Making our Mark in Boston..

Avid Interim CEO Nancy Hawthorne

You know what's cool about working for Softimage? Being reminded every once in a while of all the other cool companies and products under the Avid umbrella.

Yesterday was the 'Make Your Mark' event in Boston, and it was such a blast seeing all the cool products from M-Audio, Digidesign and Avid.

I SO need to try TORQ now! http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/TorqXponent-main.html

Steve Hassan & Sharon Holm of Avid

PSYOP's Todd Akita presenting

The Rondo Brothers using M-Audio

Todd and Softimage's Chinny "Make Their Mark"

This event was a departure from other seminars we have done.. it was the first audio-3D-video seminar with all the divisions of Avid. The event opened with a panel of industry experts (including Modus FX's Marc Bourbonnais representing 3D) talking about what students and artists can do to get noticed by professionals. While the panel was heavily skewed to audio and the use of myspace pages to get noticed, all the panelists agreed that using the web is a premiere was to get yourself marketed.

Networking is key to get a job in the industry.. so work with your teachers and your contacts.. go to events, mingle, introduce yourself.. From the CG side - be online, post your work, get on the industry forums - it's key to.. "Making Your Mark!"

Next week we hit NYC.. Chris Johnson and Young Jang will be representing CG for the event.

For more info about next week's event, go to: http://makeyourmark.avid.com/