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> In article <3en27l$[e-mail]>, Steve <[e-mail]> says:
> >
> >john bunnell <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Jim, I know John has problems getting enough articles with the
> >> present situation...
> >
> It's tough to make a magazine that's going to make everyone happy,
> especially those who are already expending a great deal of effort
> to learn everything possible about a given 3D program.  It's not as
> if there's some great font of wisdom in the wilderness that has yet
> to be seen by man, and can be mined for a new magazine.  If you're
> already reading the nets, buying demo tapes, reading books, then
> it's tough to see where you're going to get *new* information, or
> even info that seems new.  If some tip appears on the net, and you
> see it in print two months later, it's going to seem old.


Why does information have to be "new"?  Information is power.  The
more resources you have, as well as reinforcement, the better you
will become.  If you animate full time like I do, you can never know
when a situation will come up where you'll need that information.
Just this week, I referred back to an old article (1992)
written by David Hopkins. The information he wrote about wasn't new
at the time I read it, nor was it now... but it was the information
I needed, to remind myself of a great technique to get the job done.

Lee's tapes for example, are a tremendous resource.  You could watch
them dozens of times, and still pick up on a tip or trick you
overlooked before.

As soon as you stop learning, you might as well just cash it in.


-Dan Ablan