8 Secrets to Intergalactic Conquest
summary
Lists eight concrete pearls for career practice and shows what each produced: flash sites that land work, holograms for Tron and Oblivion, a $20k LED/logo shoot for Adobe, Samsung commissions, and a practical 18‑foot LED chamber short film. Tools named: Flash, Maya, Arnold, Houdini, Cinema 4D, TouchDesigner, industrial robots and laser projectors. Demonstrations include 40,000–100,000 refractive particles, projection‑mapped moving robots with a synced camera, and infrared photography — all built and field‑tested.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Intergalactic conquest intro
- 0:44Roots matter
- 2:07Early career lessons
- 3:31Living your craft
- 5:15Diversity in motion graphics
- 7:02Putting work online
- 8:27Holograms for Tron Legacy
- 10:21Invest in personal projects
- 17:21Personal work to paid work
- 19:01Practical refraction and LEDs
- 27:01Personal work for clients
- 27:21Power of collaboration
- 33:40Robots and projection mapping
- 39:05Release without expectations
- 43:19No expectations no disappointment
- 47:47Reference as asset
- 50:54Reinvent yourself
- 52:39Narrative in light
- 57:43Practical vs post production
- 1:00:46Spread love and karma
- 1:02:10Conquest is self expression
- 1:02:51Q&A
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