What does everyone do for a living?

[creart]

hey, you call this living??.....

anyway, I am a graphic Designer in the Netherlands, in all kinds of fields; design, dtp, 3D, video-editing and DVD, multimedia etc

and fortunately there are 72 hours in a day to keep up with everything and learn every program in and out... (doh)

cheers
Hans

[kevin_mcgrath]

I'm a PhD research scientist working in the Atlanta, GA area. I work for a Fortune 100 company, and so I spend most of my time doing lab research (when I'm not sucked into the endless stream of meetings around here).

Luckily, I get to do rendering and CG as a sidelight to my work - senior management loves fancy graphics, and C4D gives me a huge advantage over the competition.

Kevin

[flingster]

3rd line unix support....(yawn)
hence the creative hobby!!!:bounce:

[eokorie]

international student (nigerian) at a college in Glasgow. Studying for an HND in Multimedia Computing

that's about it really

[Wilson-3d]

My title is Animation/ New Media.

[Swissphil]

Human resources in a bank (what else in Switzerland :cool: ). I guess this hobby will never pay my bills, but I enjoy it :bounce:

[pupii]

I'm an Art Director for an Advertising agency in Budapest.
1 wife 2 baby no dog (in this moment)
We have nice weather;)

pupi

[Brucie Rosch]

illustrator (editorial, advertising, educational):)

[Creature]

Studying "Technologies of ModernMedia" at a german university. Currently doing a 4 months internship at an advertisment company as part of the studies.
I'm creating animated movies and still images in my spare time for various clients such as the electronics department of my university or a local baseball-club (yes there are baseball clubs in germany)

[JoelOtron]

Was: an art director/illustrator/designer/animator for a science/medical graphics studio for 9 years.

Now: Have my own business as a freelance illustrator and animator. At the moment: doing science / medical and pharmaceutical animation as well as illustration for textbooks and magazines.

Shotcomings: Spend WAAY too much time in these forums instead of doing my job--I'm just addicted to distraction. :p

[pixelbot]

motion graphics artist - I use AE to create animations for an agency that does infomercials - but wait there is more :)

I also create stock 3D images for sale through Artbeats.

cheers
timt

JoelD just went thorough a year and a half of freelancing after 10 years at a post house.

[dandavis]

I'm an illustrator/multi-media/3d guy. I'm lucky enough to do this for a living. I work with Director, 3D Studio MAX and Lightwave (nope, not C4D). My official title is "Information Design" -- dano

[Beechdbum]

High School Student :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[JoelOtron]

Originally posted by pixelbot
JoelD just went thorough a year and a half of freelancing after 10 years at a post house.

I suppose I've posted this info so many times in so many forums that you guys are starting to memorize my life story :)

And pixelbot, werent you the guy doing all those 3d scifi doors for artbeats? I remember seeing a post on that a while back.

[VestanPance]

Full-time/Married father of 3, Full-time student, Part-time Multimedia Lab Worker/Teacher, Part-time Freelance Designer, Fulltime 3D Wanabe.

[ThirdEye]

24 years old, single, a cat, architecture student at uni here in Rome. :wavey:

[theglenster]

im a brit living in germany for the last 7 years working as a technical illustrator for Audi, I illustrate those hand books you find in the glovebox´s of Audi´s! :banghead:

[miketche]

I'm a graphic designer for a Tradeshow Display company. I do all the graphics that go on the displays. Also I create 3D conceptual renderings in C4D of the the display booths for approval by the customers.

[Mentat7]

I am a buyer for a national dairy manufacturer. We make Ice Cream and Yougurt and if you shop at Wal-Mart you see our stuff. We just recently went into partnership with Disney. Pretty far cry from the 3d world but my first love is art and music thus the reason why I am inexplicably drawn to it. :)

[eokorie]

i seem to be the only african here....... woohooo..... :bounce:

glad to be part of this Cinema 4D community anyway :beer:

[AdamT]

I'm an attorney--appellate, litigation, toxic tort, insurance coverage--trying to start over in 3D--freelance modeling, rendering, animation. One wife and one dog.

http://bellsouthpwp.net/A/d/AdamTrachtenberg/cowboy.jpg

[dandavis]

That's funny Adam! I have a law degree also. Small world.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by dandavis
That's funny Adam! I have a law degree also. Small world.
Well, then res ipsa loquitor! (lawyer talk). Actually I think the world of attorneys who wish they were doing something else is pretty big!

