[digital] Modeling

Foreword

Several years ago, while I was trying to finish my first book, exhausted, demoralized, and with a deadline looming, my publisher told me I needed some sort of CG expert—some well-known public figure—to read a draft and write a foreword for my book. I told him I didn’t know anyone who matched the description, because back in those days I was just a struggling artist and had met only a handful of others who pursued computer animation as a career. You have to remember, there just weren’t that many of us in those days. “I have just the person,” he said. “Proton.”

“What’s a Proton, other than a positively charged subatomic particle?” I asked.

“Exactly,” he replied.

I was pretty puzzled at the time, but I soon came to learn exactly what he ...