Hair of the Ball You Road In On:

Deep into hair and fur for 3D Max. The movement of the hair following the moving object seems to be simple. Getting it to look right is a whole other story.

Also spending time of late working on the the web site for Animation Educators` Forum. Right now working on teacher profile database with Arno Kroner. (Okay, Arno is doing all the heavy lifting on this but I still am in there kicking around design ideas and I did create an Access prototype)

The idea is to have a web site with animation teacher profiles so that animation programs can find teachers with needed skill sets. As it is now the animation grapevine is the only way to hunt down teachers to fill needed slots and lots of time and energy, that could be put to better use teaching and running programs, is spent hunting for teachers.

On the other side of the coin the teachers spend lots of energy looking for classes to teach that could be put to better use. The whole idea behind the Educators` Forum is to make things easier for the people involved in training the next generation of animators.

More on that later. Today I need to get ready for the ASIFA board meeting on Wednesday. Also have to help my wife get stuff together for the Silverado Country Fair that is this weekend.