Husband Clothes

I just had a random memory of a conversation my husband and I had about 10 years ago. We’d been dating maybe 3 months. At that time, my husband was a 2D animator. Those are the artists who draw cartoons like Sponge Bob, the Simpsons, and so on. Never gave a thought to 3d jobs–that type of animation was brand new.

I remember us talking about the future, and I said, “You should think about learning 3D animation. You could work on movies like that one called ‘Shrek’ that’s coming out soon.” And his face lit up and looked really enthusiastic.

At that time, my husband knew almost NOTHING about the computer. He even asked me if I knew how to install a program (which I didn’t, though I used a computer at the office every day).

But he got really interested in learning 3D animation and other computer artistic things. There’s 3d for video games (used for even regular games but also the Nintendo 3DS and specialized consoles), and there’s 3d for movies–my husband went the movie route. And then taught himself all these programs to expert level. It took a very long time. People thought he was CRAZY to think he could master that kind of complex stuff himself, yet advised us not to even dream of spending $30,000 for him to go study how to do it. (And we didn’t, as we were way too dirt poor.)

Anyway, he worked on one of the Shrek movies a few years ago. Wierd, hu?

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