CompuServe Messages

Martin, >> There's an industry-wide shortage of 3d talent generally (everybody was bitching about it), and there's a chronic shortage in 3ds-land. You got that right! Most of the companies we provide 3DS for have a constantly needy job opening list. I really think some kind of roundtable concerning educational/training resources needs to be set up; it's only going to get more intense in the future. You're exactly right when you mention these incredible new tools being made available, with very few people to run them in an effective way. As a dealer, but not a production environment, we can provide a certain amount of fairly high end training, but we don't have the expertise to bring it to the creative and professional level that is required for 3DS to compete on an even level with the "big iron". Being a dealer, there just aren't enough hours in a day to constantly explore the best ways to do things, etc, though this forum helps a lot! CAD Camp, (Autodesk's "Dealer Days"), is going on up here in San Rafael right now, and your message stimulated me to try to really seek out some answers there in the next day or two. I think it's something that really needs to be addressed. As a matter of fact, would you mind if I show a copy of your message to the appropriate parties concerned? You expressed the problem very eloquently! John (AEC Technologies)