Stanley Lindsey - Level Designer and Environment Artist

Okay, so. As I mentioned before; I've now quit my sales assistant job at GAME and have been working for the company myself and Danny set up in July fully for about two months now.

Originally, before I had made the commitment and had quit GAME, we were going to open up a graphic design and print shop in the shop space below our flat. Various things snowballed this idea until we simply landed one big gig; makings race tracks.

So thats 6 months guaranteed full time work for Danny and part-time work for me. We're both so busy with this for the first couple of weeks that we decide not to spend £800 on the shop front when we can work on this stuff in our own front room without that up front cost.

Apart for developing the race tracks for professional teams we have also had some other CGI, web and graphic design work so it is going rather well.

That said it is tough, self motivating yourself to sometimes simply get up out of bed and work is an exercise in self discipline. You've also got to look after your own tax, find clients, write contracts, follow up payments, look after employees, organise work etc etc.

That's all without sick or holiday pay but you know what, I ruddy love it. Making something the client loves and getting that invoice paid for work you enjoy doing is a great feeling and I couldn't ask for anything better at this stage in my life.

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Man, I know how this guy feels. We both have blogs and both try to keep things updated but both appear to struggle.

My original intention with this part of my site is to document my journey from a young, cocky modder to a professional 3D artist, as well as other aspects of my life.

But it almost makes me question why I even have this blog. I obviously don't post enough and when I do ita just quick updates because I've missed something that happened months ago.

Maybe I just like the idea of writing, I used to help posting news and articles on gaming websites but it has died off during the let few years.
That said last night I wanted to add a tutorial section to this site and write tutorials. Plus if I was doing this for the page hits or followers I'd be using tumblr or WordPress.

Im still in bed write now, just awoke and have spent the last 30mins updating myself on the current happenings on the world wide web when twitter sent me this way, so i had to write a post on my phone. The experience of writing on this isn't bad at all actually.

I may be a pretty useless writer and blogger but oh well, its not getting deleted yet, I'll keep it for a few more years =P

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Well, as is in the recurring nature of the beast, I had a birthday this year. I entered the world of true adulthood. I have to start worrying about politics, global affairs and start wearing slippers.

I turned twenty one. Yay!

Being incredibly busy this year with various business proposals I will post up soon I wasn't even planning on truly celebrating my birthday this year. It wasn't until the day before said birthday that myself and my housemate decided to go crazy and just see what flights were leaving the UK.

A handful of hours later and we had booked a flight, found a third mate to join us and had started packing and within 24hours we were in Ibiza.

I spent a fair bit of money, but hey you only live once and I was so bogged down with so much other stuff that it was great to just get away for a few days and have a laugh. The closest to a stereotypical holiday I had the experience of previously was going to Belgium on a school trip to look at trenches. Not that that wasn't fun, but come on - Ibiza baby!

It being my twenty first I don't remember a massive amount of the evenings, but lying by the pool or wandering around the town in the sun was brilliant. I even got to try out a bit of my failed GCSE Spanish - a language I had challenged myself to learn since school.

Sleep got me through the travelling. Our flight landed at 3am in Manchester and our 6 hour coach back home was at 5pm. Moral of the story is that I discovered how surprisingly comfortable coaches and the arrivals lounge are having spent about four hour asleep altogether in them.

Anyway, that was that. On another note I got my first payment today for a long-term freelance environment artist position I am working part-time on whilst at university. I've quit GAME due to this and am now technically, emphasis on technically, a professional 3D modeller. More on that soon.

Sleep tight chaps.

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Busy.

Thats pretty much how I can sum up this summer.

Lets make a list, lists are fun, right?

Things that happened this summers:
1. Turned 21!
2. Went to Ibiza due to the above!
3. Started to open up a shop/graphic design company!
4. Got a new 3D Freelance job!
5. Decided to stop the shop/graphic design company!
6. Quit GAME!

A fair amount there, until today I was working at GAME doing between 20 and 30 hours a week, so I was pretty full on and that really sucked away my time.

Anyway, got to run, pretty sure 3DSMax just crashed, I'm going to try and re-cap those points properly before I get start back at university on the 3rd.

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Well, I'm all over the place right now. Its all positive though so I'm not worrying my cotton woolen socks.

So, no Vray Bugatti render but a lot has been accomplished in the last week or so. Firstly, I've been working on the website for the company myself and my friend, Danny, are creating; Lad Studios. At the moment only the homepage works, and not in IE, as per usual with any web development. Its a start, its somewhere we can have our work, send clients, use as hosting. Simply having the website makes it a much more professional prospect.

As well as that both myself and Danny have been working on a documentary project, similar to the time-team VGI visualizations. Its really good, fun, professional work and I'll be throwing up some images of that at some point in the future.

Last but not least we have finally sorted out the whole house thing. We've had the contract for my room signed and we are moving into our new flat/office later on this week. It is all over the place.

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