Before I start this explanation for my online absence, I would like to thank the recent group of people who have e-mailed me. Several of you have written either to ask my permission to link to this page, to ask me one or two questions in a mini-interview, or to just offer a few kind words. I thank you for all of the above. Your kind thoughts and wishes could not have come at a more important time in my life.
So why am I bidding you adieu for now?
Real Life and I have never been easy bedfellows. A few recent events in my life have made me realize that I have to reassess my priorities if I am to achieve any success in any of my endeavors. These priorities include my scientific research (yes, scientist is my day job), as this is the career that pays my bills. I am also involved an a pair of video game projects which make serious demands of my time. Last but not least there has also been a very messy end to a friendship I valued above most others, and frankly I need time to get over this.
I could easily maintain this webpage and post a review a week and make everyone happy, in theory. In practice, this is not the case. On the one hand, I really don't have the time to enjoy multiple viewings of a film so I can review it. On the other hand, I am not in the best of moods and am unlikely to be for a few weeks. I do not want my current mood to color my reviews. This isn't fair to the films, and it isn't fair to you. I do not want to corrupt this webpage into an egocentric shrine to myself and my hangups. I've seen too many webpages do this, and I promise you that this will never be the fate of my Animation webpage. I love my webpage. I have put a lot of hard work into it. I will not cheapen it.
And so, I am unplugging the word processor and letting this webpage rest for a while, until I am ready to resume its cybermantle once again.
These pages will stay online as a resource for others until I return. I'm proud that my webpage lasted for as many consecutive months as it did, and that I was a dutiful webmaster. I'm also happy that so many of you have used my webpage as a reference in your term papers, school work and even dissertations. My goal was to create an intelligent animation webpage, and I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. I've never shrunk from an opinion as long as I did my best to develop it fully. I love animation passionately, and I know that many of you do, too. You've been very loyal to me, and I know that many of you have returned to see the site several times.
I would especially like to thank Lisa Crandall for her editing skills, Eva Nottage for her too-brief partnership, Wendy Dinsmore for her early advice, Bryan Wilkinson for some behind-the-scenes information on How To Be an Animator, Ty Templeton for agreeing to an online interview, Antonia Levi for professional correspondence and support, Remy Espinosa for being as honest as a comics dealer can be, and Len Pitre for being one of the best collaborators I've ever worked with.
I hope that you continue to enjoy the words I have written and I hope that you will be kind enough to welcome me when I reopen the page for new material.
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