#WaveMaker
Hi John,
While you're on the subject of Pixel Pro, I've wondered if you ever use it
in the end-run of object creation, by using the polygon reduction feature
to simplify unnecessarily complex objects? Or are you generally able to
design things without much polygon excess?
I hope to meet you at the VTU expo in L.A. this December. Found some
Mileage Plus Awardcheques laying around. I had put out an earlier message
regarding the Hawaii event, with my concerns about seminars tending to be
geared too much to the Absolute Beginner. Several high caliber people
responded with their belief that it would be more about Intermediate or
Advanced exchanges, and that the travel distance would keep the dilitantes
away. But I was dismayed to see in the recent VTU that there were
Beginner classes scheduled for a third of each of day. And if there are a
lot of people attending the Beginner classes, they will of course be there
filling the seats at the so-called Advanced classes. And that is the
problem. It's not that the overall curriculum's goals are too low, it's
that a good chunk of the audience is not able to absorb it yet. It's very
difficult for an instructor to pursue a well-planned course of advanced
techniques when they must machete their way through basic questions.
Which you have to answer because they paid mucho dinero for the privilege.
This was the problem that Lee Stranahan had to contend with in his
"Advanced" seminars, and I suspect this will be the dynamic in Hawaii.
Perhaps this "trying to be all things to all people" stems from economic
necessity, and that you would not be able to fill the seminars with
strictly Intermediate and Advanced artists. Well, maybe not today, but in
the near future, I hope for the equivalent of 2nd or 3rd Year French in a
LightWave intensive seminar, where the people already know how to
conjugate their keyframes.
Thanks for letting me grouse in your general direction.
Sean Hannon
Ad Rats – Stamford, CT