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.