Trapped in my own goatee!!!

Ok , wow it has been a long time blog.. hello again, been busy and working and raising my kid. So to the meat of this post, I have had a goatee for a long time and every so often I shave it off. My wife then misses it and I grow it back, cut it, grow back no big deal.. over and over.
Ah so now we have a little kid and I shaved my goatee today while they watched me shave it, "shave more, shave more" so I shaved it clean off and got my face all nice and smooth.

Cut to a few min. later as we sit to play blocks.... " beard back on, put it on, back on!!!" I say I can't its gone, start the tears, the crying/screaming and running to hide behind the curtain for the next hour. Good grief.. Wife gets home, we sit to eat dinner and my kid starts shaking and crying again, "Daddy leave, daddy go, go , leave dad" says my 20 something month oldish kid. So now I went from hugs/kisses and loved to being a terror to my own child and being banished from any room my kid is in so they don't start shakin and crying.... Note to the world, change= bad in the world of kids and even worse when that change makes you look different to them!

My wife says, guess we just like you better with the goatee, great.. forever trapped in my own facial hair. Some day my kid will love me again I hope.. or my hair will grow back in in a few days. Either way when you are the fulltime caretaker/parent it makes it hard when your kid breaks out in tears and can't look at you when you have to change the diapers or try and feed them. Good times. Talk to you soon blog.

p.s. something animation related.. umm.. way to many movies still being created that all look the freaking same with the same kind of characters and the same look and feel and the stories all kind of merge in to one long forgettable mess. Cars was good, long but looked great and was a nice change of pace from some of the other films out. Over the hedge, really funny in a slapstick kind of way and looked great in that "CGI almost cardoon real" kind of way that gets kind of generic after a while but still a fun film. Lots of other CGI cartoon look-a-likes coming out but I will see them.. then forget them just as fast..
On the front of pissing of all the people that are all touchy about "pure" keyframe animation, Mocap and capturing true performance have taken huge leaps in the last year. Monster house finely almost got it right with the non-photoreal CGI characters making it at least watchable compared to polarespresscreepy. Also the golum/kong toping acting that the main bad pirates in the Pirates of the Caribean number 2, was just amazing , so amazing that several of my very smart CGI animator friends could not believe that the pirate bad guys were CGI the entire time. ILM did an amazing job and pushed the art and use of mocap to a whole new level mixing the best of real world acting , mapping it to a computer character and then adding animation ontop of it to make a character with all the acting and feeling of a real person with a squid face.