouldn’t call him that, he’s a little too cool for the title ‘professor’) wants us all to be outgoing, make contacts, talk to people–and our class is so quiet. I said I would talk just for te sake of talking now, but that I would probably end up saying some really stupid things. He said instant A. Very well then!
Blizzard. Did I mention we went to Blizzard on friday? I can’t tell you anything about it because I signed my soul away with an NDA agreement, but Fausto de Martini gave us the tour of the studio. It is very relaxed, very casual and just looks like a fun place to work. Blizzard is still on my list of top three studios that I do want to work for. If you look in my portfolio, I am sure that isn’t very obvious at all. I got to see all the Blizzard statues in person–the one of Kerrigan is amazing! I had seen Steve Wang’s myspace photos of the process, which in itself was impressive, but seeing it in person is incredible.
Oh? You don’t believe me that I went to Blizzard? Hmm.
