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I’ve been making steady progress on my new year’s resolutions and I can honestly check off all but one of them as of a this site’s redesign. With the exception of reading more novels, I’m feeling good about the progress I’ve made so far this year.

Then last week Alex Lindsay of the Pixel Corps drops a new challenge in my lap…joining up with the Pixel Corps. The Pixel Corps is a essentially a guild for what they call “digital craftsmen.” Basically that boils down to providing access to software, training, community and everything in between for editors, compositors, animators and everything other kind of visual fx artist you can think of. I’ve been wanting to join up for years, but the steep 50 dollar a month price tag has always kept me from joining. As I said, that all changed last week when Alex announced that for the entire summer a pxc membership would be only 50 bucks! That’s four months of access to training on more than 50,000 dollars worth of software, how could I resist? So this past weekend I’ve been familiarizing myself with their forums and checking out boujou, which is an amazing piece of match-moving software by 2d3.

As I said, I’ve spent a large portion of the weekend screwing around with software that I’d never have a chance to learn without resorting to nefarious means. Now I can kick back in the comfort of my home office and immerse myself in the next wave of my education. I love having time to learn now that I’ve graduated from a institute of higher learning. As I’ve said before, college is about learning how to learn…you choose what to discover next.

If you are thinking about signing up for the Pixel Corps summer training use the code PXC50 on checkout to get the discount. Oh, and these people aren’t just academics or instructors as they’ve worked on everything from commercials to a certain little film entitled Star Wars. Not bad for 50 bucks, eh?