We are now two posts in and only now do I realize I was never introduced. You know my work, but you haven't got a clue who I am. Allow me to help with that. Today's post is going to tell you who I am, my goal for this blog and my website, and what I hope to end up achieving.

    Okay, let's start with addressing the simple question. What if you just want to see my qualifications and maybe a little summary? Well you're in luck. Right at the top of this page there's a button that says "about". That will take you to a page with all that. But this post will be much more in depth than that.

    Let's start at the very basics. My name is Amber. I own this blog as well as the website that you likely got here from (fluffpumpkin.net). I have a passion for all things 3D and I hope to find myself in a career doing it sometime soon. I was a student at Pima JTED, which has an excellent 3D animation course, and that is where I received most of my formal training as well as took the test for my After Effects certification. I am fluent in Python, C#, JavaScript, and HTML5. I would consider myself a fast learner and I am able to work well with tight deadlines, which I believe are two things that go hand in hand.

    Okay, so now you know who I am, but you don't know the why. Not why I exist, because I don't want to go into that discussion, but rather why I am even doing 3D in the first place. Well, it actually started because in 8th grade I found Blender 3D, my software of choice for animation, and I got it to run on a Chromebook. That's how my journey started. I found out that I could create and breathe life into my creations. I could make worlds and characters that could never exist in reality. The real world can get dull at times, but worlds that can be created have endless possibilities.

    My passion for 3D lies within a few more specific realms. I can make just about anything and I'm quite good at photo-realism, which is appreciated in the industry. What I enjoy, however, is creating stylized works. Photo-realism exists in the real world. That's where I am all the time. Why create more of it during my free time? If someone wanted me to model and animate a realistic shopping cart rolling down a realistic road, I would do it, but I would ask why. Why recreate what can be filmed when you can do so much more?

    The programs and software I use are the one's I'm familiar with, but I'm sure I could learn any given the need. For 3D animation I use Blender, a free, open-source program. I also do game design for which I use Unity, probably the most popular game engine. I use Adobe After Effects for video editing and effects and Photoshop for image editing. For any programming I do I use Visual Studio Code because of all the extensions.

    Alright, now for some miscellaneous facts. I am a big fan of Anime and my favorite is Spice and Wolf. In my free time I enjoy drawing and writing as well as the obvious, 3D animation. The best color is the color code #ff73c2. And if I could have any superpower it would be shapeshifting.

    I hope this blog post was informational and you got to know more about me and why I'm doing this. I will be trying to get out at least two posts a week, maybe more if I get the time, but it isn't very likely. This blog is a place to share my work, so there likely won't be any posts about my life or what I'm doing personally. This is for my projects and work, but I might post some life-related things on my twitter (@fluffestpumpkin).