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Macs and the way of life

My name is buffsldr and I have a Mac addiction. *sits down*

I am a mechanical engineer who works with geeky engineers all day ( and yes I am one of them). For me, my mac provides me with a creative outlet. I suck at it, but I edit home movies, make web sites, and use the iApps for my pleasure.

One of the main reasons I want to get a laptop is to take my junk with me so I can tell peeps about macs.
 
Originally posted by buffsldr

One of the main reasons I want to get a laptop is to take my junk with me so I can tell peeps about macs.
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Ah, he wants to be a Mac Missionary. A noble cause my son. A good discussion for the mac convert sectoin. I'll be posting one there shortly.
 
Re: jef

Originally posted by jefhatfield


btw...and hey jello, be proud to tell people you go to NYU...even us californians admit that you guys have a better film school than even USC or UCLA...and yes, i am a californian but appreciate new yorkers so much that i married one

some film school experts say that AFI is also as good as NYU but it all comes down to what you do with the knowledge you gain...i hope to one day see one of your movies
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yeah, i'm proud... funny thing is, i started out in comp sci originally planning to use it for graphics/effects purposes. after one java class (which was a pain cause the software that came with our book wasn't up to date for mac... ahh!) and a lot of laziness, i realized i wasn't cut out for programming. so i made a run at the film school. they didn't let me know til like june between fresh and soph year and had me hanging because my grades from first semester weren't good, but i picked it up greatly the second... but i got in! and that's really all that mattered. the video i made for my application was quite dumb, but fun(ny)...

as far as seeing my movies... hmm. well, i'm not the greatest film student. i'm only in my first film film class now, just before my senior year, and it will be my last. i'm doing animation/video mainly. ask me about directors, i don't know anything. kinda sad. but my animations are decent. and on that note, i must get back to drawing... (can't learn animation without drawing, even when it's for comp animation... ahh)

ps. there is another person (at least 1) on here that goes to nyu and he/she is actually also into animation.. i have to use my detective skills to figure out who they are. ha
 
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oh yes, i actually am working on getting the things i've done so far onto the web. and at the end of my semester i think the school will transfer my film films to video for me, so i'll get them sometime in the summer. if you actually want to see em, i could let you know when they're up. and where of course.
 
ha.
thanks.

i think everyone in film is a wannabe. til they hit it big. and even then, not sure anyone is flawless after that...

one thing i've learned, film school might be 'easy' in that there aren't tests or such, but it's tough to be creative on command. try taking a comedy writing class.... it's great when you need to write, and you can be funny. but when you HAVE to be funny... that's a tough demand to fulfill... as i'm learning all too well.
 
Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
ha.
thanks.

i think everyone in film is a wannabe. til they hit it big. and even then, not sure anyone is flawless after that...

one thing i've learned, film school might be 'easy' in that there aren't tests or such, but it's tough to be creative on command. try taking a comedy writing class.... it's great when you need to write, and you can be funny. but when you HAVE to be funny... that's a tough demand to fulfill... as i'm learning all too well.
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Say something funny, jello. C'mon.....now..... say it......be funny.


Yeah...i see your point. As an engineer i chuckled at art guys in school. They were always tan and throwing frisbees on campus, but it all comes out in the wash. Simple economics dictates who gets paid. School might be easy for you, but you are right, being good is tough. Now go get 'em
 
tan?

Originally posted by buffsldr


Say something funny, jello. C'mon.....now..... say it......be funny.

Yeah...i see your point. As an engineer i chuckled at art guys in school. They were always tan and throwing frisbees on campus, but it all comes out in the wash. Simple economics dictates who gets paid. School might be easy for you, but you are right, being good is tough. Now go get 'em
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ha! tan? ahh... i guess artists here are different then they were where you were... here we like the pale skinned folk with piercings and black framed glasses and such... not to mention being pretentious and stuck up..

hmm... funny? now? well... i'm too busy drawing. but if you check out zoolander or bottle rocket or a funny movie... you could laugh at that. now THOSE are some funny movies. i seem to write my scripts with the lead always turning out like owen wilson... that's how it goes.
 
Re: Re: jef

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule


ps. there is another person (at least 1) on here that goes to nyu and he/she is actually also into animation.. i have to use my detective skills to figure out who they are. ha
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Well that would by ME. So you've figured out who I am, eh? Though it wouldnt be that hard for you to figure out for me I think I might have an idea who you are as well.

I've used my surperior logic and general "guessing" based on appearances. I have on question: Do you spend a lot of time on the 8th floor of Tisch or do most of your work at home?

NOW ON TO THE THREAD: I was into films and animation when I was a kid and THAT is how I got into macs. I'm the opposite of Jello, Ah. (get it, ah is the opposite of ha, which he always says).

