Topic: Talents?

I assume we've all got some.  There's a defunked database out there somewhere in which we listed our fan-film related skills.

Is there still a use for anything like that around here? I'll stand up and get the ball rolling...

I'm drew and:
I edit video in Premiere and can do just about everything that AE does.
Of course, also Encore for DVD and BluRay authoring, I can get good results compressing to web-streaming formats.
I use 3DSmax, for a long time now, and I'm assembling a small render farm.
I can usually write scripts (particularly in Max and AE) for whatever I need to automate.
I've got my own Canon T1i, access to the whole range of lenses from fisheye to a 200mm f/1.7, a 5D, a few GoPro's and other HD video capture rigs.
I've got a decent mic and setup for recording, and a somewhat Kermit-y voice without the pleasant overtones.

I'm running at least two major projects right now, but I'm always up for a quick change of pace for a few days.  I've been busy pretty steadily on one thing or another for 5 or 6 years on numerous volunteer-level video things.  No, I don't get out much.

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I was a volunteer fireman, so if stuff catches fire I can ... help you call the fire brigade from my location on the other side of the planet.

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3 (edited by drewjmore 2012-03-24 16:59:31)

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What's the allure of being a volunteer fireman? 
Is it pure altruism, or is it all the chicks you get after saving them?

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I draw and paint.

I occasionally make music when I get the fancy. I use the term "music" loosely.

I write a lot of stuff. Mostly movie ideas and treatments.

I do a lot of 3D modelling. I used to do it a lot more than I do now - like all the god damn time, every day - because I wanted to work in the games industry making 3D graphics and/or animation, but then the videogame industry decided that the best course of action was to make game graphics look as generic and lifeless as possible while simultaneously falling further and further down into the uncanny valley, and that making said graphics should be the most soul-crushingly uncreative and tedious thing you could possibly do. The people who play games seem to mostly agree that this was a good decision. I have my doubts.

I'm getting a lot of animation practice lately as well...

I have one project that I'm working on right now, and several more lined up and ready to go.

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Allure? Helping people. Hardest, but most rewarding thing I've done.

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I've always been interested in being a firefighter, just never cowboyed up to try it.  Mostly I burn stuff and leave the putting out to lack of fuel. ;-)

Sqig, whachu workin on?

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7 (edited by Squiggly_P 2012-04-03 20:45:21)

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I watched that whole thing. Good times.

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It's like watching that dude in my homeroom class that could draw, only I never have to look away and pretend to be uninterested.

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I am always amazed at the talented artists on this forum. I personally cannot draw worth anything. My attempts have been mostly mash ups of other people's works. I hate being that guy who asks for help for doing photoshop work or rendering, so I just ooh and aww at pretty pictures.

I prefer to write, especially science fiction, especially military scifi. Writing is really my only talent.

God loves you!

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