Seth Cameron Short / page 2 of 4
Seth invented the “Make Awesome” button in 1985 and has been mashing on it ever since.
Seth Cameron’s latest Journal entries…
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August 10 2011
Getting Myself to Draw
One of my favorite things about working at ADi is the way Kate (our President) keeps encouraging us in our personal development and in working better as a team. As part of this, we recently had a team-building day where we did all sorts of self-discovery and generally had a good time together. During our most recent event, we were encouraged to make an “outrageous commitment.” I was feeling really ambitious that day, so I decided that I would commit to draw a drawing every day for a month. It’s been…
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June 7 2011
Communicating Without Words
More and more frequently in the last few years, we’ve been working on projects that are intended to be seen by a variety of audiences around the world. The usual process for “localization” (customizing a project for a particular region) involves translating any text or voice content, changing colors or layout, or even replacing actors and photos where there might be cultural ramifications. As you might imagine, localization can be an expensive process. Our clients are usually on strict budgets (who isn’t nowadays?), so money spent on localizing a product is…
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February 4 2011
We Can Solve the World’s Problems by… Playing Video Games?
“Three billion hours a week is not nearly enough gameplay to solve the world’s most urgent problems.” This is the conclusion that researcher Jane McGonigal has come to. You can see her TED talk on the subject here. She’s brings up a lot of really interesting points on the topic, about problem-solving attitudes, work habits, gamer types and historical parallels, and how we can map game-style tasks over to real life. But in my mind, the concept is pretty basic, and goes something like this: Video games are, at their core, basically…
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December 7 2010
The Quest for a New File Server (Part 2)
This is continued from a previous post. Have a gander if you haven’t already. Okay, where were we? Oh yeah, the future. 3. Shop for the future We’ve had our current file system for about five years. It’s done a great job for us, and only recently have we started feeling cramped. I want the replacement system to serve us for at least that long, so it’s important to make sure that whatever solution I choose will still work for us in five years. Our demands on our equipment increase every year. This is…
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October 21 2010
The Quest for a New File Server (Part 1)
A couple weeks ago, we had a little accident here at the studio. The air conditioning in our server room was shut off inadverently, and it got pretty hot in there before we had a chance to fix the problem. Fortunately none of our servers or render boxes seem to have been affected. Unfortunately, though, we’ve begun having problems with our file storage system. These things tend to be very sensitive to heat, and we’re seeing the writing on the wall — it’s time to look for a replacement storage…
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