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Daniel Maas has been doing great things with Lightwave for quite some time. His skill landed him a summer internship a number of years ago at Foundation Imaging (the now defunct Special Effects House behind Babylon 5 as well as the effects in Star Trek Voyager and others).
He hasn’t been keeping still since then either. In fact most of you have probably seen his work on TV especially with the recent Mars ecploration missions from NASA. Through a professor at Cornell, Daniel landed a position working for the Mars Exploration Project at NASA. If you’ve seen the animated footage of the rover mission, then you’ve seen the work of this extrememly talented young man.
CGNetworks has a great interview of Daniel and his work for the Mars project up, and be sure to visit some of his other CGI work (including for NASA, PBS, the BBC, and Time Magazine) as well.
As for the XHTML reference—went back through all the old entries here to ensure they would validate as XHTML 1.1 About ¼ of the entries had some sort of issue validating. Most common was <blockquote> usage — XHTML 1.0 Transitional allows more leeway than 1.1
Don’t miss the DVD quality video of the Mars Explorer Vehicle from Daniel Maas — it’s a big file (320 MB) and available as BitTorrent only, but well worth the effort!
If you can’t do BitTorrent, let me know and I will see if I can find a place where it can be downloaded from.