[squidinc]

Originally posted by AdamT
I'm an attorney--appellate, litigation, toxic tort, insurance coverage--trying to start over in 3D--freelance modeling, rendering, animation. One wife and one dog.


hehe, looks like he's caught a sea monster

[Peoples]

I'm studying at Helsinki University of Technology,just finishing my 3rd year for a Master of Science in Engineering - media technology and new media contents design. I just bought a brand new kawasaki zx-6r so I guess it'll take some time of from 3D....:rolleyes:

[dandavis]

HA! Isn't that the truth, havn't practiced for a few years now. Some things do speak for themselves, don't they. -- dano

[JoelOtron]

Originally posted by AdamT
Well, then res ipsa loquitor! (lawyer talk). Actually I think the world of attorneys who wish they were doing something else is pretty big!

My wife is a psychotherapist and her clientele includes many unhappy/depressed lawyers. Maybe she should hand them a demo of C4d as part of their therapy? :)

[JoelOtron]

Oh, and by the way, I added a new direction in the "ages" thread--I posted my mugshot and thought everyone else could do the same--lets keep that dumbass thread alive forever!!!

[AdamT]

Originally posted by squidinc
hehe, looks like he's caught a sea monster
Yeah, most dogs like to play with sticks. Mine only likes to play with trees! I wish I'd caught a picture of him trotting out of the water with that thing in his mouth.

[RickBarrett]

I work for MAXON ;)

- Rick -

[AdamT]

Originally posted by JoelD
Oh, and by the way, I added a new direction in the "ages" thread--I posted my mugshot and thought everyone else could do the same--lets keep that dumbass thread alive forever!!!
NO!! Then she'd lose all her clients and we'd have too much competition!

[squidinc]

I work for MAXON

- Rick -


OOOoooOOo, showoff:p lol:D
do you guys where uniforms like in mcdonalds? y'know, little blue hats with rhinos on them, hehe :applause:

[JoelOtron]

Hey I'm not THAT ugly Adam!


But I know what you mean :p

[medula]

Nice dog Adam!

I'm an x-3d teacher of 7 years from RIT (Alias Wavefront Studio for Industrial Designers). I miss teaching - it is my first love. :surprised

I was freelaninge for 10 years with my own company at the same time I was teaching as an adjunct. I did a lot of web sites as well as game animation/art. My company site is here if you care to look (this is closed to the public :shame: - so you are all are privileged here to go behind the scenes) :) Digital Manipulation (http://www.digitalmanipulation.com/frameset.html)

I've changed my life drastically after leaving the teaching gig behind (I quit smoking, sugar and coffee :eek: in October) and I now work full-time for Ambrosia Software doing art and animation for games. I'm happy in my new home. Here's the site: Ambrosia Software (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/)

[ajmotley]

I am an Electrical Engineer for a semiconductor company out of San Jose (I live in North Carolina though). I am 38 with 1 wife, 3 kids no pets. Just started 3D about 8 months ago and lovin it. Wish I could do it full time, but I have to pay the bills.

[celezionka]

27 - medical student in my last year, going into radiology. 3D is a time-consuming-wife-annoying-expensive hobby (aren't all hobbies?), but I can't get away from it. Just too much fun.

[Global Hawk]

Graphics/3D guru for DoD contractor.

I could tell you more but then I would have to kill you!:buttrock: :eek: :airguitar :bowdown:

[Per-Anders]

i'm a freelancer... always on the lookout for new jobs in the bay area (wink wink... nudge nudge) actually just now i'm on the lookout for more permanent sorts of employment (once i've finished what i'm working on right now in a month and a bits time).

[pixelbot]

And pixelbot, weren't you the guy doing all those 3d scifi doors for artbeats? I remember seeing a post on that a while back.

good memory JoelD I finished those last year I'm in the process of creating another product for them. Door were fun however after a while you start see everything as a door.

