For my work as a TA at NMSU I was asked to find a way to revamp a lesson for a lighting and texturing class. I pitched this idea of a hybrid rat-man, the professor liked the idea and asked me to throw in some redneck or hick into him (so I did). Along the way i experimented with Xgen to see if it was a reasonable addition to the lesson, and awesomely it only increased render times by 10-ish seconds and was super intuitive after you did some experimenting. Im so excited to see where students take this in the future!