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darkgaze
04-13-2011, 10:32 AM
Hola people!
Iīm Lidia Martinez, from Spain, Madrid, and iīm so glad to finally end up here writing this for you all:

Iīm searching for people who need to improve their portfolio or need to join a group working together with other people, and doing something better and over all learn from each other and the process.

It doesnīt have to be a big thing, could be one very short example, after that, another one... My plan was to join 5 to 8 people (or maybe grow later on?) REALLY interested and PASSIONATE for 3d art, emotional stories and with a more cinematic style, maybe a science fiction story, adventure, fantasy, no problem with comedy... Hope you understand what i mean.

I prefer to join people from Spain, and specially Madrid, but i know itīs so hard to begin like this so i donīt really care right now.
My goal is to join people with the same interests and goals and build together something good enough to be proud of having participated on it and show it in our portfolios.

Who am i?. Do i have something good to show and convince you people?. This is the boring thing:
Iīm more of a "thinker" than a "maker". I create stories, have looooots of ideas, love storyboarding and imagine the scenes of a film, camera movements, staging...
I learned some cinematography and have contacts, but iīm open to learn a lot. I love art direction, design and animation. And i have experience in directing a group and organization of teams. I have experience with Maya and iīm finishing my Computer Science Engineer career, specializing in Graphics Programming and 3D. But my real passion is to try to build stories and introduce the viewers to a new story and world and be surrounded by it and its atmosphere.

Iīll give you some examples of what i like and hope you all like too: Jurassic Park(for itīs inmersion and mistery) or Avatar (for itīs colorful and fantastic imaginative world, not for itīs script), Pixar movies (for its emotional characters and stories), mystery and postapocaliptic worlds, for example 9 (for itīs atmosphere), Dune,Blade Runner,Ghost in the Shell, Star Wars first movies... and etcetera. And love World of Warcraft cinematics (for itīs adventure type of stories and music), Blur Studio films, The Cathedral by Tomasz Bagiński (for example, for itīs scenary)...

I search for people with the same concerns. Not the same likes and dislikes, of course, but i hope you understand my idea.

So the important information is here for the candidates :) :
- People from Madrid, priority, but not necessary. Just to work together, which is easier. (ŋAlguien por ahi?)
- Interested , hard workers, specially for THIS SUMMER, when iīll be working hard on this, alone if no other remedy. And not to be expanded more than two years, so the flame stays.
- PASSION and interest to be very RESPONSIBLE and HELP
- Love inmersion or like it
- Do your best to show a better portfolio and your best pieces
- Modellers welcome, animators and riggers welcome, scenary creators welcome, matte painters very welcome, and people with general experience in the process also welcome, and script writers and creators very very welcome too, musicians, sound designers... people with knowledge in all of this aspects.

As you see, everybody is welcome. :D but iīll try to do a little quality selection process, not very intensitive, but very important though, to ensure the general quality of it all. I search for people with real skills or general skills.


Sooo....
Sounds like an explosion, but iīve been waiting for this for YEARS, never had time to do it and now that i feel confident...itīs the time to do something better. Would you like to join me in this adventure?.... Would you grow with me?
Any other place where i could advertise this?


Thanks for all, people. This forum is great. I hope i get answers soon!... my blood boils. :-)

softdistortion
04-14-2011, 07:57 PM
Hey darkgaze,
Read all your info, and it sounds you definitely have a fire burning to get going on a project.

Your idea of working onsite in your area is smart if you can find people there to do it.

For online, it's more difficult, but not impossible also a combo of both onsite and online team is probably even the best way to go. If youhave interest, check the interviews with success stories at www.collabnews.com.

If you find you would like some suggestions/tips on how you might refine your recruit to get more response going with forming an online team, I'd be happy to give some help via PM or email.

Other than that, wish you success. :thumbsup:

darkgaze
04-14-2011, 09:44 PM
Hey there!

