so much yes

hazardous from Polycount talking about working to get into the industry 

http://theartofglenkeane.blogspot.com/2006/06/beast.html

Portland/CreativeMornings - Aaron James Draplin from CreativeMornings/Portland on Vimeo.

Our speaker at the March 2012 Portland/CreativeMornings was Aaron James Draplin (http://www.draplin.com). The event was generously hosted by Ziba (http://ziba.com) and sponsored by 52 Limited (http://www.52ltd.com). Many thanks to Pro Photo Supply (http://prophotosupply.com) for lending us the gear to capture the talk and to Paul Searle (http://psearle.com) for shooting and editing this video.