3Daosim

So I've been working at the Academy a couple of weeks now and I'm enjoying helping people learn to combine polygons and merge verts and stuff. I also have some free time to work on my own stuff when it's slow so hopefully I'll finish something new to post here on my site soon. I was helping this one girl with 3DS Max stuff who is an architect major and I spent so much time trying to rip her bloated scene apart that she eventually said she's been considering just paying someone to fix it all for her because she is about to graduate and needs her portfolio done. I told her should could email me the files and I'd try and play with them at work when it's not too busy. Basically I'd just need to optimize the crap out of the geometry and start over with the lighting.

So I just started a job at the Academy of Art as a Computer Animation and Visual Effects Lab Technician. I get to help the 3D newbies learn how to merge verts and combine polys. :) Today was my first day and I enjoyed it even more than I expected to. Everyone seemed friendly and the job seems to be a cakewalk with the added benefit of being able to work on my own things whenever I'm not needed by a student. Apparently I'm also able to take any course at the school tuition free which I may just decide to try out at some point. I hear there's a course on Renderman and it'd sure be nice to add that to my list of apps. Oh and there's also Nuke... which I recall meeting a couple of guys in SoCal who were making $150/hr as their base rate for doing Nuke editing. All in all I expect this job to be a good experience for me and a step towards getting my career back on track.