I checked out that website before , and know about the projects here, and read everything.

Your project concerning VFX is SO good. Hope i had more knowledge about special effects to help you out!. And really looking forward to see what happens next.

Yes. I definetly need some help here. I was surprised about the small amount of threads here in collaboration and teams forum. Yes, we could talk via PM if you want. And thanks a lot! really. Iīm quite lost in this world, i want to enter, and before i follow another path i want to try this before!. And itīs time!.

Thanks !

softdistortion
04-15-2011, 06:50 PM
Thx, always nice to hear from someone who appreciates the efforts. :)

The low activity probably has a few reasons, but on a whole, lately it's getting a bit better.

The key I think is to share our work in progress and lift the curtain so newcomers can get a feel for what is involved and learn some tips along the way.

Rats Crowd team members have really done a fantastic job with this...big respect to Luiz for sharing some great tips (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=6941005&postcount=26) :buttrock:

Hopefully others who are already here will loosen up and take time to do the same...and if not, maybe teams that start up in the future will keep doing the same.

The other part is to try and help out new people a bit more than maybe has happened in recent past.

I'll pm you re a time to get together and see if I can help you with your start up a bit. :thumbsup:

darkgaze
04-16-2011, 01:50 PM
Ah. Thanks a lot. The ideal is to join a friend and start something. Then show it to the world and ask for collaborations. The problem here is i donīt have any contacts here.
If i donīt get help here, iīll try that other path.

softdistortion
04-16-2011, 04:40 PM
The stuff i mentioned was mostly meant in reply to your being surprised at the low amount of threads in here for collabing. Wasn't expecting you to do it right off the bat. It's more up to us people who are already active here to help boost interest and activity with new projects.

Sent a PM to your mail here at the forums with some comments and email- contact details to keep our PM boxes from overload. :)

Will await your reply.

darkgaze
05-13-2011, 08:35 AM
We are now three people, a modeller, a producer (he doesnīt produce , but he's a teacher instead :D) and me.

And still looking for people to start this June-July, or this summer.

Will you join us? show me what you can do!

realroubla
05-14-2011, 12:07 AM
hi
realy realy if i have the Qualifications i will be in your team but im just i junior one Without project or expereience just learning .
you can find peaple ho have the same passion of you, but like i read , searching people in the same country:hmm: in the same city :surprised oh it very complicated i think.
dont give up you can make't:)

AbsorbentGhost
05-18-2011, 03:18 AM
This sounds extremely well plotted i wound like to participate.


We are now three people, a modeller, a producer (he doesnīt produce , but he's a teacher instead :D) and me.

And still looking for people to start this June-July, or this summer.

Will you join us? show me what you can do!

darkgaze
05-18-2011, 08:46 AM
Thanks. If you want to join, just send me some information through a private message.


We are 4 right now. Maybe five. But iīm keeping people in a queue, because we are working on the script / the story / some concepts to show you and convince somebody to join.

But please, send information. Most important, what you have over the net, to check it out.

Thanks :)

AbsorbentGhost
05-18-2011, 06:31 PM
im just starting to build my reel,i wish the artist on this site could collaborate more with each other.

Pertox
06-13-2011, 02:11 PM
Hello everyone!
Darkgaze, I'm from Spain and I'm willing to join you if you agree! I'm sending you a PM.
Regards.

Pertox
06-13-2011, 03:48 PM
Hi everyone!
Darkgaze, I love your ideas! I'm from Spain and I'd like to join your team. I'm sending you a PM.
Regards!

darkgaze
06-28-2011, 04:05 PM
Hey people, iīm here again, now totally free to work here.

News news!!!

We are still gathering info about the people who wanted to join. Anyways, we are open, always open, so people can still join us.

We are now doing some brainstorm and creating some concepts.

As soon as we got something more specific i'll post it here. I know you could get more interested if you see something, so i'll come back soon.

hasta pronto! :thumbsup: