Help Me Create Mind Blowing Art!!
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Hello, My name is Christopher Spreer. I'm an artist trying to make and mix visuals for live music events. I've been making art my whole life using many different mediums. Over the past year and a half, I've been making and mixing visuals using (CGI) 3d modeling and animation programs. I'm trying to raise money to get a computer that can handle the processing power required to make professional-level animations. I've progressed extremely fast on my own, and I am at the point where I am beyond my current computer's capabilities. The cover photo I used for the go fund me campaign I made myself. It is a single frame of an animation I want to render. It took my Mac Book 2 hours to render the one frame in 4k resolution, and it sounded and felt like it was going to burst into flames in the process! That's not good! To make professional-level visuals, I need to be able to create animations in at least 4k resolution at 60 frames per second..... if a visual loop is 10 seconds long and it takes 2 hours to render one frame..... you do the math! Not going to work!!!! I need to build a computer with a heavy-duty graphics card that can handle the processing power required to make these renderings possible, costing about five grand. Also, with a serious graphics card, I will be able to use better rendering engines on the program I use to create a photorealistic detail that would make the work I've done on my current computer look like a 50s cartoon in comparison. If you wanna see some of the work I've done so far, you can check it out on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/earthb0und_misfit/
Before all of this, I was originally going to school for automotive design in Detroit. I Had to leave school after my second year because I was struggling with severe depression. It Felt bad leaving that behind at the time because I was very talented at it, and it'd be a shame if I let the talent go to waste. While I was out, I ended up stumbling into the world of skydiving, and I fell in love with it. It was the first time in a long time that I actually felt good about something. Somebody there found out I was good at art and asked me if I could help make art for a skydiving festival at our home dropzone, similar to the art you see at real music festivals. I agreed and ended up creating a stage design and some other art installations for the event. My plan was to project visuals onto the stage I created to go with the beat of the music. I acquired the proper programs to mix live visuals and rented a projector to run them at the event. This is how I ended up getting to where I'm at now. Other artists created most of the visuals I ran, and I just mixed and manipulated them to go with the music. I did create a lot myself too, but I can't do much with this computer, not at a professional level. I've been struggling to figure out what I want to pour my talent into, and I finally figured out this is it. Music is my favorite thing on the planet, but I'm way better at making visual art. To be able to make art that will dance to the music and let me be a part of creating the awesome experience people have at concerts would be perfect! Saving money for this endeavor has been difficult, and Ive already spent a lot on different software I need to make this happen. So if anybody is willing to help out, I would be incredibly grateful. I promise you won't be disappointed in the art I'll be able to create with this computer!
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Christopher Spreer
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New Windsor, NY