Actually What I meant to say was that I have just gone through about a year and a half of freelance after spending almost 10 years at a post house - I reread my quote and found I had left off the "I" part so it sounded like I was telling your story - sorry

timt

[BartW]

Designer who's specializes in clients with Alzheimer (i.e. they forget very quickly about payments).

[Srek]

I'm another one of those Maxon people. My job is to supervise Betatesting (meaning: getting clubbed by the Beta testers because of the way things get implemented and getting clubbed by the programmers because of the things the testers want ;)
Before that i was a freelance computer technician for 10 years
Cheers
Srek

[pixel8or]

Full time student - BA Studio Art, concentration in computer graphics. Pick up part time jobs here and there. Last one was working as a printer for a professional photo studio. Before that... 9 years as an aircraft mechanic for the Navy, 11 years as a quality control inspector at the Boeing company.

[FredSpeaks]

Recent Architecture grad (six years seems a lot longer when you are awake 20 out of 24 hours a day) and currently employed doing architecutral visualization work (using ArchiCAD for modeling).

[ThirdEye]

Originally posted by AdamT
I'm an attorney--appellate, litigation, toxic tort, insurance coverage--trying to start over in 3D--freelance modeling, rendering, animation. One wife and one dog.

http://bellsouthpwp.net/A/d/AdamTrachtenberg/cowboy.jpg

Hey nice wife Adam!! :D j/k

[sanciok]

ehm... nothing?

I am a Freelace 2d and 3d illustrator. I'm into coloring comics for a label (is this right?) in Milan, working in a 3d project (using maya...) for a TVserie here in Italy ... and dreaming to be a musician.

[FusionDG]

Originally posted by ThirdEye_01
Hey nice wife Adam!! :D j/k
boy, that was a lobbed softball from Adam if I ever saw one. I'm surprised someone took that long to jump in w/a wife joke before you :D

3 years doing architecure on my own. just moving into doing the viz part w/C4D

[AdamT]

Originally posted by ThirdEye_01
Hey nice wife Adam!! :D j/k
Careful, she bites!

[AdamT]

http://bellsouthpwp.net/A/d/AdamTrachtenberg/JandC.jpg
The dog's a boy, btw.

[CosmicBear]

i'm a graphic-arts student (7 weeks to go till i'm done) and used to work (up until six month ago) as a freelance graphic-artist for three different advertising agencies (animation with C4D and animation:master, multimedia with director, after effects, flash and corporate design and corporate identity) and tought flash, director, freehand and 'basics of design' (don't really know how to translate 'grundlagen der gestaltung') at a local school

[geoffr]

Graphic Designer in a print promotions company (see the X-Men 2 tags in Kellogg's Frosties in the UK for latest work). Freelance Book design as well.
I used to work in Children's publishing as a Paper Engineer amd then new ideas art editor.
Currently on 2 weeks paternity leave with second child (Christ, I'm tired!).

[Peter C.]

Im a PhD student working in the a medical research field (virology) in Stockholm, Sweden. When Im not working on my thesis Im either using C4D or buying more software/plugins. It sure is an expensive hobby sometimes :insane:

It's nice to see a fellow researcher (kevin_mcgrath) who's also into 3D....does it also help you to keep sane?

Peter C.

[MJV]

I'm a freelance cameraman/editor. I shoot and edit news, documentaries, entertainment, or whatever someone wants me to shoot. As long as they pay my day rate, I'll shoot it. My wife is a reseacher/production coordinator, and we frequently work together. I live in an apartment in New York City near the United Nations. The only thing I don't like about it is we aren't allowed to have a dog. :( Fascist landlords!

I spend most of my time doing 3D and making my 3D film, which I very much enjoy. It's hard finding freelance 3D work that pays as well as shooting, though it happens once in a blue moon. I used to work for CNN in Tokyo, and then a Japanese TV station after that. The thought of ever working for another big corporation doing the 9 to 5 thing just doesn't work for me, even though I enjoyed it for a few years.

