User:Jenkins08

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About Me

Synopsis

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23 years old.
Australian.
Independent Developer/Designer/Composer/Modder/Gamer

Finer Detail

  • Former Fencer (no not the Jousting type, digging holes in the ground, coming home with blisters everyday type Fencer)
  • I have an IT Certificate II from the NSW Institute of TAFE - i could probably get a Cert IV but it's too far to travel.
  • I Graduated Junior High School and left approx halfway through Grade 11.
  • Since then i've had a few different Jobs, mainly in Retail or Labor but my goal is to work in the Games Industry.
  • Got my first gaming console when i was 6 years old but had been using a computer at that time for at least 2 years
  • (Started on Apple II in Kindergarten, and was the only kid interested in using them aswell since it was Apples demon spawn of DOS)
  • Gaming Consoles i've owned in Chronological order;
NES (1993) > SNES (1995) > PS1/N64 (1997) > PS2 (2001) > PSP/GameCube (2005) > XBOX360 (2007) > Current
Tip.pngTip:I had more problems with PS2 than any other console put together

PC has always been a Home away from Home for me. Slowly over the years i've taught myself how to do just about everything computer related and along the way teaching others around me as much as possible, so that in the hope they don't have to go through what i've been through.

Skills & Experience

Well here goes, i'm going to try to list all the skills & XP i have with some form of sorting. I wont just include Computer Skills either so this will be largely varied.

Gaming

18 Years + experience

If i tried to list all the games i've played, i would be here forever.

PC

18 Years+ experience

Skills include:
  • Advanced File Management (Mass File/Directory Naming, Renaming, Sorting, Structure etc)
  • Intermediate/Advanced Batch Scripting (Installers, compiling, and everything in File Management)
  • Advanced researching skills/experience
  • Basic understanding of Win32 programming
  • Intermediate Networking skills (Can setup small/medium sized Network, also things like Router Troubleshooting etc)
  • Beginner/Intermediate Database understanding
  • Competent typist
  • Intermediate MS Excel user - created over 4000 excel files for Fencing Company (Quotes, Invoices etc)
  • Intermediate Hardware installation - Built current computer and also previous 2
  • Full understanding and more than 3 years HTML experience. See Example
  • Beginner/Intermediate JavaScript experience. Know basic functions and Vars enough to use them effectively
  • Same goes for CSS - And not Counter Strike:Source, Cascading Style Sheets :P
  • Basic understanding of MySQL and lightly touched on Apache aswell
  • Basic/Intermediate understanding of Database Accounting such as QuickBooks (Which i prefer) and MYOB (Yuk)
  • Basic/Intermediate knowledge and experience in C++ coding. (Understanding of classes, declarations, constructors, destructors etc)

Design/Art/Media

12+ Years Experience

  • Approx. 9 years+ using Adobe Photoshop
  • ~6 years animation experience (Image animations and also KeyFrame anims) Example Here
  • 1 Year+ experience using Vue.

Musical Composition

7+ years Experience

  • Advanced use of FruityLoops Studio & Sony Acid Pro. Tried Reason3 and CuBase but preferred FL and AP
  • Tought myself Guitar and Piano (Piano first when i was younger, basic stuff and Guitar in my early teens)
  • I can read sheet music (not fluently), but Tabs are easier to use.
  • To this date mixed/composed over 250 individual songs and covers
  • Flatmates tought me how to play drums aswell, would love to have a kit to bash around :/

See User:Jenkins08#Music

PlayStation Portable

3 years+ in Help & Support

  • Sounds lame but you ask i can fix it if it's FirmWare4 or under / PSP2000 or PSP3000)
  • Purchased a PSP when they were "Virgins" and basically had no games apart from Twisted Metal and then GTA
  • Learnt some basic LUA/C Programming for PSP

Source Mapping

2 years+ Experience

Source Modding

2 years+ Experience

Source Modeling

12 Months+ experience

  • I'm still learning the basics on this one.
  • I can create/edit meshes in 3DS Max and XSI, preferably XSI. Because of my animation experience with images XSI is fairly easy to understand but there are certain things such as my low screen resolution that prevent me from using the program to its fullest ability (Some controls are cut off because i can see it was designed for Higher screened resolutions
  • QC Files are easy.
  • Skeletons and Bones are pretty easy too, just need to get more confident at creating the main model.
  • I'm really interested in Model Animations especially Cinematic Animations. I need better Hardware to start creating those me thinks.
  • Beginner to Intermediate Houdini user.
  • 6 months experience using Zbrush

Mapping Other

Varied Experience

  • ~7 Years World Builder Experience.
  • Few months Experience on TGEA SDK
  • Picked up Bits and pieces in CryEngine (Crysis Editor) and Dunia (FarCry 2 editor)

Current Projects

ToxisResiduum

Currently i am developing a mod for Orangebox with a close friend of mine.

The mod is closed source and a beta is not expected to be released for quite some time,
However, i encourage you to keep track of the mod over at ModDB!

Music

  • At this present time i've completed 7 full LP Albums, and i am working on my 8th untitled release at the moment.
  • You can hear my tracks over on Soundcloud.com

Art

Art is always on my mind and some can be seen over at DeviantART.com (Out of date) Map-wise i don't have much released to the public but you can download some from my Garrysmod.org Profile (No longer develop for Gmod)

Life Changing Links

  • Here are some links that have changed my life in one way or another, thought they would be worth sharing here if anywhere...
Incredible Documentary on Half-Life 2. As i don't live in USA i don't know this is true or not, but i would describe that Doco as "HL2 - Behind the Blow"
That story changed the way i view Valve forever, and for the Good too :)
Great article and very informative on the Fourth Dimension
To do with Copyright etc. READ IT!

VDC Contributions

Smaller VDC Contributions

System Specs

For anyone who is interested, here are my system specs plus a few extras

Computer #1 

Coolermaster CM690 Case
ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium Core i7 920 @ 2.66GHZ
896MB Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX260+ OC Edition Graphics Card
3x2GB DDR3 GSkill 1600mhz RAM
Amacrox 750W Freestyle PSU
LG 18x DVD-DL Burner
LG 5.1 Surround Sound Home Theatre System 650W RMS

Computer #2 (Non operational) 

GigaByte GA-EP45-DS3L/S3L Motherboard
Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo E4600 2.6GHZ
512MB Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 8500GTNX Graphics Card
2x1GB DDR2 KINGSTON RAM
LG 18x DVD-DL Burner

Hard Drives 

1x1TB Western Digital SATAII (external)
1x1TB Samsung SATAII (external)
1x500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA (external media player)
1x500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA (Broken)
1x400GB Samsung IDE (external)
1x250GB Seagate Barracuda SATA
1x160GB Seagate Barracuda SATAII
1x80GB Maxtor IDE
1x20GB Seagate Barracuda IDE
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