Jim Lammers:  

Life I got my BSEE in 1987 from an MU coordinated engineering program that let me live at home and go to school at UMKC. I got a few scholarships my senior year at Center - one for a poster I created, one from UMKC and another from KC Power and Light. That helped me get through school. I also taught guitar from 83 to 86 at Turner Music at Metcalf South. Despite going to a commuter school I did get a taste of "Animal House" when I joined a fraternity (Sig-Ep). They did have good parties. I worked at Rockwell (now Boeing) in LA from 1987-1989. It was a lot of fun and I made some great friends while working on a "Star Wars" related program at the Electro-Optical Center. I dabbled in the songwriting scene in LA while I lived there. I moved back to KC and bought a house in 1990. I started my own computer graphics firm in 1993 and named it Trinity Animation. This was a hobby in the early 1990s that gradually became a business for me, and I went full time in 1994. I hired my first employees in 1996. Right now I have 8. My firm did effects work on the Sony/Tristar film "Starship Troopers" in 1997, and we got some local press for that. It was a lucky break on a film that people remember. But we don't really focus on Hollywood stuff, it's hard to do that in KC without flying all the time. We mostly produce architectural renderings, technical presentations, and also create designs for manufacture. Trinit...Expand for more