Welcome to movecraft, my little slice of motion graphics heaven on the internet.
Website Relaunch
New Stuff
Now that I’m staff at CobraCreative. Wait- let me just post the notice.
Notice this announcement is a bit dated already... In the style of the old site. Ah well. Where was I?
Now that I’m staff at Cobra, I realized my site didn’t exactly have to be a professional advertisement for me anymore. This is kind of nice. I can Blog, post personal links if I feel it, and generally relax with movecraft.com. I also have switched over entirely to Rapidweaver for my development. This means, I will never have to hand code anymore. All my knowledge was painfully outdated anyway, and this way I hopefully will be encouraged to frequently update with such an easy to use platform. Anyone can build a website with this here new-fangled software.
Other new stuff... You’ll notice I am still building the Boards section out slowly. I haven’t decided if it should just be motion boards or other graphic design. Also, dang, I don’t have much of either. I have been focusing for so long on learning C4D and AE that I kept getting paid to be a technical guy instead of an artist. This is rough because I don’t know if I will ever compete with the truly technical guys. I think that personally, I would love to focus once again on what brought me here in the first place – you know. Art. Pretty pictures. Maybe the Boards section will have photography too. Maybe I just renamed that section right here in this blog post.
I also have a Source Files section. I keep posting files to message boards and the like. It occurred to me that they might be useful actually posted somewhere. I also have been instructing at the Academy of Art University, and this semester have been putting together a Special Topics: Motion Graphics class for compositors. I keep referencing files, and, bandwidth permitting, could post some source file from that course. It’s turning into a monster- I have some dedicated and awesome students. I might require all of us to use Vimeo. I have set up a profile there. Working at an interactive firm is already making me realize how behind the curve I am in general web knowledge.
Finally, I am riding in AIDS Life Cycle this year. I have set up a page for everyone to donate, buy beer, and check out the cause.
Colin
No Post-ville
So I haven't exactly kept up the blog since I got back from India. Bloggin' is hard work, I can't believe all of these people that do it for free- you basically have to be incredibly inward navel gazing or self indulgent or have a lot of time on your hands, or some sort of combo of all of these to keep it up. I don't even know if that last run on sentence needs the usual self editing I do on this thing - that's the other thing, I'm probably way too neurotic to ever make casual blog posts without over analyzing every word.
Anyway, I have a ton of new content for the site (6 major projects since India!) and will probably be revamping for 2008 soon enough. I have been instructing Motion Graphics at the Academy of Art University and look forward to this blog to being a resource for my students- I might switch back to discussing graphics and posting After Effects files and links to various projects.
Cheers!
Colin
Movecraft
Mumbai Apartment.
I moved into my apartment here. the address is
Building B1 Apartment #202, Serenity Towers complex, Andheri (West), Oshiwara, Mumbai, India, 400 053
My Cell in Mumbai is:
Country Code--->(011) 91 981 930 4870
but to have anything sent please send to the Studio,
Colin Sebestyen c/o Empire House, 1st floor, 10, Shah Indl. Estate, Veera Desai Road, Andheri (W), Mumbai, India 400 053
Cheers
C
Hooray for Bollywood
So this blog is going to stay industry oriented and still serve as a feed for motion graphics and effects compositing, however, it may take a few swings into the personal arena as I travel to Mumbai to work on a feature. Don't be surprised if you see some personal photos and notes on here along with some posts of me fumbling my way through a full 35 mm project with Digital Intermediate! I am very excited to work on this project as VFX supervisor and as lead Compositor/Designer.
Stay tuned from India!