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Descartes  ·  4072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's your job and the best part about it?

I do freelance animation, video production, web design/dev, digital design and I'm currently in university studying all those things (Bachelor of Digital Design). I love that the type of work is constantly changing and forces me to be creative. Doing creative things and making pretty things makes me really happy inside, especially when clients are really happy with the work or someone thinks what I made is cool. I just wish I just had more work in general. I also play percussion/drums in a band and every now and then I'll DJ the odd party.





Skipppy  ·  4071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

God I'm jealous, what kind of stuff are you animating? Plus, what's your band called?

Descartes  ·  4071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't had the chance to animate anything major, but I'm writing a lot at the moment and hoping to start a new project over the Summer. Here is an animated short that I made in a couple of weeks for uni. Not perfect and I can't really watch it any more because the main character is a rotoscoped model of my ex-girlfriend hahaha.

I play percussion in a 4-piece acoustic band called Just Rusty. They just asked me to join recently, so I've only played a few small gigs with them. I've also been playing drums and writing music with my guitarist room-mate, but that's more of an experimental/jam-band kind of deal.

Skipppy  ·  4071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The band sounds awesome, and the animation was really good. Maybe you could incorporate your own music into your animations?

Huxley  ·  4072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you my long lost brother ? I do mostly exact same stuff but with more of a focus on interactive media also studying Digital Design. The thing for me its the problem solving and the process of creating something that people will use is what really keeps me going. I also play drums with my old high school band from time to time nothing serious.

Descartes  ·  4071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha I also do some interactive media as well. And yeah, a satisfied client is a great feeling, but it's not always the easiest task, especially when the client isn't exactly sure about what they want.