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beefynerd

Shiloh joined Feb 18, 2007

Well...I'm an art student disguised as a gamer. Seriously, I am an art student, studying to be an artist for games, film, and TV. I focus primarily upon game for my education, but I can see myself working on art for the other forms of entertainment. I focus upon Texturing/Lighting and 3D Modeling (hard-surface, environmental, character, and orgranic). I have a website dedicated to showcasing my 3D and 2D artwork in case anyone wishes to check it out...the link is down in my contact info. Other than that, I'm a hard-working soul, busying myself with my job playing with knives and swords. :P Seriously though, I work for a cutlery retailer in a local shopping mall, been there for six years. I game when I can, if school isn't in session. I do a lot of table-top RPGing (D&D), as well as a lot of FPSing in HL2DM and the occasional CSS. My fave game so far being HL2 and all its episodes.

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Posted by beefynerd on Sep 9th, 2008 digg this super bookmark

So I just recently had one of my hard drives on my PC go corrupt on me...and it looked like a software problem that caused it. Luckily the night before I transferred my work I was working on to my USB flash drive so I have a copy of everything I need...whew! I ran a data recovery tool on the hard drive and recovered about 60GB of data on that drive, which was about how much I had on that drive. The only problem is, some of the data is corrupted still. Image files that won't load, Maya files that won't load, etc. But I remain hopeful that this is not a lost cause. Now I just need to arrange my files and all. The small amount of useless data I put onto that hard drive is still there and I haven't had any issues yet, but needless to say, I will be backing up that data before I use that hard drive again. Oh well. Back to work...