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From: [e-mail] (Mike Harlock)
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Subject: Re: Farmer LW's Render Farm
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> If you want to be in business, like alot of the people here, do what most
> of them did:  Get a loan.  Or, do a couple of projects on your
> over-priced/under-powered amiga system.  It works just like the
> under-priced/over-powered PC system.  Most of the people that I know that
> do professional animation, started with a system like yours, did a couple
> of paying projects, bought a little more, and now, after a couple of
> years, they're at the point of being able to buy a Carerra for a single
> project and pay it off with that project.

Agreed.  Some of us have a saying:
  If you can't afford it, you don't need it.

Meaning, you can use what you've got to do jobs at the caliber of your
equipment, and gradually earn enough money to upgrade.

I went ahead and did the loan thing, and have a $6000 A4000 dream system,
currently.   It's been paying for itself nicely so far.  It's a good starting
point, and sometime in the near future I'll be pulling in enough for
more goodies to get the job done.

>
> > BTW : anybody in the SF bay area want to pool resources and start a
> > co-op / joint venture arrangement of some kind?  I want to do this
> > full time so bad I can taste it...

A few of us here on the Peninsula are doing a lot of freelance graphics
design and toaster remotes (using the toaster as a field switcher)
My friends are to the point where they have a small office space and
a company name.  (doing the above perscribed technique of slowly building
up their equipment, jobs, etc)
Occasionally, they get more jobs than they can handle.   I've been wanting to
form an informal pool of serious and dedicated lightwave/toaster users
with a video background (We're all broadcast graduates) who will all
scratch each others backs.  We do alot of networking now, and it works
out nicely for everyone involved.   Among us we have two toasters, a flyer
and I have a PAR.

Why don't you Email me (the one who's in the SF bay) and we'll talk.


> >
> > Brian
>
> I'm not ragging on you in specific, it's just that I keep seeing people
> complaning that the software is too expensive, can't afford to buy two
> copies, and, damn it, it's just not fair.  It's our god-given right to
> use Lightwave.

Agreed.   Anyone who's browsed around video catalogs before NewTek hit
the scene should probably bow and worship them for shattering the
trend of double and triple pricing anything that's used for industrial
and broadcast and other media.

Hmm..it's all in the eye of the beholder.  You have to zoom out a little
and look at your situation in a different way. ;)

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