About

Name Joacim

Age Born December 1987

Location Vestfold, Norway

Contact/Social

Interests

Computers, Creativity, Design, Digital Art (2d and 3d), Education, Friends, Games, History, Movies, Music, Science Fiction, Social Media, Technology and anything else that seems interesting and is fun to do.

Current situation

Student, studying my first year of Interactive Media Creative Arts (game design and concept art (2d and 3d)) at the University of Hedmark.

Why I blog

I blog because it’s one of few easy ways to release your own thoughts and doings to masses. If you’re unsure about starting your own blog, I would say do it, just do it, scribble down your thoughts and publish it. Even if you don’t like it or see any reason in it, there’s definitely someone else out there who does.

Blogging is brilliant for doing just that – writing down or publishing whatever you find useful and sharing it! I’m probably going to be a blogger for a while. Even if I blog about silly, dumb stuff to you, it might be useful for someone else out there, you never know.

I’ve found out that having this blog is a nice way to show people my creative side as well. I often upload work in progress, sketches, concepts, studies, or finished drawings. Most of my uploaded work can either be found in the art category, my DeviantArt account, or in my Flickr stream. Feel free to drop notes, comments, or critique about any of the work I do, I can only get stronger by receiving constructive criticism.

Tools

Hardware
Workstation – Core2Duo 2GHz, 4GB RAM, 3TB storage, nVidia G700 series GFX
Laptop – Asus EEE PC 1000, Dell Precision M6400 (primary workstation for the time being)
Digital Tablet – Wacom Intuos4 Medium
Monitor – ViewSonic 22″, Viewsonic 17″

Software
2D – Adobe Photoshop CS3, Corel Painter 11
3D – Autodesk 3Ds Max, Autodesk Mudbox 2009, Google SketchUp 7, Pixologic ZBrush

I’m lacking a reasonable camera, I do have a HTC Hero phone, but it’s not really a camera. Which is bad, kinda.