Vas'Drakken

210 18th St Apt#4
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
United States
ph: (609)-384-6283

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Welcome to my little corner of the web.

 

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    There is nothing greater than the pursuit of life liberty and happiness. Apparently some disagree. It is amazing that many are short sited in that to govern means taking responsibility for those in trusted your care. The image linked above is my attempt at cleaning up an image of the Declaration of Independence. I cleaned up several images I got from the national archives years ago. 

 

Check out the sketch book section for what I am working on now, and the fiction section for short stories.

                                                                Benjamin

 

Mindset & Skills:

    For those unfamiliar with the quality of my work, my demo reel speaks much clearer than words will explain, here is a summary.

    I am an Artist first and foremost. I create art simply because it is fun, if the money was all I was concerned over I would have stayed in IT. That does not mean I don't need money, I have bills and student loans just like everyone else. Initially I was an Environment and Texture Artist but I'm finding I usually end up modeling or shading, and I am willing to build whatever ever needs to be built I just prefer hard-surface because it has to appear to function, where as organic is all subjective.

   I have worked in many different packages, everything from Blender to Rhino to Max & Maya, and when it comes down to it most create objects as points in space, be it nurbs, polys or sub-ds. It is the tools that change and how flexible they are. Some programs require you to adapt to their ideal work flow and others like Maya allow you to create an ideal interface creating a faster work flow. As you can infer from that I prefer being able to put the tools I use at my finger tips rather than whatever the programmer who will never use the tools thought would be handy.

      Last my background as a techie, I am familiar with the complexity of how software works. Most of the time it does what you want the rest of the time you tweak things until it does what you want. Then again at the end of the day no matter what I build the question of does it look good is being answered by someone other than myself.

Packages:

  • Maya 6, 7, 8.5, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Photo Shop 6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3,  CS4
  • Paint Shop Pro 9, and 7, 8, 10, 11

Skills:

  • Traditional Art
  • Problem Solving
  • Trouble Shooting
  • Pen & Ink
  • Digital Painting
  • Creativity
  • Computer Systems
  • Coding C++, Mel, Python
  • Fixing Drivers, Printers, and Software...

 

 

 

Copyright - Benjamin Solheim "VasDrakken". All rights reserved.

210 18th St Apt#4
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
United States
ph: (609)-384-6283