5/5/05!!!
AWESOME! 5 is my favorite number! I'm going to have to see if Lyne wants to go for dinner - even though I'll have to come back here & work afterwards, at least I can celebrate a little! And a girls gotta eat! :)::::
I'm having a big dilemma over my illustration today... I have worked a lot in Flash, and then recently even used Fireworks (since I'm so familiar w/ it's bezier and how it manages it's vector shapes etc) & then importing that into Photoshop to convert it to 300DPI & CMYK for a print job.... and now I'm trying Expression, and I *really* like the lines that it creates - but when exported into Illustrator or Flash there's a gazillion points. :/ It's great to play and try different things, but I sure wish I could just feel good about sticking with one - that I feel like will be: 1.) able to maintain my style 2.) Be vector for ease of color changes and symbol usage for potential flash projects down the line, editing, etc & 3.) good for print projects. OY! Lots to think about. Illustrator is the obvious choice, in away - althought it doesn't do some of the cool things Expression does. Anyway - that's my world today. I posted about it in more detail on the illustration friday forum if any of you want to pick up the conversation with me there.
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Lastnight we had to say goodbye to Jake, our wonderful editor (and my co-facilitator) at Bamboozled. So we had a party, played Taboo & ate cake to ward off the tears. Jake is an incredible person that I feel so grateful to have known for the last couple years. He's creative, funny, humble, kind, and an extremely talented writer & musician (also in BLAMMOS). I'm going to miss him so much... *sniff*
So now I have to find a new editor/co-facilitator... and I can only pray I find someone as awesome as him. He was so great with the youth and I feel like we were such a great team. Changes like this are so tough. Jake's moving on to move back to Vermont with his fiance where they both have great jobs lined up and their family is there, etc. And yet it's been hard for him (and us) to say goodbye. As Jake says... it's times like make life beautiful and horrible all at the same time. I hear that!
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oh - eek! I have to run to a meeting - cya!
