Name: Ian

Age: 20

He/Him

What is this website for? Why did I make it?
I’ll be completely honest. My original reason for making this site was really shallow. This was just going to be a portfolio type site for me to dump my animations, but after exploring countless other neocities sites, I was motivated to turn this website into something more. I haven't made much progress yet, but I have big plans for this site. One thing I plan to add is an interactive "favorite albums" page where I'll write extensively about the music I like. I also plan to revamp the "films" page, adding behind-the-scenes photos and that sort of thing. This is a terribly meandering page but whatever. I'll come back and edit this once I've made more progress on the site.

Who am I?
So anyways, My name is Ian, AKA Orbital Lizard. I’m a 20 year old college student who's struggling to decide what to do with himself. I have quite a few hobies and interests, so I guess I'll talk about those here.

Hobbies
Making lego animations seems to be my main hobby at the moment, so much so, that I'm considering a career in animation. But the truth is, I can't really decide which aspect of "brickfilming" I like the most. I do enjoy animating, but I equally enjoy the story-telling and set-design aspects.

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, so I tried coding one myself.

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. I'll go into more detail in the "interests" section. I've also started collecting CDs and cassettes for albums I like, though my collection is tiny right now.

Besides listening to music, I also play some instruments, those being cello and guitar. I've played cello since middle school, but I only really started learning guitar recently and still consider myself a beginner.

Music production is another hobby I've had for years. Until like a year ago, I mainly used the GarageBand mobile app. I don't consider myself very good at writing music, but I've written scores for some of my brickfilms, as well as 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 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. Speaking of things that interest me:

Interests
still working on this section