I had the awesome pleasure of attending this year's Advanced Digital Art Production Techniques (//ADAPT) conference in beautiful Montreal Canada.

Amongst the many memories I will take with me, here are my top 3:

1. The bright eyed, bushy tailed art students: It's so amazing to see that talent that is coming out of the art colleges and schools these days - what's more is their comfort and ability in using digital tools and techniques. After a 30 second introduction to Painter, and then being egged on by her friends, one particularly talented grade 10 student mesmerized her fellow classmates by drawing a beautiful Japanese anime-styled Warrior in 10 minutes! Unfortunately I don't have a picture, but I do have a photo of some of the students that dropped by our booth:

2. The art exposition: Adding to the amazing and talented students was their reactions when you showed them what could be done in Corel Painter... and that's where the art exposition came in. Student after person after professional, we kept being asked the question: "Was this done in Painter!?" while pointing to one of the art pieces, to which we smiled and nodded to their disbelief. The best were when people followed-up by saying: "But that looks so real!" to which I usually replied "That's what makes Corel Painter... Corel Painter." Thank you to everyone who submitted their art pieces!

3. Jason Manley & Andrew Jones: I was also fortunate enough to be able to attend some of the presentations, and by far one of my favorites what that of Jason Manley and Andrew Jones from Massive Black. With Jason and Andrew gave a fantastic in-depth presentation on colour theory. One of the highlights was Jason, getting off his chair and walking around the theatre asking loudly: "What's that colour?" while pointing at various points on the wall, "Can you see the green? It's everywhere."

Thanks you to everyone I met at //ADAPT in Montreal this year, and to the organizers of the event. For those of you who are in the neighbourhood next year and are thinking of going, don't hesitate, it's definitely worth it!