I've been invited to present at a webinar for the San Diego Lightwave User's group on January 26th. I've presented there once before (telecommute, of course). This time around, I'll be covering the topic of keyframe management and other cool 3d animation tricks.
I know... not what most people read the news posts on NG for, but I figured I'd explain the reason for the image created below.
VicariousE
Is it a paying gig?
Tanadrine-Studios
Not this time around but it looks good on my portfolio. It is also free exposure for the Delura series and it could attract contributors down the road. Finding skilled 3d animators who would be interested in working on a project like this is especially hard; not only are there very few of them, but animation is one of the hardest things to transfer from 3d program to program (If the contributor isn't using Lightwave, then they have to construct their own rigs from scratch to move the characters).