Ah, Portland. I’m so thankful for air conditioning. Who’d have thought it’d be 102° in Portland, Oregon yesterday? Not only was it hot outside, but it was hot inside as well. The Portland SWUGN Summit took place yesterday and, IMO, was a great success. Adam Scheible and Richard Doyle did an excellent job of puitting it together. Matt Lombard was his usual, impressive, self. I saw two of his presentations and he’s a great speaker. Plenty of useful content, interjected with humor. It helps to keep the audience involved. His presentation on surfacing opened up my eyes, and I know realize that I, too, can use surfacing. (You can check out his write-up about Portland here.)
Devon Sowell did a presentation on Animator. He showed how he’s created his part and assembly templates with animations built right in. It was one of those things that’s right in front of your face but you never see it ideas. I liked his POV animation technique as well. Mounting the camera to a "man" in SolidWorks. Devon is one smart guy, or at least I thought he was. Then he asked if he could interview me for his blog. Now I’m wondering if he isn’t more of an idiot savant…just kidding, Devon. I’ve never done an interview before. Thanks for thinking that I’m interesting enough to warrant one.
Now onto the fun stuff. Perhaps it’s time for Richard Doyle (SWUGN’s fearless leader) to be checked out for Alzheimer’s…or to go in for a UA. As you may know, Richard likes to quiz the summit’s attendees during lunch. Yesterday, he asked Devon and I to pass out the quizzes which we did. Matt then comes up and shows me that the quizzes already have the answers on them. Devon and I raced around the room gathering up the erroneous quizzes while wondering where Richard had gone off to. Naturally, Richard attempted to place the blame on Kinko’s but I’m not buying it. We all got a good laugh out of that one. The one good thing about said faux pas was that the answers didn’t correlate to the quiz.
I wasn’t overly pleased with my presentation, but I did receive a number of positive comments so maybe I’m being too hard on myself. My biggest mistake was thinking it was only 45 minutes long, not the 90 minutes that it was. If it weren’t for some great questions from the audience, I would have run out of material. I don’t possess the gift of gab like Richard and Matt.
Thanks to Richard and Adam for having me. I look forward to being able to present again in the future. Next time I promise to have plenty of material!
