so what the hell is macaroniKazoo? and why such a weird name? well, its reasonably memorable isn’t it? certainly sticks out, thats for sure. plus I thought it sounded kinda cool. either way, I wanted some umbrella to work under instead of just plastering my name on it.

so thus macaroniKazoo was born. anyway, welcome to the zoo. this is basically my platform to distribute the zoo suite of tools. at this point in time its really only comprised of the zooToolBox. who knows where it will go from here.

so who the hell is macaroniKazoo? at this point in time, the only person in the zoo is hamish mcKenzie – which happens to be the same person that’s writing this about page. so yay for me. I’m an animator and a technical guy depending on whether I’m on home time or work time. I’ve worked in games, film, and tv in both australia and the US. and I write the zoo tools because, basically, I’m a really really lazy animator. I hate doing anything more than once, and I don’t like to be doing anything other than animating when I’m animating. 3d is a pretty technical field, and its easy to get bogged down with technical issues for just about anything animation related. you want to lay a hand on another character’s shoulder. you want to lock an elbow to a table. you want to quickly pick up a prop in the scene etc… the list goes on and on, and its easy to get bogged down learning how to do these things “properly” and not get the time you need to really make your animation sing.

so anyway, i’ve been writing tools for myself to help speed up the things that bug me and I figured what the hell. maybe others will find them useful as well.

now, if you’re actually interested to hear MORE about me, then take a gander at my personal blog.  I like it keep it separate from the tool stuff because…  I just do.