OK so the picture thread established we're a pretty good looking group of people but we need a place to show we're a talented group of people too. I'm sure a lot of us have other hobbies/interests/pursuits besides video games, so post anything you've got, photographs you've taken, movies you've made, mp3s of songs you've written. Lets try to avoid any random ridiculousness i guess, if it turns into a spam thread it'll get locked I'm guessing. If there's another thread like this, my bad, i couldn't find it though. Anyway i guess since this was my idea I'll go first.
Here's a few vids i edited together from summer footage i took last year. Quality is a little sketchy but I'm pretty new to it so i guess that's my excuse.
Well, I've whored it a ton, but this is a piece of music that my cousin and I put together. I did all the vocals and drum programming, while he wailed the axe.
The vocal track in the beginning is a mixture of me doing growls with my brother doing a low-end death grunt of it all, gave it this crazy sound. The verse is actually two vocal tracks, one with a growl and the other with a death whisper style of scream overlaid to it. The chorus piece has five separate vocal tracks, all of me doing different voices to sound like a crowd of people chanting an anthem in some way. The robotic voice was actually done with a mixture of putting a fan in front of the mic while I tonally vocalized, then running the vocal track through some reverb.
The guitars were done with a 15w practice amp and my cousin's amazing skills as a guitarist. We took about five days to write the guitar part, and the entire guitar part in the track from start to finish was done in one take.
The drum programming took a few days before the guitar part was written as a basis for the song, then shifted to fit where needed for the guitar part. We used Acoustica Beatcraft, as it was free.
Finally, the lyrics were done by myself, while the intro piece's lyrics, "Within these sounding stones rings a familiar tone" was from my other cousin.
So overall, four people, two with bit parts...and all recorded on a shitty $8.00 PC microphone in my dining room. The amazingness of technology.
I was the top poster on the The Old Republic wiki page for awhile. Then someone went in and destroyed all the work I did and I lost interest in up keeping it if it meant that at any time some idiot could come in and destroy hours of work with the press if a button.
That's pretty much been my greatest accomplishment in the last five years.... (sad face)
EDIT: Oh, and I got the first review I wrote for the site featured on the front page. It was for Dark Void (PC).
@Mrskidders: Oh dear, performance problems? I feel for ya! Go go! And take pictures! Or have them taken, because taking them while doing Ubers will make them even more Uber but you might wanna start out small...
@TaliciaDragonsong: I have lost where this filth is going but ill stick a few snowboarding pics up in a while, I was trying to work but it's ground to a halt anyway now.
@TaliciaDragonsong: I only have these two on my office PC, ill dig some more out later. Sorry, they aren't very good but they are very much me. Like I said, it's all I'm good at!
@TaliciaDragonsong: Well yeh, I combine my loves with my business. I am writing winter menus for European ski chalets and hotels. Of course then I have to be on resort to put them in place and consult with people. Means I get to shoot about and ride pretty much everyday for a 3 months this winter. Happy me is happy with this.
@Mrskidders: ha, really is a dream job. I snowboard also, but don't have the balls (nor the knowledge) to do those tricks. Love my bones too much :D
@TaliciaDragonsong: That's pretty much the finished thing. You can check out the link to the reference image I used for the Anubis model in the video description on youtube. It's pretty much a Stargate style helmet.
I guess I'm a fairly decent 3D/VFX artist. I'm also a bit of a musician, although I don't do as much music as I'd like anymore. And I'm a photographer. I have this site, which I almost never update - cellart.dk Music! This is very old (I mostly do metal these days) - http://www.bandbase.dk/loopit - it's in Danish but, you know, just click the play button in the songs. You'l figure it out. More music (my recent half-assed one man metal project) - http://www.bandbase.dk/killitwithscience
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