I appreciate your interest.
I've taught myself how to use a myriad of software since 1982 on at least six major computer platforms -- heirin you can find some of the more relavent information about them and what they're used for.
Software Knowledge
. . . P P C . M a c i nt o s h . . .
Motion Graphics
Adobe After Effects (production bundle) 3.1 / 4.0 / 4.11 / 5.0 / 5.51 / 6.0
-for chromakeying animated footage, animated roto-work, color correction, fx, doping, etc.
USAnimation 6
-for coloring traditional animation
combustion* 2.0
-for chromakeying live footage, tracking, color correction, wire-removal, etc.
Flash 4.0a / 5 / MX
-for page layout, design, inter-activity and animation
Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 / 5.0.4
-for editing.
Cleaner5
-for compressing movie clips for CD and the web.
Still Graphics
Photoshop 1.07 / 2.51 / 3.05 / 4.0 / 5.02 / 5.5 / 6.01 / CS / CS2
-for still/photo-retouching & image manipulation, scanning & batch processing of animated frames, color correction & creating clipping paths, cel painting, color models
Painter 3.1 / 4.03 / 5.03 / 8
-for serious-retouching
Dreamweaver 4.01 / MX / MX 2004
-for html layout/revisions
Illustrator 88 / 3.05 / 5.0 / 7 / 8 / 10 / CS2
-for postscript artwork
Freehand 7.0 / 8.01
-for vector drawing
Fontographer 4.1.5
-for creating new type designs
AutoCad
-repurposing floorplans
Layout
Acrobat 4.05 / 5 / 6
-for compiling and adding navigational links to electronic documents
Distiller / 5
-for creating .pdf files from .eps sources for paper publishing and online versioning.
Flash 4.0a / 5 / MX
-for page layout, design, inter-activity and animation
InDesign 2 (OS9) / 3 / CS / CS2 (OSX)
-for page layout and design
QuarkXpress 3.32 / 4.00 / 4.11
-for page layout and design
Pagemaker 2 / 3 / 4.2
-for page layout
Misc Utilities
Retrospect 4.2 / 4.3
-for archiving/backing up data to CD-R and DLT
Toast 3.57 / 4 / 5.23
-for burning, archiving data & files to CD-R / hybrid CDs
Disknet 2.7
-for transferring animated frames to the Diskus (DDR)
GraphicConverter 5.02
-for file conversions (SGI to Macintosh & batch processing)
Fetch 3.03
-for ftp transfers
Transmit 1.7 and 2
-for ftp transfers in OS9 and OSX respectively
MacSFTP Classic
-for secure-ftp transfers in OS9
Telnet 2.7b4
-for remote file manipulation and Abekas playback
Eudora Light 6.01
-for email communication
Netscape 4.74 / IE5.1.6
-for web surfing and checking web designs
Tex-Edit Plus 2.53 / 4.9.6 (OSX)
-for manipulating ASCII and writing raw-html code
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Softimage|3D versions 1.3 through 3.0
-for animation/modeling and raytracing
Painterlyeffects 2.0
-for applying image based effects to stills or image sequences
FrameMaker 4.0
-for page layout
Zmail
-for internal/international mail (great for attachments)
Hardware Knowledge
. . . P l a t f o r m s . . .
Silicon Graphics : Personal Iris 4D workstation / Indigo / Indigo2 / Indy / Crimson / Octane
Apple Macintosh : (68k) Macintosh 512k thru to a Quadra 950 / PowerPC 6100 thru to a G4/866 dual (mirrored doors) and mac mini 1.42 (G4) and the first G5-dual-2GHz
IBM 386 (32 bit targa image capture board) / Windows 2000 Professional / XP
Commodore Amiga : 1000/2000
Atari : 1040ST/MEGA 4ST
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tel: (604) 536-0593 --- email: kfedirko@telus.net
Last updated: March, 12th., 2006