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.
Living Sustainably as a Design Student
A friend of mine recently pointed me to this article, and I can’t think of something I need more right now than some pointers on how to sustain myself as a creative student.
Living Sustainably as a Design Student
It really is true that the schedules are hectic and demanding, often times draining the rest of your life with only the promise that someday you’ll be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Learning to enjoy things and keep an active balance right now are more important to me than anything, and my inspiration absolutely depends on it.
I mean, it isn’t just a non-stop string of staying up all night, furiously drawing and sweating bullets out of the passion for the idea. If you keep pouring your soul into things, eventually you’re going to run out.
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.