by Gene Turnbow | Jul 21, 2005 | General
One of my fondest wishes has finally come true: I’ve gotten my eyes repaired! I had my LASIK surgeries (one eye at a time) by Dr. Peter J. Cornell on July 28th and 29th (we celebrated my son Charlie’s birthday two days early because his cousins and grandparents from my wife’s side of the family were in town). Within 24 hours after the second surgery, the vision in my right eye is 20/15, while the left eye is currently something near 20/25 to 20/20. However, the left eye was much more traumatized than the right one during surgery, and I expect both eyes to improve over the next three months.I have some halo effects – it’s kind of like watching an old black and white Humphrey Bogart movie, not unpleasant at all – and some starburst effects, particularly at night. However, the intensity of these effects come and go as my eyes heal, and of course my corneas have only begun the healing process. I’ve been told that these artifacts should disappear as my vision improves over the next three months, and I may see improvement in the quality of my vision for up to a full year after the surgery.
I’ve been told I can’t go swimming for a couple of weeks, and to sleep with protective goggles on for the next half week, and to use antibiotic, steroid and lubricant eye drops till then. After that it’s just lubricant drops as needed, and I have to remember to blink more often when I’m working at the computer. But that’s really it. It’s amazing to have clear vision, sharp as a tack, from one visible edge to the other. It’s like sitting front row, center in the Cinerama Dome!
I’m also still drawing. I did a drawing of somebody at the local bookstore, and she paid me a $20 bill for it, so we got our copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince basically for free. Quite a feeling, to have somebody go that apeshit over my art like that!
Oh, and by the way, if you’re considering getting LASIK yourself, just do it. There are a few things not to do:
- If you get told “no” by a doctor, don’t shop around till you find one that tells you “yes”. That’s not getting good medical advice, that’s fishing through the draw pile until you find the ace. Some people are just not good candidates. If you’re over 65, you should probably skip it. Likewise if the doctor tells you your corneas are too thin, or if you have lupus or some other immune system disorder, you should probably not go through with it. I’m not sure about diabetics, ask your doctor.
- Don’t listen to the wild stories about the quacks and malpractice suits against them. The only reason you hear about them at all is that they’re so rare that when it does happen it makes the headline news. The rest of the time these operations go off without a hitch – it’s actually far more dangerous to have a bunion removed. Most of the horror stories are from South America where they do your eyes and then give you no follow-up care. Then they run to this one clinic in Florida to see if the American doctors can save their eyes after a screwed up LASIK job, and about two thirds of the time they can, but about a third of the time they can’t. So if you’re hearing about these horrible situations, most of them come from that. Or the stupidity of the people getting them in the first place.
- Don’t expect a miracle: if you’re 50, expect to need reading glasses. I didn’t at first, but I did later – but it’s normal. What you’re after is normal vision, not perfect vision. Still, that might be miracle enough for you. It was for me.
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by Gene Turnbow | Feb 24, 2005 | Art, Linux
After three months of chasing wild geese, I think I’ve finally stabilized the server. I’ve finished the life drawing course, and my skills have taken another quantum leap – so much so that I’m considering pulling my demo reel and about half of the stuff on my gallery pages as being hopelessly nonrepresentative of my current abilities get more. I’m also working on a small personal animation project, this time in Maya. I have the advantage of having access to some of the best animators in the world as I learn. I’m perfectly positioned now all I have to do is the work itself.
by Gene Turnbow | Nov 17, 2004 | Art, Code
I start another life drawing class in about a week, and I’m brushing up on my Maya chops. Soon I’ll be able to run with the big dogs. In the meantime, check out the code page – I’ve finally fixed the problem with the nGene source code that prevented it from compiling cleanly on Linux using KDevelop 2.0! Unfortunately, I waited so long that KDevelop 3.0 has been out for months now. Ah, well, it may work as is, but if it doesn’t, I’ll fix it.
What a busy year it’s been. It seems like it’s all gone by in a blur.
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by Gene Turnbow | Jun 23, 2004 | Art, General
There are new images in the gallery; I’ve recently finished my first life drawing class here at the studio, so I thought I’d put up a few of the better images. I love to draw! I didn’t realize just how much until I got the opportunity to study under Glen Vilppu. What a remarkable teacher!
by Gene Turnbow | Jul 7, 2003 | General
After having interviewed at a number of places within the last three weeks, I’ve accepted a position at Rhythm & Hues, a major studio here in Marina Del Rey, California. So far, they’ve treated me like visiting royalty. What a great place to work!I’ve also agreed to speak at this years SIGGRAPH, the international computer graphics conference, in San Diego – that’s coming up on the 26th. (I was possibly going to speak at the Mensa conference again this year, but it’s been cancelled microsoft project alternative free.) And on the 28th, our son Charlie turns five years old! Things are still a struggle financially, but they’re finally starting to get a bit better. I’ll write more when I get time to breath.
When I first started, they were interested in somebody to edit a few web pages. However, what they really needed was an information distribution infrastructure of some kind, and they don’t have one. I have some ideas that I think will work out pretty well for them. We’ll see how receptive they are.
Almost ten years later, in 2013:
Post Mortem
I worked for Rhythm & Hues for very nearly 10 years. I went from web page editor to technical writer, to trainer, to technical animator. I wrote a total of 584 pages in a combined reference and user manual for the studio’s Academy Award winning hair and fur system, taught the studio pipeline for every discipline (including FX, which meant I had to learn Houdini too). Some of the animators I trained went on to win Academy Awards for their work on “Life of Pi”.
Then they laid us all off, at the same moment our lads were on stage accepting their BAFTA awards, they were getting pink slips back home. They laid off about 285 employees at the El Segundo studio with only 16 hours’ notice, which violates California State law. There was a class action suit to recover at least some of the money, and we won. I got all the back pay and accumulated vacation pay that was owed me, but most of the rest of them weren’t so lucky. Some of the senior people were owed $160,000 or more, and they’ll probably never see most of that money. Rhythm & Hues still exists, but they work on commercials and do single scenes on movies now, where they can get the gigs at all. They will never again be what they were. I was there during the studio’s golden years, and worked on more than sixty motion pictures, mostly uncredited.
That was in 2013. I was so hyperspecialized that I was unable to find regular work in the animation industry after that, and had to wander off into other fields, as many of my compatriots did. Some of the finest artists, illustrators and animators the world has ever seen are now doing their best to get buy selling real estate and whatever else they can get work doing. I was certainly not alone.
I’m still friends with many of them. Some still work in the industry, and are doing okay – but a lot of them just drifted off like steam from a kettle. I have no idea where most of them ended up.
That was Camelot.
It was not the first time I’d been at a company during its golden age, and hopefully will not be the last. Perhaps the next one will be one I make myself.
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