Im a graduate from an industrial design course with various creative interests who works in the film industry as a film extra looking to get into area like art department, props and special effectd trying to get into various entry level creative work where there is not lots of job in any one area so often its this job wants Vectorworks that one wants Autocad and that one wants google Sketchup. I seems there is more demand for Rhino, I have a Raise 3D N2 Dual 3d Printer, often making audition videos, was good at presentign so thinking if I cannot get the Graduate, Apprentice Ship, Trainee type position maybe I should try more for making own yourtube vdeos and podcasts with some green screen. Maybe go bat to making prop Live action Role Playing possibly using the Cad software to 3d print a model I can then mould to sell copies of etc.
So there is not one set as you say workflow yet, but have been hampered by the lack of a decent creative computer with a crappy laptop (A lenovo Thinkpad Edge laptop with I3 2.2 gz processor, 500tb drive, 8g ram,no graphics card ) and very little room looking for something that genuinely enables me to learn and develop skills to the ppint where I can get a creative job to focus on a set area as need real work not more film extra and occasional brain dead promo or shop work.
Looking to add to this as can afford a DSLR camera geared to wards portrait, green screen filming and product photos, A green screen studio and podcast set up (maybe amking own rock and rebellious radio type shows and most things I see are utterly bornign radio wise.
Part of this is to try and work out what really is useful and what is not.
Solidworks was what I used the most in uni to do CAD work, very much lookign to learn Rhino as it offere more organic creativity, did courses in June on Vectorworks for set and interior design and after effects which Im looking to follow up.
So there is no one set thing at the moment whihc is why Ive run into problems like the Geforce or Quadro GPU issue as the Geforce looks fine for the 3d modeling, animation and editing side buyt not the CAD in particualr Solidworks side, I dont have the pubdjet really for QUadro 5000 and 6000 cards and have been looking to work out a system for much of the last year whe it was I9 9900x or amd tr 2950x as a choice and have been waiting for the new Threadripper and Rizen system to get something good for single threated creation and the follow up renderign and encoding.
Hvae had hard disk failure before, have about 2 and a 1/2 tb of content that needs stroign hence the 4tb raid pair.
Have been advised on 64gb, have data on dvds whihc would need the dvd writer and been trying to narrtoe down whast the best motherboard, GPU, Case and cooler should be in what had been a increasng budget that I need to limit with a lot of saving up.
So my entire savings (have no real pension, no homes / mortage and little money comming in thats not at all regular) is ust under £6000 so trying to keep the budget around £4300 as this has taken 2 yeas + to save up but needs to be done to get oj with this especially as only have 5 months of Vectorworks student licence left.
I have had a fair bit of problems with last minute audition videos and videos in general taking forever to encode, but also issues when editing, trying to run solidworks, vectorworks, Rhino etc. Looking to learn Maya and 3d Studio Max and others, like Z brush/mudbox for characters and models to 3d print.
I understand the high cores will help the renderign and encoding aling with a decent pro level graphcis card with a decet amount of ram by need a high clock speed as well.
Looking for something I can expand over time hence interest in PCIe lanes as not wantig to be restricted like the laptop (used to have an I5 system but it failed and been stuck with this parents laptop since)
So not what you used to, more in the kind of stage maybe you were at the start of a career. Lookingto try and build one not be stuck in fill in odd day casual work that in no way develops creative/engineering skills
So a fair bit currently is video and very much looking to add the likes of After effectsm nuke, 3d Studio Max, Mays, Blender etc to this
Trying to develop modeling and CAD skills to aim for entry product design, or prop like work or maybe some craft, podcast, youtube work I can do at home.
Also technically minded and most likly could build own system but have only added or removed parts like graphics cards, ram, drives, windws 7 issues before. Somewhat nervious to be trying to wing it with combining parts over £600 to £1300 each on own when could just do minor clumbsy issues and busting a few processor pins, or static screw up to put the whle thing together my self and looking for some kind of warranty and support. Would rather practice on a £300 system first rather and over 2/3 of savings.
Also when I checked single parts price lists and the cost of having a custm system made up by the likes of PC Specialist and Scan UK or Amari (In united Kingdom) there did not see to be any significant cost difference (I suppose this as as said cmpanies get bulk part discounts). So it looks like the risk of trying to put the main parts together ie processor, motherboard, case, bios to start and any over clocking (The rest should be easy) did not seem justified with a big saving.
More than likely should have no trouble with mainenance. More than likely should be able to work out how to assemble it all but woudl rather avoid a £2000 opps moment when dont have the finance to replace parts and try again.
Dont know if that helps
