Two shameless plugs in one entry
It's a small world after all...I'm starting to see the weaving of the world and how we all interact. My former employer whom I will still plug as me gots stock and I actually think the product is very cool. That many Europeans can't be wrong. Americans can be slow to adopt sometimes. Anyhoo, Lately, DivX is attempting to be a better YouTube/mySpace by creating a community of vloggers. The cool thing is though is they're creating content too and getting involved with the REAL community of San Diego and things in California. I find this admirable and thinking of getting me an inexpensive camera to play with.... as they have an embedded web codec too...me thinks I will be posting boring videos of my dogs soon. (oh boy) jk
Part of their coverage of ComicCon included YES an alumni of the Viz Lab Rueben DeLuna who is a wonderful artist trying to get paid to do what he does best. I'm thinking the 3D aspect of visual effects didn't do it for him either. It's interesting though that all of his comrades at his online comics company Lunar Comics all have intentions or are in the VizLab too. I wonder if this comes from A&M lacking any real art programs that people feel they have to go into this grad program to get any kind of art help. Sad...but part of me thinks they would do fine without spending the 50k or more as they're already very talented.
More power to you guys. 