[JoshM]

21 - Full-time college student studying film...

oh, yeah I work for MAXON too =)

-Josh-

[wrosado]

I'm an illustrator working in the comic book world. I've been drawing comics for about 9 years with a 2 year break spent at a Dot Com. I'm back to comic book work these days. Most of the stuff I've done has been for DC COMICS on Detective comics and Green Arrow.

3D is a hobby for me these days. Hope to have time to do more of it. I was fortunate that the creative director at the dot com i worked at had maya and lightwave on his computer. He was once the head of a visual effect company in south america. He let me play with the programs! Billable hours on 3D training!!

:buttrock:

[ChadHofteig]

I'm 22 part time student, I do some 3d on the side.

I also tell Josh when he's wrong.:)

-Chad

[mimo8]

I´m just finishing my architecture studies here in good old vienna. for the diploma I´ll go to amsterdam this autum.

earning my peanunts with renderings for architects, illustrations, grafix and giving AE courses at the highschool.

I would be a quite productive guy, if I would´nt hang arround this forum all day (and night)

by the way ... nobody told his sex so far ... I am male ... wonder how many female 3D-fairies are flying arround in this the c4d-woods???

[MoThBall]

Draftsman!! most of the time my im designing Playgrounds. sometimes they let me make them in 3d :D and before that i was CNC programmer for a ultra high pressure water cutting company. You would be surprised how fun it is to cut a dead chicken in half with 60,000 PSI of water. :twisted:

[dmthurman]

Construction management...

[slouchcorp]

graphic designer, for a sorts post production broardcaster.

we do manily football, rugby, superbikes.

i use cinema for all my titles stings etc.

Mike.

[rikrog]

graphic designer working in glasgow, scotland
trying to learn 4D

[Mike Abbott]

17 years with my own design / CG studio here in the UK. I career swapped 17 years ago from the corporate marketing and advertising manager role (yuk). I've increasingly concentrated on the 3D stuff since the mid 90's, and it's now the vast majority of my work. Serving defence companies, large corporates, product design consultancies, the occassional TV and ad agency, etc. - basically anyone who will pay top $ ;)

Mike Abbott
http://www.vgd.co.uk

[gginther]

I work for a game company in Chicago as a 3D artist. Our current project is entering the alpha phase and will be released on PC and all 3 consoles simultaneously this Fall. I do levels on this project, but also do textures, character modeling & animation.

Gray

www.high-voltage.com

[FusionDG]

Originally posted by gginther
I work for a game company in Chicago as a 3D artist. Not to presume; do you use C4D for work at your job?

[gginther]

no, I use MAX at work because I have to, and C4D at home because I want to. . . . .

[artemesia66]

After eight years as a multimedia/web designer, I'm making a career change into fine art. Before that I did a fair amount of 3d for architecture and games, but the softwares have changed so much since the mid-nineties, that I feel like I'm starting over again. I'm so busy learning that I haven't got my own web site up yet--sort of ironic...

[fxgogo]

Broadcast Designer at Gamer.tv. Been doing TV Graphics since the Amiga days.

Originally posted by eokorie
i seem to be the only african here....... woohooo..... :bounce:

Shout tears of joy oekorie, I am an African too. Living in London.

[FusionDG]

Originally posted by gginther
I use ... C4D at home because I want to. . . . . :)

[Iggy]

Full-time husband and proud poppa of a 17 month old girl. Also mechanical engineer in Atlanta, GA, USA. Most of our work is cleaning up waste industrial gases, and we get to work with some exotics, pentaboranes, fluorines, uranium hexafluoride, etc. Check our website at Integrated Environmental Services (http://www.iescylinders.com). I do my 3d design in Solidworks and I have done a few product and site animations for sales and proposal purposes. Talked my boss into getting me C4D to improve the quality of our work, but I haven't been able to produce a vid with it yet, as I'm finishing a large fab project that just won't f***ing die! Previous animations were done with IPA, a Solidworks add-on, and Premiere. But that software was so primitive that learning C4D is like starting from scratch. Love it!!

I aspire to be an freelance industrial product animator. Nothing communicates a product (esp. automation) quite like a 3d vid of it. Anyone else do anything like that??

