Some gratuitous imagery of a couple of nice guys. They don't always finish last, you know.

Below, the final end-of-show blowout of drawings at the NT booth, culminating in numberous sets of great LW training CDs, books, and DVDs, and of course, LW8. Kiki, Proton, and her little helper, the sweet girl who made sure that all of our entry forms were in the "fish bowl" for the drawings, took care of business.

Speaking of drawings: Some nice ones were going on all over the show (ATI, daily for FireGL graphics cards), including two massive drawings at Nvidia that included LW8, Maya, CDs, Games, DVDs, MotionBuilder 5, Quadra Graphics Cards, and on the second day, an $18,000 graphics workstation. The crowd was going nuts. Should I mention that I won none of those things. I did win, at the NewTek booth, the Kaze Ghost Warrior DVD by Timothy Albee (signed).