One thing I forgot to mention is that one of my poor students, Hermella, got arrested for trying to do her animation homework over the weekend. She was shooting a simple scene of kids playing soccer in a public place. The police didn’t like that apparently and...
I Am With You I’m down to my last few days in “Hope-ia” as my youngest son calls Ethiopia. I will have a busy day helping students with their animations tomorrow so will just post a few photos from the week so far. First up, this is my walk to the...
Paradise Found, Part 2 OK. Lucrezia is leaving the country tonight and heading back to Rome so myself and our German professor friend, Klaus will bring her to the airport soon. I have a few minutes to be online with a shaky internet connection so I’ll see if I...
Paradise Found I only have a few minutes to make this post (I’m leaving to teach in a few minutes) so it will be mostly photos from the weekend in Bahir Dar. It’s by Lake Tana which is the source of the Nile River. It’s sort of like the garden of...
Down Down in Hope-ia As is not uncommon here, my plans have changed. Instead of going to Harar today, we will go to Bahir Dar, close to the Blue Nile Falls, the source of the Nile tomorrow morning until Sunday night. Lucrezia went to buy the tickets since we...
Thank You Today was storyboard critique day. I was a little wary this morning to be honest because there were 25 people to review, but everyone presented well and most are ready to start creating animatics and gearing up to produce their “final”...