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Old Newbie or something

arcadyarcady Posts: 340
edited December 1969 in New Users

So I've been about on some of these forums for a week now, and I've posted up two images (one in the forum, one to the gallery).

I've stated a few times that I was someone who left 3D about a decade ago, and am just getting back into it.

So I suppose I am an old newbie or new oldie or however that all works out.

I started in 3D art with Poser 4 in 1999, and I think Vue later that year or sometime in 2000 - when Vue 3 was current. I spent a lot of time on Renderosity back in the days when it was a site for freebies, galleries, and forums, and this place was known as Zygote or something. Back when they were just making art for "real customers" and hadn't yet realized that all of us "pathetic amateurs" were the real ca$h-cow... :)
- Back before people admitted this bobbie of basically digital barbie-dolls was a good thing.

Oddly, I'm pretty sure that at one point I racked up a lot of forum posts here, but they seem to have vanished somewhere. Which probably isn't a bad thing because we all change a lot over time. In the intervening years I've obtained 3 degrees all in fields I still don't work in, and come right back around to doing professionally what I was doing back in the first dot-com boom - only at a higher level.

I'm what they used to call a webmaster. Now they hire us and have no idea what we are because everybody else's titles are full careers that occupy only 10% of what we do, but deeper... I'm the guy who makes the part of your website people can see. Or makes it better. Or figures out how to get more people to not just see it, but also use it. Stuck in a weird place between programmer, artist, marketer, and what they now call 'big data' analyst but back in my day we just called 'that guy who figures it out'.

I'm a native born San Franciscan - which means I don't live in San Francisco because that city seems to have been turned over to the short term 'tech geek rental' market... Like most 'locals' I live in the surrounding Bay Area.


As someone just getting back into 3D art, I am currently working on mastering Daz Studio while I decide between Carrara, Vue, and Bryce for an 'outdoor rendering' engine. I'm holding off on upgrading my old Poser because well... $$$. And if I avoid upgrading that, that money can go into whichever outdoor / environment / plant engine I go with.

You can probably find a good amount of old art of mine under this same handle on some other sites... until I manage to track them down and clean out some of the junk that no longer fits how I see myself. As in, yeah - I have my share of 'temple vickies' uploaded too... :) Been there done that.

Outside of 3D Art I am a home coffee roaster, and have somewhere around 8 or so different brewing devices (everything from an Italian handmade espresso machine to a Turkish Ibrik, which is just a copper pot you slow boil coffee+cardamon in), one roaster, and three grinders (4 if you count a rusted antique hand-grinder waiting to be restored).

I've played my share of MMOs, in fact they're a big reason why I stopped doing 3D Art. MMOs will suck out all of your time, leaving every last interest to suffer... You can find me having been in a lot of them under the handle 'Kichwas' - which is the Portuguese word for the Quechua people and the Andes mountains that are a quarter of my ancestry.

Also keep tropical fish (African Cichlids), in a mixed tank from Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. That sounds a lot more exotic than it is - those kinds of Cichlids are now pretty common in tropical fish shops.

Hopefully as I get back into this, you'll see more and more art from me in a variety of styles.

Comments

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    Welcome back arcady!

    Things have moved on quite a bit as I'm sure you have noticed. DAZ Studio is now a much fuller package than it was, and is a real contender in the 3D rendering area.

    Old posts went with the old forum I'm afraid, so we all had to start again from scratch. They used to still be available as an archive forum, but I think it has broken down for the moment. There is plenty of help available here on the forums, and a lot of very helpful members. I look forward to seeing you on the forums.

  • arcadyarcady Posts: 340
    edited December 1969

    I'm kind of glad the old posts are gone to be honest... A person changes a lot in a decade... I'm not sure I want to know what kind of foolish things my younger self said.

    I wish the entire internet was required to 'expire' every December 31st... :P

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    I think lots of people wish that, me included :)

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    That is probably the only good reason for the old archived forum to go. There is still a fantastic amount of information posted in those pages that is not accessible at the moment, and there are several posts each week bemoaning that fact.

  • Charles WestCharles West Posts: 123
    edited December 1969

    good point chohole .... it has been a long time for me too arcady, I left after making it to PA but system crash and life interruptions kept me away. I don't know if the sportspack for emotiguy is still being offered but it was fun and if I can find the maps and morphs for pack 2 and the halloween morphs I may try again.

  • Charles WestCharles West Posts: 123
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    That is probably the only good reason for the old archived forum to go. There is still a fantastic amount of information posted in those pages that is not accessible at the moment, and there are several posts each week bemoaning that fact.

    I just ran into some of those missing bits of info....... anyone know where the texture map for emotiguy can be located? many of the items have downloadable zip files with the maps for the product but not emotiguy.

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