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Re: Website
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:05:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Bram Lambrecht writes:
"Karim" <knassar@mindspring.com> writes:
Thanks, Bram.  Although, I already new about this stuff.  I work with
Alias Studio on a daily basis, so I am very into rendering.

Augh, I knew you were in ID, I should have known you would know all about
this stuff.  Maybe someone else will benefit from the knowledge.

No problem :) I'm sure a lot of people will/have benefitted from your work.

I realise that they are pretty crummy renders, but alas, I don't get
paid for Pallas Spaceworks :)

Wouldn't that be great!  Are you working for an ID firm right now?

Right now, I'm working as a Web designer... Sort of ID.  I graduate in
December, though.  In the past ocuple of years, I've worked for an Architecture
firm here in NC, and an Industrial Design firm in Japan.

I'm
interested in ID, but I also like math, which doesn't seem to be focused
on much in design departments.  At the Cleveland Institute of Art, the
person I spoke to recommended that I first pursue my engineering
interests at the undergrad level, and then maybe look into ID for grad
studies.  I'd like to take some art and design courses in college,
though, which is the main reason I applied to Carnegie Mellon...I don't
know where I want to go yet...if I get into MIT, I'd like to go there,
but then again, there isn't much art at MIT, other than an Architecture
department...

Sounds like pretty decent advice. I got accepted at Carnegie Mellon, but did
not at all like their program when I visited them.  I ended up going to NC
State. I've been really happy in their Design school, though the fact that
students are given key codes to get into the Studios at all hours somehow
results in students going into Studio at all hours... :)

When you are looking at schools, don't be fooled by the prestige of the
University Name... look at the individual schools/colleges and their resources
and faculty.  I don't know how much has changed, but I remember that CMU Design
was really run-down and behind the times when I looked at them, while NCSU
School of Design has the second largest budget of any school or college in the
entire UNC school system (second only to UNC-Chapel Hill Medical School).  We
just got 15 NT machines running Alias Studio 8.5, and the plan for next year is
to get 30 more licenses (it's normally a $30,000 program) and a secure room
where students can bring their own machines and plug into the network to run
Alias (Wahoo!... too bad I'll only see that for a semester).

If you are ever in the Raleigh area, drop me a line, and I can show you around
the school.

Anyway, Good luck! :)

--Karim



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(...) Augh, I knew you were in ID, I should have known you would know all about this stuff. Maybe someone else will benefit from the knowledge. (...) Yeah, multiple models are a pain--which is why for the older models on my site, there are only one (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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