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Link of the Day Funcom

As I promised last week, here is the basic tour of my room. You can tell I still have many Gnomon training dvds to go through. Two hours of teaching is in each of those cases (56 hours left). I’ve also included a picture of my insane dvd collection of now over 150 movies and tv shows. I managed to get the Maya 1 manuals during my sophomore year for free from a computer science graphics professor who didn’t need them anymore. The other two images are of stuff I bought in a few of the countries I’ve been too: China, New Zealand, and Mexico.

Link of the Day Alias (creator of Maya)

Well, I’ve bought Maya 7 Unlimited, the Invader Zim series, and music from Maksim, my favorite artist. I did this all in about two weeks! I’m so excited to have all this new material at my disposal. Maya unlimited came packaged with tons of training books. I also have the gnomon dvds that I bought last year and have been watching for a while. I’ll be learning much more with the unlimited version now. I almost can’t wait until the semester ends and Christmas break comes! I think I’ll give a brief tour of cool stuff in my room from around the globe next week.

Link of the Day Hatch Production

I’ve been getting many new ideas for movies and animations over the course of this semester. Usually, I’m riding on a bus or I’m listening to someone explaining something. The feeling of a new idea is always so exciting. What’s even more exciting are the two new pieces of software I’m purchasing. I’ll soon have Maya 7 and Macromedia Studio 8 delivered. I almost can’t wait until Christmas break before I begin working with this software. That will more than likely happen. I’ve also been working on my comic/3d toon shaded animation series called doomination with my friend for the last month. I can’t release too many details because we want to actually present the project to companies to get capital.

I should also mention that my 150th official DVD in the collection is the Invader Zim television series collection. I even bought the house thing that includes the extras DVD. I can’t wait to open that up sometime. The style of that show rocks and reminds me of a good friend who introduced me to the show last summer. Well, I better get to my last class of the day.

Link of the Day Google Recruiting Video

Academic software is the best way any high school student can get ahead of their fellow students. For example, I can purchase Maya 7 Unlimited for $380 in comparison to the regular price of around $8,000. This blows the competition with the real market out of the water. I could become a grad student for a few years and personally achieve pro quality work for minimal cost. I can’t sell what I make, but I can take what I’ve done to film festivals and receive funding for more projects and upgrades to newer versions of academic software and newer equipment. This cycle seems to encourage us students to innovate extraordinarily.

As a producer, I own what I’ve created with the academic software. I can’t commercialize what is produced. Does this mean that my university owns a chunk of what I’ve made? Would buying new licenses allow a student to sell their creations after graduating? Students face a difficult situation because we’ve reached another gray area in legal matters. Any ideas?