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  • Fluent in English, German; learning English, German, Japanese
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Film postproduction
  • Visual effects in films and commercials at Film faculty o...
  • From Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
  • Profile 65% complete

About Me

I am a keen filmmaker. There are many aspects what to do, cause films are so complex, it can't be achieved by one man.

But I like everything. How has it started?
When I was a child, I started dissasembling everything technical. I wanted to know, how it works. Of course parents took it as a useless thing and they automatically threw it away, because it wasn't in a one piece and no one could put it back except me. But I didn't want to. After some time, I started repairing things. Even magically, just by "touching them". As I was growing up, I started to develop also in some other areas. Computers certainty, but something new - I started to try out some art. After getting some know-how in this field, I wasn't born in, it's still quite hard for me to get things perfect. But, as I love films and animations, I decided to blend this two fields together. The result is an IT guy with some artistic skills. I love Pixar animations. And I want to be an animator :)
I started doing it so 6 years ago. And I really feel, that I am very close to my goal. I have got 6 years experience in Maya and 3 years experience in Nuke. There are also some other software of course, but that's for later discussion.

Now I am living in Prague and working as a 2D VFX compositor.

What about my other hobbies?
Well, I love music very much too. Music like Two Steps from Hell or Audiomachine motivated me to work on myself. I am learning to play on the piano and would like to try out composing some music too. But there is less time for it when you have got a work and try to develop some other goal skills for you future work aswell.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've got some free space in my room. If you want to visit Prague, or maybe Bratislava, let me know.

And... I want to get some time for travelling. As I provide some free space for someone to explore Prague, the same would be nice to find someone who could do the same for me :). I am open to everything.

Interests

My interests mentioned here are for a long talk ;-)

  • singing
  • photography
  • music festivals
  • film festivals
  • chocolate
  • chinese food
  • japanese food
  • mexican food
  • running
  • movies
  • music
  • live music
  • karaoke
  • hiking
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • animation
  • biology
  • computer science
  • neuroscience
  • psychology
  • filmmaking
  • films
  • food
  • cinema
  • phylosophy
  • universe
  • quantum physics
  • film
  • gym
  • australia
  • canada
  • japan
  • choir
  • via ferrata
  • new zealand
  • vfx
  • england
  • japanese culture
  • social psychology
  • scotland
  • compositing
  • cgi
  • mpc
  • postproduction
  • grading
  • double negative
  • weta digital
  • framestore
  • atomic fiction

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Coldplay, OneRepublic, Twenty One Pilots, Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Pipers, the celtic music aswell), Lumineers, Admiral Fallow, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Lana Del Rey, Aya, Enya, Maroon, The Aliens, Radiohead, R.E.M, Sam Smith, Bob Marley, Nilf Lofgren, The XX, Nightwish. In general - Rock, Pop, Celtic, some of Hip-Hop, some of Metal, some of Jazz.

Music film sets and soundtracks: Two Steps from Hell, AudioMachine, Immediate Music, The Cinematic Orchestra, E.S. Posthumus, Hans Zimmer, Steve Jablonsky, Dexter Britain, Brian Crain, Yiruma

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbvnDA2Dho

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching - practising English by talking about anything. Finding some better ways to say some sentences in a more profound, vivid or wise way. Just playing with the words. I can teach you how to learn a language if needed.

Learn - from my side, I didn't talk in German for a very very long time. It was mixing up with the English language. My grammar got worse in both of them afterwards. I had to choose one of them. As I heard german language every day at Austria school, it may stay in my subconsciousness and get quickly back afterwards. I needed to develop this subconsciousness in my English evenly. That's the reason, why I dropped the German language for some time. I know, it's just about the practice. I hope, I will.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My technical things - I can get your computer clean and faster as it never was before :D. Teach them, how to avoid it to be slow again. Make it just working perfectly. Repair some stuff if needed. The same with android phones.

And what else? My verve, my life experience, my point of view about the world and universe.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Scotland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Slovakia

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