I post something to this effect almost every year so the older members already have jumped on board, and maybe you just don't want to, but why not let us know what part of the world you are from in the location part of your profile. You don't have to give a street adress or even city, how about just a general idea of what part of the world you are from. It helps when some of us are up late at night to know if we are talking to other insomniacs or people that just got up fresh from a full nights sleep.
We even have folks that live in a cardboard tube. I am from far northern California three hours north of San Francisco.
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a little sleepy seaside city called Espinho in Portugal... working in a building that is supposed to look like a boat... at least that's what the architect says...
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Hey Faze can you take a picture of the building I'd be interested in seeing it.
Pat
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And Echo I had to learn about Delaware and it's capitol to pass my "state's test" back in eighth grade, but I've never known anyone from there, it really is a state? You never hear any news about it. You guys must have a low crime rate, because you never seem to end up on the network news.
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No sales tax either...that's another claim to fame, if I remember correctly.
please, please, please people don't defend the architect, the building has no windows... We were lucky and got 2 of the 4 offices that have windows in this shipwrecked building!
We're meant to move to another of this guy's buildings which is even more of a tragedy than this one, it is by the sea yet, it has no windows facing the sea, it only has skylights... mmm, I'm seeing a pattern here. :p
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Well in my journey of moving around Florida through out school from 1st grade through my bachelors's degree at Florida State University I am now moving to Sarasota to start at Ringling for Computer Animation this fall. Back to life as a lowly freshman. Seems like everytime I get to the top of one mountain there is another bigger mountain ahead of me.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us." ---Gandalf
i'm in rochester, ny
but probably not for long.
hey kdiddy13, i'm not sure if you remember me but i was an undergrad in sofa at rit when you were here a couple years back. i made "sticking around" which was in the honors show the same time as "the boy who could smell the future."
i didn't know you were in new zealand now, how's that going?
Hey fuzzbomb,
I pm'd you on this board with my e-mail.
I've only been in NZ for about 3 weeks. So far I'm having a great time. It's a really beautiful country. It's just too bad I'm going to miss the summer. I really love to BBQ. Oh, well. I'll just have to wait till next year...
Kdiddy13
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Sorry Faze, didn't realize it was a window impaired building. But you have a point with a view of the sea, the architect should take advantage of that. I wonder if he's trying to keep costs down by limiting the number of windows in his buildings. That wouldn't work here in the states. An office with a window is considered a status symbol here, and everyone wants one.
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East Palo Alto! Thanks for invite Doob. I've heard baaaaaad things about E. Palo Alto. I'm going to save up and move to Pacifica. I nice skip over to San Francisco, just get a shovel and dig my way out of the fog.
Don't do nothing because you can't do everything.
East Palo Alto, CA. 1/2 hour from San Francisco....
We only had 5 shootings this month. Come on down to paradise, MonkeyGirl. ;)
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how about windows with bars? Because ours has some ;) see how precious animators are in Portugal?
By the way, how's everyone's animating conditions? big/small studio, home? windows? big computer? nice lightbox?
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Home, one window, big computer a year and a half ago, student lightbox and tablet.
Well, I guess I'm the only cuban here...
As for working conditions... we're better off working at home.
Home, older PIII/500, but I do have 21 inch monitor. One window and lots of furry company (3 dogs, of various sizes with the largest being a Great Dane).
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We used to have a 22" monitor. We don't have that kind of money, but my father used to work at a steel mill where they used computers with giant screens like that. They'd only be using DOS and old UNIX boxes, but use enormous screens because it was so hard to see. What a trip. That was like working inside the computer. Then you go over to someone else's that's like 15" and it looks like a toy in comparison. It died though, pretty quickly, after being half as old as I am.
My desktop died, I moved away from my desk (temp situation) and now I only have a laptop and whatever flat surface I can find. It's a nice laptop, but I really miss my hi-res 19" monitor. 17" laptop res, just doesn't compare. Luckily, I have a nice view of one of the bays and hills of New Zealand while I'm at home. It isn't all bad... :D
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Well, mine was bought in 1999, and I do have to fudge a little with the settings in Adobe Gamma to keep it looking alright. It developed a slight yellowish tinge last year. Someday I'd love to have a big flat screen.
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On my previous job we all had those wide screen 23" Sony Plasma deals. It was like having two monitors all on one monitor. Oh, man, was it sweet. The downside is, they cost slightly more than what I would expect to spend on a whole system and need a pretty hefty graphics card to boot. Comfort has its price...
Off topic, has anyone had much experience with video projectors? I'm pretty sure they're limited to resolutions similar to laptops (mostly just 2k images). I was wondering what it would be like to work on a desktop as big as your wall. I probably wouldn't want to work this way all the time (and setting Flash's timeline to "tiny" wouldn't be so bad). Could be a fun novelty. Kind of like graffiti. :D
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Even if I had a lot of money right now I think I'd hold off for a while CRTs still are better on the eyes and resolution when you are up close and personal right now. I know it'll get better though, I am sure by the time I have the money, I could probably put a huge one on my ceiling and work lying down.
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I am at home on a 1999 Mac G4. My desk is a plastic tablet which is good enough for now. I have a 19' crt but I am drulling over ( the image of ) the new WACOM 22' screen that you can draw on. No nice views to report.
I got myself a nice (and cheap) laptop to do some personal animation on and a tiny Volito 2 wacom, but I can't stand drawing with it so, I hand draw everything, hurrah for years and years of life drawing (I miss them, snif...)
