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Short Version |
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I love to draw, paint, make visual
effects, motion graphics, make movies and watch TV. |
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Long version |
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Okay here it goes… Something about
me... Sean McMenemy |
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I’ve been making art and films ever
since I was a kid. Not all of it good but it’s always a
learning experience. Like most nerds my age, my life changed
the day I saw Star Wars! That would have made me about 10.
Up to that point I wanted to be an Astronaut. Then I
realized I could create worlds without going to space and
well, really without doing any math. I grew up in Kansas
City, Missouri. Any fellow Missourians want to drop me a
line that would be great! Miss that town… |
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After going to film school at
SIU-C, which has a great
film program! They really give you the opportunity to get
into the whole process of making films from writing to
directing and everything in-between. Aspiring filmmakers
should at least check it out! After film school I worked at
an ABC affiliate as a producer/director. Talk about gorilla
filmmaking, most of the time commercials I had to produce
needed to be on the air within a day or 2 from the time the
client signed up for air time. I had to do everything from
writing, shooting, lighting, directing to editing. It was a
great exercise for figuring out what mattered in shot or in
the final product. |
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Some how during this time
I got mixed up in the video gaming industry. Keep in mind at
the time the best place to play video games was still in an
arcade. Then a guy called me up that just happened to make
one of the video games that I had been pumping a ton of my
tuition money into in-between classes. He offered me a job
as a game artist. I never knew there was such a thing. Back
then you had about 32 colors 32 pixels tall to make a
character. The industry has evolved since then. Good thing! |
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Back to business, I’ve been creating
graphics professionally since 1988 for multimedia company in
KC. Then I was creating graphics on slides for 12 projector
slide shows. Most of you reading this might not even know
what a slide is, but take my word for it at the time this
was high tech and one of the best learning experiences I
could have ask for just starting out. |
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So I’ve worked with Super8 all the
way up to 35mm film. But I’m really happy that digital has
come along it makes life faster and I work with everything
on my laptop. I’ve worked on videos, films and video games
and
Arctic Thunder for XBOX,
Golden Tee Golf and a ton
of games that never went anywhere. That’s life in the
creative field but it’s also a good thing you get to move on
to new and more creative ventures! |
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While working in the video game
industry I also had a freelance motion graphics and visual
effects studio called SEANFX (original, right?) I just
wanted to make my name easy to find and easy to remember. It
was always fun mixing up the gaming work with video projects
mainly because they are so different it really keeps you on
your toes. Especially for a person like me, I guess I
consider myself a generalist, with skills in shooting,
editing, 3D modeling, graphic design and as my bother could
tell you if I can’t afford it, I would just building it. I
still do that. So I’m a bit of an industrial designer and
engineer you can thank Star Wars for that too. All the
gadgets and space ships can really inspire a person. |
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I put the freelance on hold to focus
on a few other things like family, work and my own creative
projects. In case you missed it you can see my latest film
by
clicking here. Really you
shouldn't have missed that link it’s all over my website.
Hope you like. Please leave a comment on some of the
other sites that is hosting, if you have time. |
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I have more projects in the
works and if you want can subscribe to my FREE film cast
CLICK HERE
or
just view the
films right from this site. |
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Okay that’s me. Hope you find me out
there in the information super highway, wait do they still
call it that? I mean web 2.0 |
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