Iggy

[DeathCarrot]

i'm a 15 year old über geek from Finland doing my GCSEs at school (1st exams are next week :annoyed: ) in Sandhurst, England .. i help people out with pc stuff... i do 3D stuff w/ cinema 4d sometimes, not really that often anymore... :wavey:

[knight42]

32, single-ish, in the picturesque apple-picking county of Herefordshire. I do IT support and development for the Highway Maintenance section of my local authority (I don't know what the international names for it are, but its "The Council" here :) ).

I mainly do GIS development with Delphi, but I also buy stuff, fix stuff, upgrade stuff, help people, train them, help them again with the same thing as before becaus they didn't remember it, and as of last week carry, build and install the biggest HP plotter ever built in the history of the world, and hurt my back doing it. :annoyed:

I'm learning C4D and 3D at home so when I get fed up with helping those people above I can do something else.

And if you *really* want a picture, here's a less-than-serious one I made earlier - it won't be there long :) *here* (http://www.knight42.fsnet.co.uk/multiples.jpg)

J

[michaeli]

AD sales manager, Computer arts, Chinese version.
http://www.computerarts.com.cn

[PhilWesson]

not a part of the c4d family yet, but webdesigner and student in boring old stamford, CT. USA

[Shademaster]

In the process of finishing Highschool, doing a part time 3D Producer course to not get too bored. Going to study Multimedia and Art next year on the other side of the Netherlands.

Wanna be a 3d animator :bounce: working with C4d 8.

Still 19....:)

[Coen]

I'm a professional lurker :airguitar

and besides that I work as a freelancer doing motion graphics for music production companies and advertising companies.

Lately it's been a lot of webdesign though.

[marcom]

right now i'm trying to save enough money to buy MAXON. then i will work there too :p

ohh and i'm a graduated architect doing all things related to communication like installing fonts on client computers, or corporate identity, websites, presentations etc...

[designresponse]

3D visualiser / Animater / Illustrator
I have been working from home for the last seven years, (slowly going insane).
I have used C4D all that time each and every day, I love it.

[Desdinova]

Might as well post my stats here too.

I have degrees in drafting & mechanical design. I work as a freelancer and do anything I can get paided for. I also do network admin and trouble shooting. I use C4D and MAX and a little bit of Maya (just wish my modeling skills were better :shrug: maybe I should use the last 5 hours of my day modeling instead of sleeping).

Also "Hi's" to dan D and squid and the others who see me post else where

SPZ-Desdinova aka Spaz....

[grstovell]

OK.. this one's weird, I know...

I am an ordained minister serving a Presbyterian Congregation (PCUSA) in New Jersey.

We use 3D for all our video promotion from commercials, minutes for mission, video-introduction to the services and even cheesy-flying logos!:p

Our latest production is "the Gospel according to Lukas... George Lucas!"- the confirmation class put together a 20 min. video of the arrest of Jesus according to Luke... and set it in a Star Wars-like setting, with 3D environments and extra-characters- shot with a green-screen, etc, etc, etc...

-g

[PhilWesson]

thats too cool

[DeathCarrot]

heheh, Rev. that sounds cool! :thumbsup:

[LucentDreams]

Freelance instructor, teaching SKetching, Animation, C4D, Basic and Advanced premiere, Basic photoshop startin soon, and god help me, Studio max this summer (kids workshop so I don't have toknow max like the back of my hand)

Also an Imax projectionist where I watch matrix reloaded minimum once a day while banging my head against a wall.

Also trying doing some other freelancing occasionally

[fdb]

I taught 5-10 yr olds various computer skills at a primary school for 7 years before leaving to do a digital media production course for a year.
I am currently semi freelancing as a multimedia cd producer for a small community college until September, and after that....who knows.
Among all this i've been teaching myself as much about 3D as i can with an aim to someday getting work in the 3D industry :)

[d4rk]

I use to work as a freelance graphic designer for a small newspaper and I had also worked as a graphic interface designer for a HVAC company as well as several other GD jobs. I moved down to Southern California and am finding it impossible to find graphic design jobs that don't want someone to be a guru.