At work we used dell workstations, expensive monsterous things that heat up the room in no time at all... aaaaaaaaah, nothing like 5 computers in one tiny room and no air con to make you feel like your melting!
By the way, the window dilemma goes on, now one of the two windows that we've got is bust... I'm melting, melting I tell yah!
P.S: Currently I'm working on a storyboard for a short animated film, what are you guys up to?
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Cleveland.
Ohio.
That's it.
"...It is a foolish mistake to even try to second-guess the public. Make things for yourself and if by chance someone agrees with you, it's coincidental."
--Julian Schnabel
Melbourne, FL. If you look at the map of the east coast of the state, it's halfway between Jacksonville and Miami, under that little overhang where Kennedy Space Center sits (10mi south I think). Can't wait to see my first up-close shuttle launch next month.
Far more exciting is where I'm headed ;)
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Hey Phacker, we'll be heading to Reno this weekend from the bay area, up hwy 80. Will we be passing anywhere near you?
Hi Phacker, feast your eyes on this! In this massive building there is a tiny room where our studio is located... if only I had a picture of our window...
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and squeeky running wheel are located in Seattle! ;)
Splatman :D
SPLAT digital
Texas, the hot dry part. :D
That's a beautiful building. I admire good design in all forms, especially nice clean architecture.
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I am a new member and live in the Philippines. I am at the other side of the world and probably am writing this while the rest of you guys are still sound asleep. Except for the insomniacs, of course.
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richmond, CA. Ten minutes north of Oakland... and nine shootings this week! Only four deaths though. Me thinks its time for a move.
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With all that target practice going on you'd think the Service wouldn't have such a volunteer problem. sarcasm
Is it built like that (the right one) or is that lens distortion?
Probably not DSB, you'll turn off towards Reno somewhere around Sacramento, which is about 1 and 1/2 hours from me. We are up at the end of the valley in Red Bluff, just 35 miles south of Redding and 35 north of Chico.
Hey gang open up your User CP up in the top menu and add a little location entry to your profile.
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C'mon, SL; use your visual training. You can figure this out, based on clues in the picture.
I'm going to straight up apologize. I've been writing words that I meant to and looking back over what I wrote seeing I've used a totally non-sensically different word in its place...misspelling things...I figured even if it wasn't a distortion that some people are doing the "mess with your head" style, so if anyone knew hard facts I was preparing for my mind to be blown. I've feared more than ten times this week that I was losing my mind or at least becoming less intelligent. :o
Using that training (actually more like common sense if I would just look at it and think a thought instead of being so out of it), I say it's intentional and without lens distortion. But you have to admit, the perspective is effect perfect for emulating the alternative.
Thanks for keeping me in check bud =)
Incidentally, it's actually incontrovertibly clear now. Hell though, even the stairwell trim angles in. Kudos to the architect.
Scattered Logical.
I read you're from near Florida's cape.
I used to live at Patrick AFB back in the day.
How far back? I saw Apollos 14 and 15 launch from our rooftop.
I also went back to see the first "return to flight" launch of the shuttle Discovery in '88.
I was much closer for the shuttle launch and all I can say is that the shuttle's got nothing on the mighty morph'n Saturn V.
Oh, yea.
I'm currently in the CST zone.
The irony is I'm going up to Cape Canaveral to see Discovery fly for the last time. Patrick is about 8 miles away from me. I go up two or three intersections from here, drive across two bridges and I'm there. What a trip.
Great place to live for that sort of thing. We've seen a couple rockets so far....one that went up on a partly cloudy night and so lit a quarter of the sky in orange....another whose jettisoning looked like a freak nuclear accident firework =) and a host of other, regular, but equally fun and loud ones.
If that's what a rocket is capable of...I can't imagine what the shuttle will do. I think it's just before 4pm that it's set to go. I was hoping for another nighttime magical display but I'll live...I still feel blessed to see it at all.
From Italy...
you know.. Palermo, mafia.. that's all : )
havent been here in ages cause of my exams and even when i was here i didnt post that much but back to the topic im Irish.
Right now I'm in New Zealand. For the past two years I was living/working outside of San Francisco.
I'm originally from Rochester, NY and hoping to head back to the Northeast (Boston/New York area) after this job. Believe it or not, I actually miss the winters. :D
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I'm currently sat on my back deck in the San Francisco sunshine. It's very different to Wales, my monochrome homeland!
Pat, if you're ever down on the Peninsula, drop me a line and I'll take you around PDI.
K
Thanks for the invite Kevan. But the last time I was down there was to see the stage show of Phantom of the Opera, back in the 90s. I enjoyed it, but boy I hate city life...I love to visit but the traffic makes my blood pressure rise. Everyone has a newer more expensive car than mine, plus they know exactly where they are going. That's never been my strong suit.
Pat
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Wow, we are definately spread out eh. We should throw an awn party and get everyone together someday, that'd be a trip. Oh, I'm in Los Angeles btw.
I also have some good news. I've been promoted to "production manager"... even though I also do most of the directing on our bigger projects. The best thing about it is I still get to animate alot! You always have to wear multiple hats when working for smaller studios... double edged sword I guess.
As long as you time it right, the Bay Area traffic is manageable. Takes me 40 mins to drive the 30 miles to work, and 35 minutes to get back, so it's not too bad really.
Congratulations on the promotion, MM. The PM job description means something totally different here, so it's good that you still get to animate!
Thanks Kevan! Do you PM? I've noticed some people refer to the same gig as general manager sometimes too.
Haha! Nope, I'm just an animator, and a lowly one at that. The PM is a person pretty high up the ranks over here.
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