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so, I had applied for an internship at Pixar and got my application in to them March 11th (a few days before the march 15th deadline). anyway, their material said to expect either a postcard or email acknowledgement within 2 weeks of them recieving the application. 2 weeks came and went without me hearing anything, so I sent an email to HR making sure they had recieved my application..and never got a reply. so at that point i figured they weren’t interested
so anyway, I just got an email tonight (exactly a month after they recieved my application (i had delivery confirmation) and they want to have “a few of our Supervising Technical Directors” talk to me on the phone this coming thursday :)
at this point, after getting my hopes up again in a major way, I better get the job :P
went to the Company Gallery this past weekend for the art show. it was a pretty nice gallery space..lots of windows onto the street. finally saw Doug’s Spore 1.1 that I’ve heard all about, and there were some other pretty cool pieces too. another I really liked was a piece where you controlled a video of various facial expressions with a turntable..you could scratch back and forth..slow it down..speed it up..play it backwards. it was interesting using a record player to interact with video like that.
This isn’t really class related, but I felt it was worth sharing anyway. VW has a new commercial airing in the UK, and they did a pretty amazing job with it. Here’s a link to the commercial, and here’s another blog posting about it that contains a short interview with one of the guys who danced in it.
and with that..time to start working on the homework…
Luke Dubois came today and showed some neat things you could do with max/msp and jitter. I liked how he spent some time explaining MSP objects since we haven’t gone over those in class yet and I’m kinda interested in the audio side of the program. it was also pretty interesting to see how he linked msp and jitter objects together.
Robin (one of the ladies on the phone during my interview) called me back tonight.
The bad news is I won’t be working there this summer.
The good news is she wanted to let me know that they all really liked my demo reel and enjoyed talking with me on the phone. They felt I’d make a great shader or rigger, but don’t have any positions in either of those areas for me to fill. She was sorry they couldn’t hire me, but said I’d be on file with them and that she was looking forward to hearing from me again in the future.