I got my mac specifically for video and animation purposes. Then I got addicted. Now I wake up and have to check apple rumor pages...oh well, its better then fighting with windows.
 
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Originally posted by teabgs
I got my mac specifically for video and animation purposes. Then I got addicted. Now I wake up and have to check apple rumor pages...oh well, its better then fighting with windows.
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So, as a fellow aspiring animator, I'm curious to know what software you're using. You have any samples online?
 
Well, I am just starting out with the computer animation myself. Jello's probably got some better stuff then me.

At our school we learn Maya as far as computers are concerned. But I've taken some traditional aniamtion classes as well. I'll be taking classes for drawing and design, Emotion, stop-motion, storyboarding, life drawing, in addition to the computer. I had to get lots of requirements and other film classes out of the way, but next year is a lot more animation for me.

I'll post a pic of my room I did in Maya...Keep in mind it's the 2nd thing I EVER made with Maya, so don't be too harsh. I need to fix it up a bit more.

I need to convert it to a valid file...will do in a few minutes...
 
Originally posted by teabgs
At our school we learn Maya as far as computers are concerned. But I've taken some traditional aniamtion classes as well. I'll be taking classes for drawing and design, Emotion, stop-motion, storyboarding, life drawing, in addition to the computer. I had to get lots of requirements and other film classes out of the way, but next year is a lot more animation for me.
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Are you doing Maya on a PC or Mac. The Mac versions aren't as robust as the PC (expantion and plugins). I've been doing Lightwave, which also suffers from the same problem some times, but I love it.

I downloaded the free version of Maya and played with it a little, but I've invested so much time in getting up to speed with Lightwave, that I'll only ever play around with Maya.

Currently I'm working on getting my character animation skills honed. Looking forward to seeing some of your stuff.
 
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yeah, using maya here.

there's also a combo of the traditional with the computerized, as far as using after effects/animo to color in drawings and then time them and such...

i am not a great drawer, so its' a lot of stick figures and such for me on that end. and i did a character last semester on maya, and it came out pretty bad. the rig was just colliding on itself a lot and not properly weighted in the common trouble spots.

i did do an animation that was only turbulence based (some curtains blowing in the breeze) and camera movement, but i think it came out alright for my first maya animation. it's more pleasing to the eye than the character, but less technically advanced. i will probably be putting that one up soon. and maybe the character as well, but it really really is heinous and primitive...

i'm still investigating who this "teabgs" character is...

oh yeah, we use maya on sgi mainly, but also a few nt's running it (much faster, but more complicated to use b/c of networking... our files are on the sgis, whereas we have to copy everything to the pc if we want to use it)

i got the learner's version of maya for mac but haven't messed with it too much. next year my whole year will be devoted to making an animtion (probably within a small group) for 2 classes that are both 2 semesters... one is totally 3D based and the other is just animation but obviously you can do 3D for the project. so they allow you to combine it all into one massive thing (massive by animation standards is probably a few mins. ha) will see.
 
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Originally posted by jelloshotsrule

so they allow you to combine it all into one massive thing (massive by animation standards is probably a few mins. ha) will see.
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Ha, back in my school days (92) when I was playing around with 3D animation, if you managed to get even 1/2 minutes worth of viewing is was amazing. All we studied at first was animation techniques, traditional and their incorporation with computer animation. This was a time when Pixar had been getting Oscars for their 3D cartoons - Red's Dream, Tin Toy, and Nic Nac. Very inspirational, but way beyond anything we could do on our Amigas. We did have some access to SGIs at the time, but it was a little limited and most of the stuff you did on them required more coding than interfacing with a modeler or animation tool. Its come a long way since then.
 
here's a pic of my room....Please keep in mind I had only modeled one other picture before this one and It lost some quality being turned into a JPG.

Now as for the identity of JELLO....You gotta throw me a bone. All I will ask is if you're on the animation floor all the time working, or if you choose to do your work at home instead.


ANOTHER NOTE: We're getting new computers for 3D this summer. The SGI's will be a render farm and we'll either be getting more NT's or possibly macs (if they get caught up with the mac version).
 

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dukestreet: yeah, for our intermediate class it's all about setting up the character, and the animation was pretty short.. mine was maybe 10 seconds.

teabgs: nice picture. i think one of the top things people forget about in terms of power to make an image amazing, is lighting. and the shadows and stuff in your picture are pretty cool. and i find the lighting is the coolest thing i like about my couple of projects... i'll post my same project in a bit.

about the bone... nope, i don't spend much time there. mostly at home except when i'm taking a 3D class or shooting on the lunchbox... i think i should get another bone... most of the TAs are guys, but i don't want to assume.. are you a guy?


cool note about my intermediate class last semester: for 2 weeks my teacher was away getting married, so the lead rigger from Ice Age came and taught us about rigging a character... it was cool. a pretty darn young guy, brilliant... not a teacher by trade, so he went a bit fast. but it was definitely cool to see his name at the end of the movie and say he taught me for a bit... i guess to me it's more important than seeing spike lee being in the elevator with me at school... but hey, that's just me.
 
