Where in the heck have I been?

I wonder the same thing myself. These last few months have flown by, and for reasons that were (mostly) all good. Here are some of them:

Baby #2!
My wife and I are expecting our second child! We are so excited about this, and can't wait to totally mess up yet another child. ;) She isn't due until October, but plans are already well under way to make sure the child has a nice nursery to come home too.

My 2 year-old son has already said he wants a girl and wants to name her "Chuggington" after his current favorite TV show.

Work
I have been extremely busy at work as of late, but the two projects I've been most involved with are out the door. The first was "Toy Soldiers," a game for Xbox Live that was released a month or so back. It's a fantastic game, and not just because I did a bunch of the animation for it, so if you want a fun (and funny) tower defense game to play, go grab it now!

The second game I've been involved with is "Alan Wake," which went gold this week! I had the pleasure of going out to Finland and working with Remedy on-site for a week, and they are a talented group of folks to say the least. I hope their game sells an absolute truckload, and look for my raven and dog animations as you're playing!

And you won't believe the stuff I'm working on now, when I'm finally able to talk about it (hopefully after E3 this year.)

Podcast
If you guys haven't listend to my podcast, "The Dave and Steve Show" in some time, here is a little taste of what you've been missing:

The Best of The Dave and Steve Show from Dave Johnson on Vimeo.

We've had a TON of guests on, including comedian Mike Schmidt, comedian Paul Goebel, Steel Panther, Steve Haverly, and more! Plus we have a "Phineas and Ferb" animator coming on next week, Rock Sugar the week after, and Airbourne next month!

We also held our first listener party, which was a blast, and we're going to have a BIG presence at St. Meatentine's Day in Cheney Stadium this summer! If you don't know what St. Meatentine's Day is, you soon will. ;)

Chip Games
I've also been illustrating a chip game a week for the last few months and will continue to do so through September. I'll try to be much better about posting the ones I'm really happy with.

Annecy
This hasn't happened yet, but I'll also be at the Annecy Animation Festival in France this year, and hope to see some of you there. If you're going, please drop me a line and we'll go out for beers and/or wine.


So life is good for me, and I really hope it is for you as well. Summer is almost upon us here in the Northwest, and I can't wait to get out and run around in various parks with my son, while animating with any free second I can spare.

Thanks for visiting, and drop me a line if you'd like. I'd love to hear from you.

Oh... and "How to Train Your Dragon" was a blast, so if you haven't seen it yet, please do! :)

All the best.
-Dave

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