For those of you not reading the news, Ian Waters has joined the EITG Team as a Development Specialist.
http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/news/article/photons_are_alive_telsa_screen_shot_ian_waters_joins_eitg/

Congratulation Ian, you are a great asset for EITG and I’m sure this EI Community agree that your contribution is invaluable. Thanks for all the hard work!

Rick

Ian,
Make sure you get the special EIAS Team Shirt and key Chain! 

Congratulations, I concur with Rick.  I’m glad your staying so involved. Thanks for everything.

Yon

I second Richard , huge contributor like i always said to Richard i do not know where you get the time to make video tutorials
Edgard

Congratulations Ian, all the best.

Slave1

Fantastic news Ian,

I’ve been using ei since 1994 (and I’m STILL rendering!) and your video tutorials really got me “over the hump” of “new fangled” features like GI and `hdri maps. Without your help I’d still be mumbling unconvincingly that phong rendering was actually still far superior to maxwell etc… I tried to shift allegiances to c4d and max a few times (and hated both!) but you helped me “keep the faith” with the best interface out there.

Thanks again, congratulations & keep up the good work!

Great News Ian,

Finally I think EITG has the man to ‘DEVELOP’ the new documentation and training videos which is very much lag behind the progress of the software.

Looking forward to that.

Congrats Ian

I am an Architect and I´ve use EI since 2002.
I am not very active in the community, but I´ve sure noticed your contributions, you are an inspiration. Thank you for all yor contributions.

Milton

Ian,
Those great videos ended up making a great resume. Not to mention every render of yours happens to be jaw-dropping.

Congratulations!

Ross

Thanks everyone, it’s very nice to hear such things

Onwards and upwards,
Ian