December 29, 2023 - [embed]https://youtu.be/s69Jv5Amip8?feature=shared[/embed] As artists, we spend hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades honing our craft, learning everything we need to build a body of work that is recognizable in the industry. But, there comes a time when we need to venture outside our creative disciplines to reignite that creative spark within. For 3D illustrator and animator Christopher B. Short, this meant exploring a childhood passion that has been with him for over 40 years. "It all started back in high school.  A couple of friends and I, like most teens in the 1980s, wanted to form our own rock band," he shares. "The types of music and genres that inspired us were groups like Boston, Heart, Kansas, Styx, Van Halen, The Eagles and The Cars from the 1970s. Then later, the hair-band era of the…