Originally posted by afonso
I also met my boyfriend through my Mac, on IRC... actually, we hated each other before actually meeting in person... it's been 3 years now and we're moving in together this summer ;)
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Hey, there's lots of great guys, and gals, out there. Maybe you should explore a little more...

Then again, who am I to talk... I'm married.

LOL

(btw, I'm only kidding - unless there's a video involved, in which case, can I have a copy?)

((Again, I'm just kidding))
 
Ok, this is going to seem bad, but it's really film related.

Hey, teabgs, is your name at all related to the term teabags from a movie (I swear I can't think of the name - british movie with a little kid)

I think the term related to a male stripper "tea bagging" a patron, and being told that that was not allowed?

Ever since I saw your name I thought of that, and I can't remember the name of the movie, and if you can help a poor bloke out, I'd a**preciate it.
 
Well, I am a guy Jello, so sorry you cant narrow me out that easily...haha, now you know Im not 2 out of 10(I think thats how many Ta's we have). Anyway, there's your bone.

Thanks for the nice comments..there is a HUGE flaw in the pic, and Im the only one who has noticed that I am aware of. Part of the bed where the wood brace is attatched to the post, well, theres a metal plate, but its actually floating in mid air out of place...supposed to have screws attatching it to the bed...oh well.

And about Spike lee..I have a friend who tripped him in the building by accident last year. He was walking by and my friend had his feet out and Spike just tripped right over him. :)

I'll see if I can figure out who Jello is without any more help...we'll see. Not too easy a task out of say 50ish students around that level? Maybe less...what do you think my odds are Jello? You have 1/8...
 
here's mine. it's not as finished/polished. i spent a lot of time trying to get the lighting to work (as sunlight). and the outside just got a blue color for simplicity, better than black for sure...
 

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what a laugh :)

actually i think most ppl i met on irc were a bunch of losers, not to mention complete unfaithful in relationships...

oh well...

that's why i haven't used chat services for ages now...

isn't real life great? :p

Later,
Afonso
 
Originally posted by mcrain
Ok, this is going to seem bad, but it's really film related.

Hey, teabgs, is your name at all related to the term teabags from a movie (I swear I can't think of the name - british movie with a little kid)

I think the term related to a male stripper "tea bagging" a patron, and being told that that was not allowed?

Ever since I saw your name I thought of that, and I can't remember the name of the movie, and if you can help a poor bloke out, I'd a**preciate it.
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:D HAHAHAHA!! I get asked if my name is from "tea bagging" ALL THE TIME. Well, its not. And also, its not a reference to a movie. It's a reference to something I did when I was at summercamp. It was the nickname given to me from my friends, I used it from then on for games and internet.
 
Originally posted by teabgs
Well, I am a guy Jello, so sorry you cant narrow me out that easily...haha, now you know Im not 2 out of 10(I think thats how many Ta's we have). Anyway, there's your bone.

Thanks for the nice comments..there is a HUGE flaw in the pic, and Im the only one who has noticed that I am aware of. Part of the bed where the wood brace is attatched to the post, well, theres a metal plate, but its actually floating in mid air out of place...supposed to have screws attatching it to the bed...oh well.

And about Spike lee..I have a friend who tripped him in the building by accident last year. He was walking by and my friend had his feet out and Spike just tripped right over him. :)

I'll see if I can figure out who Jello is without any more help...we'll see. Not too easy a task out of say 50ish students around that level? Maybe less...what do you think my odds are Jello? You have 1/8...
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i didn't notice the floating plate. i'm guessing it's the area of darkness there that's keeping it hidden...

i got in the elevator last year with spike and i just thought "oh hey that's him. he's short." then some other film artsy kid gets in "whooooaaa!" just made an arse of himself.

i figure you'll have a bit harder time. but then again, i don't go in there often so i don't know all the ta's... hmm. not jesse. not ian (not sure he's even still a TA). not... one other guy who's name i forget (he's been there more than this year i'm sure.) i think jason(?) has been there a while. well that's only about 4. but still i have reduced it further. time to hang out by the window and figure it out.. ha. i'd rather sleep... but yeah, you could figure it out. probably my other posts will also help give me away. and if you have a good eye you could pick me out via the ipod... (that's a big bone i think)
 
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Thats nice. I really like the soap and such. Ah, the little subtleties that make it realistic. I'm guessing thats the part you got the most praise for in class...You know, if you'd made the window panes kinda dirty and maybe had a bit of a reflection it would give it a whole new life.
 
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