It’s time for a new beginning!
Interesting thing happened to me recently. At SIGGRAPH2008, I won a copy of Cinema 4D Release 10.5 in the Student Volunteer giveaways. Awesome. But unfortunately, because of my work load and the hectic nature of finishing up my schooling for the foreseeable future, I didn’t get a chance to install it.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago when I crack open the box and look for a serial during installation. Uh oh. No serial, and I needed to register within 90 days to get a valid code for installation. Great. Now I’m out $900 of free software because I didn’t install it in time.
So I send off the registration anyway, hoping that the people at Maxon could find it in their hearts to spare a key anyway. I hear nothing for about a week. I figure that they just ignored me because my code was expired anyway. It’s understandable I guess.
Then I stumbled over a package left on the front step of my apartment complex as I left for the night. Out of chance I checked the name on it (I wasn’t expecting anything) and saw “Brian Lee” on there. Weird. I opened it up and found a new commercial copy of Cinema 4D Release 11!
So not only did Maxon go out of their way and respond to my late request, they sent me the newest version! What great people. I wonder if they know what a boon this is to me; I’m going to be starting out with my motion graphics career this year and this is going to be a huge asset.
So thanks to you Maxon, and the SIGGRAPH2008 committee as well for awarding me this amazing prize.
So this is my first blog posting in a while. A few things happened since here and there: I graduated with my 2nd degree (BA in Communication with a Digital Media focus) from NCSU, signed up with The Creative Group, and have been job/freelance hunting ever since December. Oh, and I just updated the theme on my blog here, so some of my old postings may be a little broken.
At any rate, it’s a great time for a lot of new beginnings: new software, new careers, new position in life, no class, no homework… Lots of interesting changes. And hopefully I’ll get a chance to post and update here more often.
Macgyver’d
I brought Guitar Hero 3 into CapStrat today, along with my PS2 and one guitar controller. After hooking it up to one of the widescreen monitors, Carson warned me that the audio input/output didn’t work on the monitor. Essentially, we needed to get the audio signal directly to the speakers, from two male RCAs to a standard miniplug. We found an adapter which would turn the miniplug into another two male RCAs, but that didn’t get us anywhere… So I cooked this up.
Front view
Top view
Using nothing but a paper clamp and the clip from a Pilot Uniball, I was able to get one channel going for Guitar Hero. Needless to say, I’m pretty happy with the solution… Because it was free and it works.
Capstrat, other things on the mind
I purposefully made this site really simple to update and maintain in the hopes that I’d actually do it. And if I actually do it, that means my goal of having a nice, updatable portfolio site approaches fruition. Anyway, a little about what’s going on in life right now:
I’ve got an internship going on at CapStrat. Mostly After Effects animation work with some Final Cut and other editing thrown in. I get to work with Carson Mataxis and Nathan Rittenhouse, the Dynamic Media team there, as well as Anson Burtch, the producer.
I’m also working at DELTA at NCSU as an Information Technology Specialist/Intern. Doing a lot of flash stuff over there, as well as video and sound editing, graphic design, hardware, whatever is needed.