What is this website?
This is my personal website and it doesn't really have one singular focus. I just wanted a place where I can share my creations, my opinions, my interests, and whatever other nonsense I think of. I kind of created it on a whim but I've kept working on it on-and-off.

Who am I?
So anyways, My name is Ian, AKA Orbital Lizard. I’m a 21 year old college student who's struggling to decide what to do with himself. I have quite a few hobbies and interests, so I guess I'll talk about those here.

Hobbies
stop-motion animations is one of my main hobbies at the moment, so much so, that I'm considering a career in animation. So far I've mostly made stop-motion animation with Lego, because that's what I started with and I kind of got stuck in my ways.

Coding has been an on-and-off hobby of mine for many years, which has eventually led to this website. I'm being very loose with the defenition of "coding" here, because a big part of that for me has been the website Scratch, The "block-based visual programming language" meant to teach kids how to code, which I was pretty into during high school. But besides that, I also had a JavaScript phase. For a while, I was learning JS and was especially interested in physics simulations.

I'm kind of hesitant to call "listening to music" a hobby, but it's a big enough part of my life that i'm including it here anyways. It's not just the act of listening to music, but also finding music, and the sense of community that comes with that.

Besides listening to music, I also play some instruments. I've played cello since middle school, and I've been learning guitar on and off for a while as well.

Music production is another hobby I've had for years. Until like a year ago, I mainly used the GarageBand mobile app. I've written scores for some of my brickfilms, as well as for some other peoples' brickfilms. I might make a page for them someday.

I guess one very general hobby I have is art. By "art" I guess I mostly mean doodling and drawing with a pen. I have a weird relationship with drawing. I draw pretty often, but I haven't really practiced or tried improving at it in a long time. I guess being technically skilled at something isn't everything, as long as you enjoy doing it.

I also enjoy writing, even if i'm not very good at it. I'll definitely use this site to share my writings about various topics that interest me.

I've also played plenty of video games throughout my life. not as much these past few years, but recently I have enjoyed modding some older systems like my Wii and DS, so that has allowed me to play a lot of classics for the first time, such as Paper Mario 64. I have also played more Minecraft in the past few years than I'd like to admit.