Tony Benjamin writes:


It’s an exciting time…


OK… OK… I’m not Chris. I’m not Dan. Frankly I don’t work out enough to be Chris, I’m too short to be Dan, and I doubt I’m intelligent enough to be either one. But I was asked to write a blog and so here it is… now where was I? …. Oh yeah…

…It’s an exciting time at DAZ 3D. For those of you who have been around for a while and watched the list of Bios on the website grow, you know we’ve been growing rapidly over the past year. But even you don’t know how fast. A small fraction of all the changes have shown up on that page.

In the last several months we have added seven additional people to our R&D team in Utah. That doesn’t even count the people we’ve added to our California office. DAZ’s army of programmers now includes former employees of Adobe and at least one of the original developers of Bryce, not to mention the best fresh talent in the country. They’ve come from as far as Michigan to join our Salt Lake Team, and from other continents to join our California team.

Brian Wagner, our new Director of R&D, Utah, was the person who originally wrote the render engine for Bryce. Wow, is he talented! Since his arrival, DAZ’s whole operational structure around software development has been revamped. Under his direction, we’re getting rid of “DAZ Soon” and replacing it with “DAZ Wow”. You wait and see what happens over the next year with DAZ software, and you’ll be past your current status of “impressed” and land on “Holy Cow.”

Of course it would be silly to overlook Charles Brissart, our Director of R&D, California. In addition to the recent update of Hexagon, his crew has been working for over a year on Carrara 6. Charles’ crew is also extremely talented. It’s exciting to have Carrara in the family, and if you’re a DAZ fan, you’re going to want Carrara 6.

… OK, now I can hear some of you already moving to the forums to drop a line about how “marketing” really wrote this and that I’m just a pawn under the total domination of the propaganda writers of DAZ… The reality is that I’m excited. DAZ is opening doors to places no one in the industry has been before. A year from now, not only will we be bigger but our content will be more dynamic and advanced than ever before.

I have to admit, I’m a little geeked.

Tony Benjamin
Director of Operations
www.DAZ3D.com

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