kainoa Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 Just for fun (and curiosity), howz bout a short/brief listing of your career path. Here's mine: began u of hawaii in school of archswitched to graphic designbegan working for an eng/planning/arch firm as graphic designerbegan working at a CG studio called Square USA as a junior artistgraduated college with a BFA in graphic designgot laid off at Square (co went under)still at e/p/a firm but now doing web design and some 3d [ March 19, 2003, 04:13 PM: Message edited by: kainoa ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 - started early pixel-painting for knittery patterns, discovering marvellous techniques for anti-aliasing and rasterizing (as a small kid) - spoiled ages on cycling, playing piano and hunting g/f's - made tons of mod-files (4track music scores) (as a teenager) - graduated in science & maths - started using autocad - architectural study - studied 3d with wolfenstein, myst, doom, indiana jones, tie-fighter... etc. - got my hands dirty at contemporary art installations - dug into 3dsdos3, photoshop... - graduated somewhere in 1998 - architectural traineeship and freelance designer - changed peer - nearly started first company in 1999 - finally took off with AMS in 2000 - additional teacher degree - finished traineeship by the end of 2001 - full time AMS ever since... - moderator at cgarchitect (about a year ago?) - died at the age of 37 edit: cgamod [ April 02, 2003, 04:19 PM: Message edited by: nisus ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainoa Posted March 20, 2003 Author Share Posted March 20, 2003 orangeno How does nisus die @ 37? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Ran over by a tram or so, while reading a very interesting book walking downtown... Or a simple hart-attack or brain bleeding... like my dad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainoa Posted March 21, 2003 Author Share Posted March 21, 2003 Oh..sorry to here that . Maybe I should start purchasing some of nisuss' pieces as they are sure to be worth a lot of money once he has gone . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Originally posted by nisus: ... (as a small kid) ... What, you were smaller than today ?? ingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Yes Mr. BI(n)G(o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 idd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 Cool thread. Here's my path: - High School: drafting and CAD for 3 years - won a city home design competition getting honorable mentions and first place my last year. - Technical college: Drafting, model building, and a bit of design and layout. Won the college level of the same competition above. - Worked for a home builder and land developer in between years at school drafting plans, doing brochure layouts and some marketing. - Once I graduated I worked for a year and a half for a local Estate home builder doing design, drafting and 3D. - SMED International: (7 years) - Senior Visualization artist, Web guy, 3D R&D - CGarchitect.com - Smoothe Creative Director Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 oooo, i want a go 1) come from artistic family, i've always been drawing and painting as long as i can remember 2) left school at 17 (about 13 years ago) with 4 basic GCSE exams 3) joined local firm of architects as apprentice going to college 1 day a week to earn basic qualification. this went on for 2 years. i learned autocad in this 2 year period. 4) one of the firm's partners decided to leave and set up his own computer graphics firm (still working on 286's at the time). so i went with him. 5) stayed there for 5 or 6 years acting as a cgi beurux for local firms. 6) firm collapsed about 5 years ago and i moved to big firm of UK architects doing all their in-house cgi. been there ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 7) getting married soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Originally posted by nisus: 7) getting married soon ahem... thank you nisus. i didn't forget...honest. lol :gebigeek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gleggers Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Okay my turn!... - Studied Interior design at Leeds University, UK. - Whilst at Uni, worked weekends and holidays for Devise ( a 3D production studio in Halifax nr. Leeds ). - After Uni, moved to London to work for the architectural practice Whinney Mackay Lewis ( now Woods Bagot London ). - Helped set up AROS, a design studio comprised of ex-WML colleagues. - Freelanced my services in London for architectural and branding design studios. - Now working as a designer at Smoothe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 woaw, very highschool type of..... mine would be too long to write here.... (and very boring) :angecool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 My father is a residential designer (like an architect but no lic), mother is a realtor. - In highschool worked construction and made foam board models for my father. -Went to NYU studied expieramental theatre. - Didn't graduate went to Europe for 5 months, and India for 5 months. -Got married -Moved to Cali. -Learned CAD. -First drafting job started learning Viz. -Decicded that there was a huge future in this stuff. -Bought own seat of max 4. -Lost a lot of sleep trying to learn this stuff. -Had a baby lost even more