Jobs: Leonid fours, master post-production

Today, on the workplace and the tools we said Leonid fours, working in the field of videoprodakshena - namely, creating special effects and visual things that do not exist in the real world. This is the story of the multi-core workstations and regulations, and for which the system works the studio to create a "candy for the eyes."

What do you do in your work?

The scope of my work - visual effects, and Motion Design. More specifically - Producing such projects. The simplest examples are robots or monsters in cinema, design or screen on TV, flying, or pouring the products advertised. In short, we create something that does not exist in nature and it is impossible to remove the camera; sometimes cheaper to make any frame or scene our means, than to shoot live; and we can not do without, if that should be shown in the frame can be dangerous when shooting. In the end, we provide the opportunity to directors, producers, art directors, etc. just tell the story and convey precisely the feelings that they want. Often our sphere is also called post-production, computer graphics and video design.

We work mainly for film, television, video, advertising, music videos. At the same time, advances in technology introduces new platform. For example, more and more requests come on rollers for placement only on the Internet, to demonstrate to the stereo 3D monitors. It happens that the integrated multimedia projects also need our expertise.

I spread some personal projects and his thoughts on blog. By the way, my blog is organized on the platform WordPress - at the time of establishment, it gave me the most appropriate set of options in design and structure. I write mainly to understand himself in any issue.

My overall experience is about 6-7 years. At first it was work as a freelancer for small regional projects. Then in 2007 I moved to Kiev and organized company with a friend. We are at the same time deepen their professional knowledge and provide multimedia services Productions. Over time, we began to develop, each in a different direction - I continued on to the visual effects, my friends moved in filmmeykinge, flash animation and programming, architectural visualization. The last two years I have worked as an independent producer, visual effects, and three months ago, I joined the company BRAINDRAINTRAIN.

How does your workplace?

Today I do not have a home workplace, but this soon changed, when there will be a laptop or a stationary car - my home computer moved into the office, leaving only the speakers. The house has Wi-Fi, which we use when my girlfriend comes home from work laptop or surf the 'Net with your iPhone.

In our business, the more powerful the computer on which you work - the better. My configuration is a little outdated, but still it is a machine based on the Core i7 930, 12 GB RAM and a powerful enough video card. I 4TB locations gathered from the four hard drives, two of which are in the raid. I have a regular 19 "monitor and old graphic tablet Wacom Graphire. Genius keyboard with "flat keys" and some multimedia features. He remembered that once a long time choosing his arm and stopped for A4Tech X7 - I do not like asymmetric mouse with a bunch buttons are also not very comfortable to work with my wireless mice and keyboards - sometimes "podglyuchivaet" and "Sticky."

I am still less do compositing is now (this process digital video assemblies, 3D graphics, images and other data sets in the final video). Compositing was my specialization parallel management, finance and customer service. my configuration is enough for me right now. But my neighbors are standing around the office workstations based on Intel Xeon dual-processor machines, which add up to 24 cores. Larger monitors (from colleagues are Dell 27 ") is also very important when working with film or color. Most of the cars have the PC, but there are a few Mac.

In the office, there are Wi-Fi for laptops and mobile devices, but mostly is an Internet broadband network. All wires and extension cords we attached to the bottom of the table top, so nothing lying under the feet of chairs and on the floor. As for the server, it should have a separate room - very noisy.

As for the phone, but now I have a HTC Touch smartphone on Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, but in the near future I plan to switch to the iPhone, - painfully lacking convenient, stability and quality to my current devayse age four of the year. Also in the plans again to get a powerful laptop - more problems is urgent and can not wait until I show up at the office.

What software use?

On my computer worth Windows 7 Ultimate. Still, Windows XP is already ten years old, and seven more modern and versatile. Why I do not work on a Mac? - probably because of habit, because of my calculations, the cost of similar configurations on Mac and PC varies not so much. It should say that I do not work in some specialized program editing or color correction, which are available only to the Mac.

From professional software I work in The Foundry Nuke and After Effects from Adobe CS5.

Often use an office suite from Microsoft, but only Word, Excel, PowerPoint. recently I returned to post on Thunderbird and I am very pleased with his performance. The main browser - Firefox. Calendar - Google Calendar - I really like his relationship with the Contacts Google, where I transfer my contacts, and all other Google services. I use Skype and Gtalk messengers from. Last I wound up in the universal client Digsby. This also wound up and my twitter. And mail and messenger work all the time - I'd better ask to move the conversation than to be constantly out of reach. sometimes I use Dropbox file synchronization, but there was one international project, where we have built a completely file-sharing on dropbokse by purchasing premium account.

Recently I moved to a system of organization of Getting Things Done and lead her completely in Evernote. Project management system using Cerebro - it is very well tuned for the specifics of working with multimedia projects and has a much more specific user-friendly features as compared with the same Basecamp. Cash flow in the lead RylstimAnd developing a strategy Mind Manager - for the initial stages it enough.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Paper in the office and at home is hardly ever used. Books I read mostly from his Kindle 2, the same read and scripts, and other long articles or documents. Kindle reader find the best in every respect. For notes, appointments, sketches and similar tasks, I use unruled Moleskine - not like when on sheets of notebook of bordered or limited space. If the hand does not have Evernote on my GTD - all write in Moleskine.

Is there a dream configuration?

Probably I will always want something more powerful, pomobilnee, pouniversalnee. But in the end, perhaps, it will always be a strong stationary workstation, laptop - still tablet computer It is not very suitable, for example, for the full file management, not to mention the professional tasks, and modern smartphone.