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After 6 months of interruption the blog is alive again, and the whole website has been updated, migrated to wordpress using a brand new theme, I hope you will like it! Please update your bookmarks or add the blog to your feed reader. So, I’ve been really busy with some lead lighting work on Shrek forever after, Megamind, and now on Puss in Boots. I will keep that post really short, as it’s intent is mostly to give you the word about the general update, and I will start writing here once or twice a month I think. In the …

One year ago I posted my really first entry on this blog, and then I really started to publish regularly during fall. The report for that one year is mostly positive : over 200 000 visitors for a little more than 50 posts, 125+ feed readers, but less than 100 comments on the whole blog, which compared to the french version of the blog is a really low ratio ( on the french version over 70 000 visitors left about 250 comments). I’m wondering what could cause the lack of participation and interaction. I can’t think my bad english skills …

This post is probably out of the usual scope of the blog, but while surfing I ended up on that video. All of a sudden I jumped back in time when I was 12 and faced a lot of souvenirs. Without the acquisition of that computer I don’t think I would have developed such a strong interest to computer graphics. You might want to turn off your sounds for the first video. Let’s do a quick briefing for those who have not experienced the amiga. This was the first computer to offer the general public a range of high-quality video …

Any RSS Feed user, you can skip this post, even though I encourage you to suscribe to my feed. Well don’t stop bookmarking blogs right away, But there is another way to follow your favorite blogs simply because their content is separated from the layout. That give us an opportunity to use different themes / colors / layout easily, and also to share the content of every post through a “RSS Feed” So , what is a RSS feed ??? RSS Feeds are contained in a XML file which is embedding the mainstream of any entry published on a blog. …

So here we go, I finally decided to start writing a blog on my website. Let’s try to summarize my background : I’m Sebastien chort ( many call me by my nickname : Zeb). I just turn into my thirties, I’m married and have a 15 months daughter. I’m a CG artist with a specialization for ligthing ( even though I’m kind of generalist , check out my portfolio) I’m living in Los Angeles since 2003 when Blur Studio brought me from oversea to work for them, and I get another position at Dreamworks since May 2007. I will write …