sleep. -Loosing more sleep from lots of cool work. -keep hoping I can get a job doing 3d for a great firm ful time but I think I am going to have to create that firm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 My father is a furniture designer and my closest uncle is an architect and I would always draw that type of stuff when I was a kid so I pretty much knew I wanted to do something design orientated. Never drew animals n stuff. You're not allowed to design those. Then I... Finished highschool.Started studying surveying (the chance of huge money in mine surveying got me on to that one but I absolutley hated it and left after 8 weeks).Went back to England for a few years.Came back to Australia and did a Building Design Diploma (pretty much a drafting course with extra colouring in).Worked during the last year of that diploma for a residential builder.After that, worked for an architect on train stations and highschools, and other boring governmental buildings.Now studying Architecture full-time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipT Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Ha, I think Nisus gets the biscuits, but heres a two penneth: Started out as a computer science student and then went to work for a research company building automonous robots for uni researchers. Learnt lots of fun stuff about laser scanning, robot navigation, behavioural AI and how to build datagloves and other add ons for early VR and telepresence systems (this was around 1991). Worked with some small start/up companies and had bouts of washing dishes and other such jobs when discovered startup companies are not allways the most stable income - but did get to learn a lot about the importance of cashflow and project management etc.. Eventually ended up working at Salford Uni, researching VR and Construction and got to learn about about how buildings were designed and made, as well as interface and architectural design and design processes... Since then - mixture of freelance and contract work as information systems and visualisation developer. Oh and after far far too long i learned how to programm and some stuff about maths...(Ahem). These days work with a cool team of people largely on heritage visualisation, though still with some web, info system and technology consulting roles.. Fun stuff indeed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_A Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Gotta try to catch up to nisus on the post count somehow... - High School (didn't apply myself) - 1 semester of Mechanical Engineering (didn't like it) - Bachelor of Industrial Design degree ('small stuff', love it) - Master of Community Planning degree ('big stuff', love it) - Designer with large Southeastern (USA) A&E firm - In-house 3D and Visualization specialist with same firm - Left firm (burned out) - Freelance + adjunct teaching at nearby university Never used 3D prior to graduate school (the 286's were a little slow anyway), learning rendering and sketching techniques with pencils, pens, and markers, while trying to explain to my parents that I wasn't just "coloring". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 forgot the cgamod-stuff... edited first post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supaslims Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 mmmm ok - Always had an ability with pen and paper - Finished high school where i became interested in contemporary art - Started university (Tasmania): bachelor of fine art, during that time a friend got a copy of lightwave 5, thought it was interesting so i did the same, learning in my spare time. - Had success in fine art with travelling exhibitions of my painting and drawings to Helsinki, Madrid etc - Moved to melbourne and completed masters in art, design and communication. still playing with lightwave all along. - Working as a fashion designer for a year (long story!!!)I was fired last monday - Picked up contracts with a few archi firms and have received government funding for 12 months to start own business. - Still doing fine art when i have time and having exhibitions now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 -Was Born. -Enjoyed Science. -Went mad crazy with science in High School -Went to the Univeristy of Maryland for a Degree in Microbiology. -Found Quake1 -Failed lots of Science courses. -Tried to make computer faster for quake1 -Started making quake1 backgrounds -Everyone liked quake1 backgrounds, wanted 3d backgrounds. -Started using bryce -hated bryce -figured out how to make the computer way faster -everyone else wanted to know how -Found 3dluvr.com and became one of the first users. -Wrote articles on how to make computers faster -Learned 3dsmax -Switched to Traditional Arts program at UMCP. -Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts...with a minor in microbiology (hehe) -Got a job at a dot.com -quit the job at the dot.com -worked for College Park Magazine -Asked by Discreet to become an [FA] for hardware/tech assistance -worked for department of entomology (research) -fixed their computers -formed thirdeye studios -designed furniture -became full admin, published in research paper. -Quit Discreet as an [FA] (Resigned) -recently published in interior design mag -four tables on market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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