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How'd you get that lovely women to sit at the edge of Niagara Falls?

Posted by KublaKhan Nice. How'd you get that lovely women to sit at the edge of Niagara Falls?

Fairly simple - a few vodka coolers and she was good to go.

whats your background in the industry, if you don't mind me asking? (like, education or self taught, fav programs to use, etc)

Posted by screamingwatts whats your background in the industry, if you don't mind me asking? (like, education or self taught, fav programs to use, etc)

Got a few hours? ;)

For much of the 80s I worked in Toronto as a camera operator/darkroom technician in the lithoprint industry. Paste-up, layout and 4-color neg processing.

Towards the late 80s I started dabbling in basic computer graphics with some of the earliest apps available (mostly primitive ones that came bundled as scanner software). BarneyScan was among the first half-decent ones I recall...which later became Photostyler (when Aldus Corp.) took it over and re-tooled it.

I also got away from the litho industry and got in to video production, and got hired by Director's Film Co. of Canada doing camera work and editing for TV commercial casting calls. I also did freelance videography for CFTO-TV at the same time.

From '89-91 I took Computer Graphics Technical Illustration at Seneca College, where I started working with early versions of CorelDraw (and Photoshop for Mac). I also worked with video capture and rendering with an early prototype for the Genographics video system. During those two years I also worked co-op terms as a layout and graphic designer for a large advertising agency in Scarborough.

After college I temporarily shelved the graphics stuff for a while and went to work for Adults Only Video as head video editor and duplication/production technician.

In '95 I got back in to computer graphics when the software finally caught up with the type of images I wanted to create. I started developing my own techniques for digital compositing since there weren't really any manipulation tutorials available for what I wanted to do. I worked mostly with an aging copy of Aldus Photostyler v2.0 since it had more precise cloning capabilities (Pshop was comparatively clunky and ran like a tortoise on my systems back then).

In '99 my wife and I started Kastle Archives Productions Inc. and we opened our first commercial (adult) paysite that year to showcase all the adult fantasy composites I'd been making since roughly '95. By that point I was also doing a lot of freelance graphic design for several online clients (banners, logos, web graphics, etc.).

Which brings us to today...

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