Just an update on the life of Gette, for anyone who's interested...no new work, sorry. But there will be soon!

SO I kept getting annoyed with people for assuming that I'd gotten accepted for the Disney apprenticeship program that starts this next week. They'd say things like "so what now? Just waiting for Disney to start?" and I'd say "NO, because I didn't get the Disney thing." And then that person would shrink a little bit. Not that it's an insult, it's just understandably frustrating to have the same conversation over and over. And then comes Monday and Disney calls me.

So I AM doing the Disney apprenticeship. Serves me right for being so prickly. It starts on Tuesday. What am I looking forward to the MOST? To eating lunch in the comissary on the main lot with my friends, that's what! And harassing Joe Moshier to find out all his design secrets. And free tea. And, oh yeah, access to enormous libraries of animation art and history, too.

And I had a very lovely 23rd birthday last week, and Los Feliz is probably the best neighborhood I've EVER lived in, with the nicest people. Good to be back in LA for keeps! So life post-art school is treating me well. So far so good!

Here's that witch all colored in (you really have to click on it to get a better idea of what all that jibbery detail stuff is).

One of the cool things about being up here is that there's so many awesome people all in the same place. For instance, I talked to Tony Fucile today! I wish I could think of better questions to ask...I'm so bad with spontaneous question asking. I'm always like, "Er...how do I not suck? I mean, how do I be's better? How do I hold a pencil again? What's a shape? " Anyway, he said lots of very nice things, and that was exciting. We're starting to wrap up, even though I've got a bazillion totally unfinshed things lying everywhere... And we're supposed to pitch our stuff to like, real for real art directors and production designers. Hm.

I'm moving to Los Feliz this weekend! Finally I'm out of Valencia... Since I'll be in LA I'm gonna stop by the Ninja Show at Nucleus (I've never been before). Will I see YOU there?

Here's some beat boards from Hansel and Gretel. It's not the whole thing, obviously, but it's a lot of it.







Looking forward to being back in L.A. soon, land of high rent, amazing swapmeets, and blisteringly hot summers.