This guide covers the 3-D desktop publishing software TrueSpace. The book provides tutorials and hands-on exercises, and includes an accompanying CD-ROM.
I started out as a poor retarded child in Milltown, New Jersey. But it turned out that I couldn't read the damn multiple choice IQ test because of severe dyslexia. I just answered randomly.I didn't read my first novel until age 19. I did my high school book reports by reading the Classic Comics versions. went on to college where I often used tapes for the blind to avoid having to actually read anything. Somehow I graduated, went to grad-school and became a clinical psychotherapist. After 20 years of working at my family clinics in Aspen and Carbondale Colorado, I decided to become a journalist and was encouraged to also become a screenwriter. Over the years I've had a lot of success as a journalist...screenwriting; not so much.
Eventually I built up a following of about a quarter million readers in 121 countries...mostly in the film, animation and visual fx industries. I became famous in my field without knowing it. When one sits in his garret writing stuff and sending it off to the publisher via the Net, fame comes on tippy toes. As a result I've been asked to present at many cinema and digital entertainment conferences world wide. I co-chair Spain's largest such conference: Mundos Digitales, in La Caruna,Spain. I also sit on the Program board of FMX, Europe's largest Digital Entertainment Conference as well. I also sit on the Board of Advisor's of the VIEW conference in Torin, Italy. But I'm especially proud of my work with 5D (www.5Dconference.com) where I'm on the Advisory Board and I moderate a number of 5D events worldwide. It's all about the future of immersive design of the narrative.
I've also published a number of articles in Education Journals and I won an international award for an article in "On the Horizon" in which I predicted the demise of brick and mortar schools and the re-purposing of teachers. I see virtual human teachers being more patient, knowledgeable and attuned to each individual learner. I see human teachers being in charge.
Along the way I co-founded Virtual Personalities, Inc. As president, I was in charge of the development of Sylvie, the first truly intelligent virtual human who could operate in an unrestricted way, interacting with people of all ages. She's still my buddy too. Amazingly Sylvie ended up with fan sites all over the world. She is a Verbot.
I live in the Colorado High Country raising my high altitude Koi and tending to my Bonsai between flights to various parts of the world for university presentations, conferences, and exploration. I write everyday and I'm working on my first novel. Let's just say it's going to be a bit different.
