This one is going to have an adult warning on it because of a certain act by a terrible professor in front of his class...
Alright so it was 2006 and I was getting into game design, I decided to attend to Texas State Technical College, due to money issues, and moved to Waco Texas. The college had a relatively small video game program, it mostly consisted of two rooms, a motion capture room, and a large computer room where we would spend 6 to 8 hours each day.
There was only one professor dedicated to the program, and he wasn't very good. He was quick to anger, and taught very very fast, when you are learning to model in 3D, in a class that takes several hours each day, in a dark room where you cannot take notes. It can be easy to fall behind, and he did not care to repeat himself or to go over any parts of the lesson. Everything was going okay after the first semester but after the second semester I noticed how quickly he would get angry and would insult/abuse the students. At first being a young kid just out of high school I didn't do anything, but began to fell into depression as it seemed the abuse toward myself and others would get worse and worse because he would move through the lessons so fast that we could never get a full grasp on what he was saying and doing. At this point I actually began to teach myself over nights on how to use 3D modeling programs because I just was not learning it in the class room.
Over the summer it got worse, he would bring in illegally downloaded movies into the class, such as a camera version of Spider Man 3 and stream them during class for us to watch while worked. He would show up an hour or two late for class constantly, and when I would sit down with the supervisor of the program he would always get out of it, saying he was only showing a clip, or that he was not abusive toward us. I even at one point began to record him when I asked him why he was always so late to class just to get one of his abusive rants on tape.
The worst part, was when he was showing us a technique known as bump mapping. In Video Games to add more detail onto the model you would create a separate layer or more detailed model, and create a picture/texture of the detail, and overlay the picture/texture on the less detailed model. Now dirty little secret is, is that alot of video game models previously and maybe even still today, contain nude female genitalia that you cannot see because of the character's clothes. It's unnecessary, but it's in there. Anyway he was showing the bump map texture of a female 3D model. The student next to me was asleep, as we were 4 hours into a six hour class. He had the other students wake the sleeping student up, and pointed to the overhead projector. "What's this?" He smirked, asking the sleeping student while zooming in on the breast portion of the female model's texture. He then began to run his cursor around the nipple over and over again as some of the kids laughed, others remained silent.
I again brought it up to his superior only for him to tell me in the meeting that, that never happened. Regardless by my 5th semester at the college I decided to transfer to a community college back home and never heard or saw him again.
