Creative? Sure. Technical? Yup. I've been told I'm of a rare breed: the type that does both the design and the development. Since then I've added to my repertoire leadership skills and a whole mess of experience. How much you ask? Well... professionally I'm coming up on 12 years of new media experience. Personally, I started teaching myself Visual Basic (3.0) and Photoshop (4.0?) when I was 15. That would bring the total of my nerdiness to 15 years.

It all started (professionally) back in Oklahoma City as an ASP developer for the University of Oklahoma. Shortly after being hired on there I was recruited by Ackerman McQueen Advertising (*the* premiere agency in the area) as a New Media developer. It was there I discovered my lust for both creative and technology and flourished with somewhat unlimited resources and support. Since then I've continued down this dual path of design & development. This ability made me a natural fit for a leadership position as I'm able to make decisions quickly that affect both creative and technical aspects of a project. Normally this requires a discussion from two or more individuals, whereas these considerations are made in my head on the fly. I save time and money, freeing up resources for doing what I love: making cool stuff. What, exactly, does this mean? Download my CV.

Spinny Wonderment. Otherwise known as: an excuse to fire up after effects.

spinny wonderment. from Charlie Fisher on Vimeo.

Sometimes I get bored. Sometimes I have a concept or a technique in my head. Sometimes these times coincide and I actually execute what's floating around in my head. This is one of those times. I was just playing around in adobe after effects and wanted to play with some particles and depth of field. I've done work in lightwave and I think it's interesting how AE is starting to blur the lines between what it can do (and has been classically used for) and what proper 3D environments have "always" been able to do. AE's still no replacement for a full-blown 3D environment like lightwave, maya or 3ds but it definitely offers some nice shortcuts which would otherwise require to fire up one of those beasts to accomplish something relatively "simple".

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