Welcome to my page!!!
This page is
so bare with me
Me in 15 seconds
I'm a 36 year old game artist from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
I'm creative by nature, technical by continuous training and disciplined by necessity.
I make and manage art for games for a living, and I quite like it. Games are the most dynamic medium of our times, so that's a pretty cool industry to be a part of. It's not saving lives, but it's giving people a much-needed breather from the tedium and the weight of the world.
I like to make cool shit to display on screens.
This website is one of them.
Now click my face.
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::: I loves me some Free and Open Source Software. Here are some powerful toys I use daily and highly recommend:::
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║ Free and Open Source ╱╱ ┆ What it does and why it's great ║
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║ Blender.................... 3D swiss-army-katana. Probably the best thing to happen to 3D in the past decade. ║
║ ShareX .................... screencap tool, can snap and edit image or video. Cool annotation tools. ║
║ Handbrake ................. video encoder, excellent compression, and can turn GIFs into MP4s. ║
║ Notepad++ ................. text and code editor, lightweight and customizable. ║
║ AntiDupl .................. duplicate image finder and comparison tool by the content of img, not size/date. ║
║ 7-Zip ..................... file archiver, can open RARs, ZIPs and whatnot. Great shell integration. ║
║ Hourglass ................. really cool desktop timer. Intuitive, customizable, has alerts, it's Pomodoro 2.0. ║
║ ImageMagick ............... batch image processor, heavily used for this site. Works by command line. ║
║ Digital Clock 5 ........... desktop clock with great font support, extremely customizable. ║
║ Bulk Crap Uninstaller ..... what it sez on the tin. Can do Quiet Uninstalls and clean up reg after. ║
║ Tenacity .................. audio editor. A more modern fork of Audacity, without the privacy drama. ║
║ FFmpeg .................... video converter, command-line operation. Used for 80% of the videos on this site. ║
║ Powershell 7 .............. automation shell program, my default. Use it for batch processing image and video. ║
║ Visual Studio Code ........ my IDE of choice, wrote all of the HTML and CSS for this site in it. ║
║ JetBrainsMono ............. the font you're reading this in. I use it for VSCode and this website. ║
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║ Freeware, not Open Source ┆ ║
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║ Faststone Image Viewer..... Lightweight image viewer. If you donate to them they'll give you a license key. ║
║ Bulk Rename Utility ....... what it sez on the tin. Easy prefixing, suffixing, replacing, numbering, etc. ║
║ Everything ................ Windows file search; builds a big index and then searches are instantaneous. ║
║ PDF24 Creator ............. All the PDF tools you'll ever need. It's worth getting the offline version. ║
║ Vivaldi ................... Great CSS-customizable browser, chock full of features. Replaced Brave with it. ║
║ Obsidian .................. Cool little offline Markdown note-taking program. Easy to format and link stuff. ║
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║ $$$ Paid and well worth it ┆ Price $$$ ┆ What it does and why it's great ║
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║ SmoothScroll .............. 10€/year.... What it sez on the tin. Makes programs buttery smooth. ║
║ PureRef ................... 15€/personal Best Ref managing program. Offers a free trial. ║
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🅠 Credit where it's due
Before social media, people had their own lil' web corner.
I think that's a very respectable thing that sets individuals apart.
In no particular order, these people inspired me to make my own interweb-booth:
Autodestruct - One of the oldest artist websites that I remember, and one I still use tutorials from.
AndroidArts - a great artist and a great teacher, his tutorials are still relevant today.
Neil Blevins - some of most insightful and comprehensive tutorials and workflows out there.
PolykarbonBBS - Patrick Shettlesworth's BBS which I joined when I was 13 years old, it was a supportive community.
Mindchamber - I joined his BBS of Flash animators when I was 16 years old, helped me mature.
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