Which software do you use at the very beginning?
Let me start first.
The first software would be TurboCAD. which is my 15 years old birthday present from my sister. It is not really the hook tho, but that simple program really taught me what is 3D and how does it work. The real hook is a guy who use to be my friend and he is so proud of hiimself knowing (limited) of 3D studio Max. I am kind of jealous about him(because he is very inch). But luckly i got a copy of max 2.0 from him "along" with a tutorial book. Then i start reading the book and finish 1 or 2 tutorial. However, i found out that "it is damn hard". After that i put it away and forget about it.
Then when i get to 16-17 (1996-1997 oh, that's when i met my girl friend: dec 12, 96) I met another group of friends in my fashion design class at high school. 1 of them knows Max too. We share experence and i found out that he is a good guy. He knows alot about Max and 3D. So we get along well and start to pick up max again together.
During the rest of my highschool year, we concentrade on graphic design and 3D. Because we knew that in order to get into college 3D programs we must have to have a 4 year art related deploma. And graphic design seem the most useful deploma.
Unluckly we both at the end didn't get into any college of graphic design. I am kind of a lazy guy. I never opend max for nothign just to dig around with function. But my friend will. So we start to have a big gap between the skills.
At the summer of 2000 i accepted by seneca college's 3D softimage program. Since starting from that year, seneca will accept limited of 4 highschool student. Woow i feel cool right, i am one of the 4. (who knows this was the entrence of nightmare)
The reason I choose softimage is because.... i don't know if you guys know about it. But around 1997-1998. HK comic master Andy Seto had a comic called "Super God Z" or something like that was been made to a 3D movie. And the software they were using is Softimage 3D. So i feel softimage is a professional 3D package, and also, i guess it is a time for me to split with my friend. I don't want myself to compare with him anymore. I am this kind of guy. Always compare, and always compare myself to someone who is better than me.
Starting at Aug 2000 to Dec 2000 i mastered Softimage 3D. Knowing it in and out. Almost everyday after class, i spend my spare time on reading the 2 big reference manual of Soft.(funny is that i forgot how to use Soft now after i use XSI)
After the course, looking for jobs. Aeeeeg, didn't get any. So I went back to seneca in feb 2k1 to start working on my next demo. I finish it in april 2k1. Something, no luck. I went back to seneca again for a week trainning on XSI in June 2k1. And go back home do nothing. Well, not really nothing. I got 1 or 2 freelance as a graphic designer. But sigh, first time being a freelancer. I don't know how to deal with clients.
1 time i have a chance to go back to seneca and i talk to my situation with my old instructor. He told me that there are couple of my classmate were here and they have a big project goign on. So i talk to them and join them starting Jan 2k2.
Well, that's almost it. while working on the group project, i spend time on my own project. I have to make something for my own right. So, i had another demo going.
April 2k2, i finally figure out what is my talent and what i want to do. which is tobe a texture artist. (oh May 2k2 which was the day i broke up with my gf). After 1 year of constructions. april 2k3. I finished my demo. The sad thing is... I don't like my it.
我在3D中只是一個無名小卒，當初是小時13歲左右見到一個"3D Fx"的東西，之後只是在玩玩下，到了16歲才因為明白到CG對自己的個人Design創作方面有幫助，所以立心學。我當時選了LightWave，之後都只是自己買書自學一下，沒有正式的讀過 
最近又因為想做Movtion Graphic的關系，又開始自學一下Combuction。
