User talk:Ricard

Ricard is an Information Technology and Motion Picture Production professional with research interests emphasizing the ongoing development of digital cinema and interactive 3d environments. He has advanced programming and development experience including:

• Programmer - all compiler and interpreter languages
• Server Specialist at IBM
• College Computer Science Instructor - Operating Systems
• Development of earliest digital cinema editing tools
• Digital Cinema Workflow Consultant
• Network Administrator - Unix and Windows
• Advanced interactive/dynamic Internet/Website development
• Producer and director of motion pictures
• Proficency with Maya, Avid, FCP and Premiere Pro

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I began my programming interest a long time ago when I first fooled around with an Altair that I built from a kit. With only eight switches and 8 lights, I delighted in "teaching" it how to add two numbers and output the results. I really had very little interest in computers generally until the pc was introduced. My first replacement for a typewriter was an "Osborne" used in my film editing business. I remember one of the most famous animation houses in Hollywood at that time controlling a camera with the first TRS-80. My first home pc was a Radio Shack Color Computer. (the expensive version with 32k ram instead of 16k, no hard drive, no floppy!)

My first "real" pc was a 386 with 2MB ram and a 80Mb hard drive, DOS 4 and Windows 3.0 which cost about two and a half thousand dollars! During ownership of my second pc, a 486, I played the original Myst at 800x600 resolution. Also, that same year, I developed the first graphics-based website at Ohio University.

Now semi-retired, I spend my summers in Paris and my winters in Carolina and Rio. I currently have two movies in production. With Cyan's open source realease of Uru, I'm learning something new about 3ds Max and D'ni Ages.

~R