Post your Setup!!!

dm · Post by dm » Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:18 pm

Slo:

What's number 5? Isn't that an animation-related thing?

ruscular3d · Post by **ruscular3d** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:37 pm

toonertime wrote:man, how do you sit in that
awful chair?

Got to have a good chair!! It's worth a couple of hundred to get a good chair, because of good health. protect your back and protect your legs by allowing circulation of blood. the end of the seats should slope down as to not cut off the circulation of legs and the back should have a nice lumbar support.

I had a cheap chair and one day I had a bruise mark on my behind, and hadn't notice that my chair was killing me.

Vagabond · Post by **Vagabond** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:54 pm

ruscular3d wrote:Got to have a good chair!! It's worth a couple of hundred to get a good chair, because of good health. protect your back and protect your legs by allowing circulation of blood. the end of the seats should slope down as to not cut off the circulation of legs and the back should have a nice lumbar support.

I had a cheap chair and one day I had a bruise mark on my behind, and hadn't notice that my chair was killing me.

@ruscular3d: A COUPLE OF HUNDRED?!?!? HOW ABOUT A COUPLE OF PILLOWS???

@ponysmasher: Captain's Log Stardate AS2011... is what I first thought when I saw the set up. Seriously man, WOW!! You have room to put storybards on the wall and everything.

ponysmasher · Post by **ponysmasher** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:00 pm

Well I like Slowtiger's place. Looks cozy with all the books.

Now come on, I want to see more workspaces!

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:10 pm

dm: You're surely kidding? That's an animation disk, the old-fashioned analog one.

dm · Post by dm » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:13 am

slowtiger wrote:dm: You're surely kidding? That's an animation disk, the old-fashioned analog one.

Yes, kidding, but I didn't see a disk in your list (and I'd guess there are a few people here who don't know what that is either).

I'll try to compile a list of my junk soon. It includes an animation disk.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:19 am

Here was mine from a while ago while I did the 'Get Busy Living' video:

Though I later used my Wacom Cintiq. I tend to travel a fair amount so my setup is flexible. Also got a really good comfy chair that is kind-ish to my back.

dm · Post by dm » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:07 pm

Junk that I actually use relative to animation

In sight:

16 Field Animation Disk (Mechanical Concepts-Bluth design)
Cel Vinyl ink and paint
Art Tools Cel Punch
Series 7 Brushes
Ingram Bond and Bristol Paper
Tombow pencils

MacPro
2x21" monitors
Wacom Intuos
Canon scanner
Razer Mouse
Contour Shuttle
G4 laptop
2 Windows XP boxes
GTech Drives
LaCie Drives
Fantom Drives
FrameMaster II

Anime Studio Pro (7)
Toon Boom Studio and Animate
Flash
Pencil
Mirage
Photoshop
Illustrator
Acrobat
InDesign
Dreamweaver
Audacity
Blender
Celtx
Cobalt
Color
Compressor
DVD Studio
Final Cut Pro
Sketchup
Logic Pro
Cinema4D
Motion
Rhino
Shake
Soundtrack Pro
Toast
Transmit
Vectorworks
Waveburner
Wings

Logitech web camera
JVC Everio HD camera

Korg NanoPad
Korg NanoKontrol
Akai LPK25
Roland D5
Yamaha PSR-170
Edirol FA66
Teac and Behringer mixers
Boxes of Microphones

Steelcase Leap chair

a bunch of printers

more stuff that's elsewhere. (recorders, audio processors, cameras, etc.)

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:08 pm

Nice setup Mikdog, do you use that electronic drum set for your band or for making music for your animations?? im drummer as well.
I wish i had money to buy one of those.

ruscular3d · Post by **ruscular3d** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:21 pm

I think its great that some of you make your own music. I just purchase a Yamaha psr-170 and taking lesson. I hadn't thought about using it for animation.

I keep seeing great deals on a drum kit in craigslist. It's where I got my keyboard for $70

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:07 am

I bought those drums from a buddy third-hand for a super low price. I use it to practice for bands, most recent thing I do is VJ with my brother live while he plays his music and I fill in every now and then with these yamaha dtxplorer's linked to his ableton live setup. Our band is 'The Kiffness' http://www.facebook.com/thekiffness in South Africa 'kiff' is slang for 'cool' or 'good' or 'quality'. So I'm making animations in Anime Studio then rendering out parts to be triggered in Modul8 live with my M-Audio Trigger-Finger. Setup looks really cool.
Its nice to have the animations play in time to the beat which is how we've set things up by linking two laptops - one music for him while he sings, plays live trumpet and also keyboard on his PCR-300 midi keyboard and loops audio and triggers different parts of song with a Novation Launchpad midi controller and Ableton Live, and one laptop for visuals for me which connects to a big screen or projector. Keef.

ggm1960 · Post by **ggm1960** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:32 am

I've always been more of an audio guy so I have a pile of guitars, keyboards, audio interfaces, amps, etc.

For relevant audio programs:
Logic Pro 9
Digital Performer 6
Propellerhead Reason 5/Record 1.5
Ableton Live 8
Sonar Producer 7
All the IK Multimedia soft synths and Amplitube 3
Other soft synths from Arturia and Applied Acoustic Systems
Line 6 POD Farm/KB37

For Graphics/Video/Animation:
Anime Studio 7
Poser 8
Final Cut Express 4
Photoshop CS5

I run most this stuff on a couple MacBook Pros, the newest being a 17" Intel i5 MC024LL/A model and the other a 15" core 2 duo MB133LL/A model. I still have an aging Dell 3Ghz P4 PC on which I run Sonar and Paint Shop Pro.