I have just noticed that the search engines are directing queries about advice on the above question to this archive page. This page only refers to an advert that was letting my students know that a local store had a special price. Not much use to you now.

So that you are not too disappointed, I have created a page which gives a bit of advice and some relevant links on graphic tablets.

I have added a little bit more information to the web design pages, not much though. At the moment I am busy playing with 3D modelling software. If you are into 3d modelling, then make sure that you check out the cover CD's on the magazines in your local newsagent.

In the last week or two I have picked up Cinema 4D version 5SE, Poser 3 and Amapi 3D version 5.1. Most of the time these programs appear to do the rounds of the magazines, appearing on various mag's at different times. So if you miss one, you may pick it up on a different magazine.

Students may now enrol in the Animation and 3D Modelling courses. The days and times are shown below.

These are both complex subjects so you will need to attend both sessions each week.

Wednesday night 6.00 - 9.-00

Saturday morning 9.00 - 12.00

These modules usually fill up very quickly, so don't delay

Remember you will need to attend both sessions

Sorry about the delay in updating the site. It came about due to a major upgrade to my computer, combined with a decision to strip the hard drives and reinstall everything from scratch.

According to the plan, it should have taken 24 - 48 hours. Well you know what they say about the best laid plans etc. etc.

I won't bore you with all the details, like the supplier not mentioning when taking the order, that they would be out of stock of DDR RAM for 3 days, or the BIOS on the new motherboard reporting faulty memory, when it was really a faulty motherboard. Or a public holiday adding another days delay to the delivery.

The biggest mistake was mine, in assuming that I would receive working parts on the day that they were promised and removing all of the software from the computer, to speed up the changeover!

Anyway, everything is working fine now, so the only delays in updating the site will be the usual ones, caused by my preference for creating images, rather than creating web pages.

Anyway, gotta go now. I've so far only installed Windows and Dreamweaver, so I'll be spending the rest of the day installing software.

New Gallery Added
I have just added a gallery to showcase some of the images that I have created with the Blender 3D modelling program. Hope you like it

This page was getting rather large as more and more items were added to the top of the page. To fix this I have decided to archive the news pages. This means that this page will now load quickly again.

The previous news items are still available through the links at the bottom of this page. I have done the same thing to the Multimedia Courses page as this was starting to suffer from the same problem

All of the archive pages will be available as long as they are being accessed. If any of the archives don't get visited for over a month then I will remove them from the server.

I am planning to move any of the external links that I have given you on these pages to a General Links Page. So the links will still be available even if the original pages disappear.

I have finally made a start on expanding the image galleries. I have added a link for an Expressions page, and have added a few images to it.

I have decided to group the images by the software used to create them, as I tend to work with one program for a while and then, when I get bored I move onto another program.

Actually I have spent the last week or two working with Painter, so I will start a Painter gallery next.

I have just added the Gallery for Painter images, together with a couple of new images created with this software.

If you have attended any of my classes, then you will know that I keep on saying that a mouse is not the best tool for working with graphics programs. I have always told you that a graphics tablet makes things far easier.

Well here is your chance to grab one at a really good price. You can save $50 if you jump in before 1st May 2002.

Sorry about the delay in updating the web site, but to be honest, I don't find creating web pages as interesting as creating images. So the web site tends to get put at the bottom of the to do list.