I work in produciton for a major newspaper supporting the graphic artists here. It's boring as hell though.

It's going to get depressing when the people start posting with like "yeah I work at ILM/Pixar/WETA"

[kevin3d]

Today I decided to kick off my mid-life crisis by quiting my job at a multimedia company to go out on my own. Will do web design, 2D & 3D animation, Flash, and teach on the side. Fearful & excited at the same time!!:eek:

[fretshredder]

I am a programmer, but I'd really like to do something creative ... hohum

[pgp_protector]

World Dictator !

Looking at changing proffessions though :)

Now working with Web Development (PHP & MySQL), Gfx Development 3D NonOrganic, And Software Development (Data Crunching Utilities / Data Gathering / Real Time Data Collection)

[Emberghost]

Originally posted by AdamT
"One wife and one dog."

HAHA, thats funny how you didnt just say a wife and a dog but you have 1 wife and a dog, just funny to me I guess.:D

BTW I am a 15 year old student here in sunny Northern California.

[brammelo]

Originally posted by eokorie
i seem to be the only african here....... woohooo..... :bounce:

glad to be part of this Cinema 4D community anyway :beer:

Nope, there's another one around. Although this one has a light(er) skin. But I guess being born and raised in Burundi earns me some kind of Africa-label :-)

Working in Belgium right now as a marketing-sales-application engineer kind of thing, but I have an architectural background. It's a small company, so I have to do a lot of different things, but it's really nice, because we are distributing C4D in the Benelux (amongst other things).

Cheers,
BaRa

[Spearhead]

I am a student with computer science just behind me. This fall the plan is either electrical engineering, computer technology or mechatronics. I decide on which after the first year.

My plan is to work freelance with graphics, beside a future as electrician/comp. engineer. If i ever get good enough and/or get the opportunity full time graphic artist would be my dream. But as i gathered its a turbulent job market.

[flyingP]

Freelance Illustrator, doing for the most part storyboards and layout illustration (i.e. presentaion work that the rest of the world never sees) for the advertsing agencies here in Germany.

[robertkist]

I just graduated from college and I'M LOOKING FOR A JOB! ;)

oh right the question was what I do for a living...be nice to mom and dad and grateful they support me with my short film project :)

[Zion]

Graphic designer in Uppsala Sweden.

[trescool]

Qualified as an architect 1998, self employed designer for the last 4 years, do a bit of everything mostly ad work, catalogs bit of web and more and more 3d illustration. :cool:

[unclebob]

I work for the city of College Station.... oops city worker a contradiction of terms.... I am employed by the city of College Station. :rolleyes: I work in utilities, electric and water.. umm those don't match either. :D

[Halogen]

Student in year 12. Will graduate in a little over a term :buttrock: :applause: :beer:

Hopefully going to do three dimensional studies and animation in uni, we will see...

[fretshredder]

Spearhead: ooohhh do electrical engineering! :) I have a computer science degree as well as a mathematics degree, and I personally wish I would have done electrical engineering as well ...

:wavey:
/gz

PS - spelling wasn't offered :rolleyes:

[sfshook]

Iggy,

I saw a presentation your President did a few months back in Salt Lake, the animations were good.

Steve Shook

[bobzilla]

Graphic design, production, preflight, printing, in a small publishing company. Use the usual apps...Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator. Do some web site stuff, design, art, images. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

After seeing Jurassic Park I said, "That's what I want to do even if it KILLS me!"

[Dedman]

sheesh, makes my job in a video store look down right pedestrian. I also make and sell Poser stuff (is poser a dirty word here?)
I've always said I'd never want to do 3d as a proffesion cause then I'd have to get a new hobby

[JIII]

Poser isnt a dirty word here. I mean I think we all would love to make some money off selling poser stuff. I know I wouldnt mind the extra spare change from renderosity.

[Dedman]

hehehe, well I'll never get rich from it but pays for upgrades and helps with software purchases. I mostly sell at 3D Commune, I'm a mod in the poser forum there.

PS we just opened a C4d gallery and forum there :)

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