David Cauldron

@pickled: yeah, I already considered those implications and don’t need to go into detail about career decisions or possibilities. I actually want to go into details when the technical questions about Houdini arise, which I’m sure is something that’s going to happen at some point and I hope to have some constructive discussions here with you all. See you soon

Yeah Midphase, that’s exactly what I was going to answer. I have more than just one passion and I started making music and drawing already as a child. Unfortunately I couldn’t start a career in any of my most beloved professions and there are many reasons why I could not do that.

So now both of them music and computer graphics are some kind of hobbies to me, but I don’t like to call them hobbies because for me they’re more important than that. If I choose to make my own animations it’s because creating is my real passion, sometimes I create using sounds some other times using images. I’m not completely new to CG either, I don’t know if I mentioned it before but I studied architecture for a while and worked parallel at an architecture studio doing renderings with 3Ds Max and vray, I’ve worked with some video editing tools as well. The basics for editing video aren’t unknown to me but the pictures I have in mind for my music aren’t things I can recreate without the help of a 3D Software like maya, 3Ds Max, Houdini or Blender to name a few examples.

I know some people might be so lucky to have that option to dedicate their life to their biggest passion and let others do additional jobs, I’m not in that position and for the moment I enjoy doing both things by myself. What I mean is that some things might work well for some people but that doesn’t mean that will also work for everyone and I want to learn and spend some time creating with cg software, I’m not planning to make money with my creations so why should I pay a professional for something like that xD

thanks, but unfortunately the indie versions of Maya / 3ds max aren't available in my country yet I'll keep an eye on that anyways just in case it becomes available some day