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About 15-16. I was working part-time in high school at a local TV station doing on-air text-based graphics for their TV-based news alert system that ran on local stations (the shitty ones that tell you when the next Christmas tree pick-up is). There was this Asian guy, Twan, working a few rooms away and always working late on something. He was doing motion graphics in something called Aladdin Systems' Razor or such, and one day I popped over to talk to him about what he was doing. He explained to me all about motion graphics, and I took an interest to it. He told me to tinker around with Photoshop first to see how interested I was in the technical side of things. He gave me a copy of Photoshop 5.0, which had shitty licensing control back in the day (use a hack file to crack the source, and then just set your computer's date back to 1915 and it worked). So I installed it on the computer at work and made a few shitty graphics and really liked how easy it was to do some "creative stuff." Then the company I was working (Cablevision) for got bought out by Adelphia Cable, and everyone got big bonus checks. I had only been there about 8 months, but I somehow got a $2000 check as well. I spent it all on a then-new Compaq tower, a personal phone line in my bedroom with six months of service, six months of AOL service, and the rest is history. Spent the next two years making shitty posters and flyers emulating tDR and getting better at Flash. Went to college, learned about design as a trade skill, and kept improving from there.
- I wish I could find Twan now on LinkedIn or something and thank him, but I never caught his last name.dMullins