On August 5th through the 9th, companies in the 3D industry along with over 30 thousand industry professionals attended SIGGRAPH in San Diego, CA. DAVE School students, grads and teachers also attended.

Block 1 Instructor, William Vaughan took front stage at the NewTek booth to do demonstrations of LightWave 3D. Known in the 3D community as the LightWave Evangelist, William not only demonstrated the software but fielded questions and introduced the students and grads to studios at the show. Instructor Ron Thornton also got a chance to talk on the main stage and show off the latest school movie Auroura and talk about his career in the field. There were several Dave school movies screened at the NewTek and Boxx booths throughout the show.

The day after SIGGRAPH, graduates working out in LA met up with William for breakfast and to discuss their careers and experiences. William then stopped by Radical 3D for lunch, a tour and to talk to the 10 graduates and see what they have been up to working on the History channel's Dogfight series.

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Graduate Nathan Wood recently accepted a job doing Level Design for TimeGate Studios in Sugarland, Texas. TimeGate is best known for their game series Kohan and for F.E.A.R. Extraction Point.

Graduates Jana Yarbrough and Erik Bee are on their way to Memphis, Tennessee where they accepted internships at Paradigm Productions.

Congratulations on your new careers!

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Block 3 has recently finished an assignment called "Real Life Lighting". The goal of the assignment was to take an assigned character and put it into a scene that was provided. They needed to make it look like it was not out of place in the scene but belonged there.

"This assignment was a great way to prepare us for what we will encounter in the field. Not only did we have to animate the characters realistically, but we had to match it seamlessly into the existing footage. It was a great challenge!" quoted Block 3 student Derek Serra.