Promising Talent : fmdstudio

[minimalistik]

I think this guy has promising talent. Only 15 but has involved good skills already with graphic and flash development.

www.fmdstudio.net (http://www.fmdstudio.net)

[slumgutt]

Yeah, I agree! I saw this site a while ago in the Showcase & Critiques forum... It's looks alot like that TheWhiteRoom (or something) site though, I dunno if you remember it?

[mlk]

wow... only 15.. impressive.. he's got my personnal awaed of the best site i've seen today...

[El_Thierro]

Man, he's only 15 years old?

Jeez, did he just make me feel old and untalented :( :beam:

[DDD]

this is a good site, but the fuzzy over-exposed look has been done several times. BUt I do like the sense of organization but I would not put this beyond the areach of the average 15 year old.

[minimalistik]

but the fuzzy over-exposed look


You mean that impact like effect when the site starts loading?

[they_played_tri]

Impressive work. I do feel slightly inadequate now looking at that. I remeber seeing that when he first posted it up. Didnt realise how young he was. Kids eh... Them and their opposable thumbs

[heathrowe]

agree with ddd, and at 15 thats still a great lead on todays design market.

heathrowe

[DDD]

You mean that impact like effect when the site starts loading?

Nah....how all the edges look fuzzy and out of focus. A real cool effect but I have seen it waay to many times.

[berkoWitZ]

I like the site, but he lacks definitely lacks profesionalism talking, u dont have to say ur a mediocre person in ur biography, or when I rollover the flower.... saying me that....know what I mean?

[REEF·]

Yes! And I'm only 13!

I:-)

[berkoWitZ]

;P

[berkoWitZ]

he could be 10 years or 50 but still, me(for example) as a potential client dont want to read that stuff

[REEF·]

"I began life like all people do, as a baby" - :sigh:.

[Michael Chen]

Very talented :)

[mansour]

indeed

[d100763]

I'm 26 and blown away by the work of a 15 year old. Yes, the stuff on the roll-over is not professional, but then his in sophomore year of high school possibly landing clients. I don't know about you but, I that's pretty respectable. The Flash experince in years he has is important, but like it's said, the kid got the jump on a lot programmers out there. Comparing him to 2advanced is not really fair, I like this guys work.

[berkoWitZ]

yep, definitely, I love the colors, very good job

[minimalistik]

Well of course for you guys whose been in the flash web development field for a good while, you would know what things have been done over many times. Hes only 15 so wouldnt it be more likely he would follow the popular trends? Although hes done some things that have been done over but I think he hasnt develop at a deeper level yet, hes still growing talent and thats why i said "promising talent". Continuing his experience in this field can evolve his creativity and originality, something we havent seen before. But seeing how you guys were saying about all that info in his biography, I dont think he wanted to create the site as "professional" for clients. The site is still mostly a personal playground through his words, the flower (when you rollover). The dope award also suggests that his website is good but still needs to grow. But I dont find anything wrong with his biography. Its his history. I dont think its should always be somewhat professional....

[Krilnon]

Why do people think that young people can't develop at a deep level?

[aveceva]

One of his problems is the lack of animation in the site, he says it's "designing with motion", well where the hell is this "motion" he speaks of.

lol, thanks guys for the comments, didnt realise this was posted here till right now :)

[minimalistik]

Hey man, hows the school holidays been? What school you attend?

[.soulty]

hey aveceva you posted recently in the site of the week didnt you?

Site looks good, those sides fly outs are a little hard to read, but its a cool site, another thing that i personally think ruins a cool design is those skill level indicators in the ability section, they look like pixelated circles, and the colour purple and light blue are just nasty, i think that section would look much better if they were normal circles or some other shape with different colour fills.

15 though aye... wow:!:... nice to see you representing Australia as well.. hehe ;)

[chriskalani]

Holy Shnyps! 15!? --that little punk...

[aveceva]

i attend cherrybrook tech in nsw :) school holidays ahve been wasted away (scuze my bd typing, arms are tired from riding....riding bike, a bike...:P). cause ive been llike sleeping at 1am and waking up at 2 pm. losing a lot of time :(

[aveceva]

i attend the highschool in cherrybrook :) school holidays ahve been wasted away cause ive been llike sleeping at 1am and waking up at 2 pm. losing a lot of time :(

[.soulty]

i went to hornsby tafe for my 3 year advanced diploma in graphic design, i reccomend it, nice tafe, good teachers and some pretty good computers (last time i checked they had a room full of g5's !)

[aveceva]

i want to get into UTS for visual communications

[minimalistik]

lolz. Your not the only one sleeping late and waking up late. They should extend it took another 2 weeks I reckon ;) Cherrybrook? Thats way out west isnt it? I go to st. mary's in the city.

[aveceva]

i have no idea if its west or what. all i know is that i live in a place called cherrybrook lol :P ive always failed geography.

[smoothmedia]

Thats an impressive site right there, especially for his age. When I was 15, the websites I was churning out looked not much better than word documents with clipart. His photoshop skills are very impressive and the site in general is very visually appealing. Clean, simple, attractive, and informative, really what all websites should be like. So many modern Flash creatives, are simply TOO creative, loosing the majority of their visitors with "experimental" navigation systems. Business are looking to land clients, not entertain the flash gurus. This kid knows wuts important, and has a very bright future in the business.

[Jasninder]

what a lovely font on that site, anyone know what font is it?
plz let me know, thanks, site is beautiful..this guy is gona go very far, great idea..my site is all white too..this looks much better..music is nice, impressed!!

[Kristopher]

its important in the computer world to get started early (kinda like pro sports :( ).

i didn't even own or turn on a computer til my junior year in high school. so you are doing good kid.


(p.s. not to elaborate too much, but just to defend my skills: i've read, slept, ate, and breathed web and print design along with Flash for the last year. my knowledge has grown exponentially).


now carry on. great site!

[Kristopher]

oh yeah here's a tid bit of advice for ya, Thomas:

Since your are only 15 and have a beautiful site like that already, I'm assuming you haven't had many college level design / photoshop courses yet? (Correct me if I'm wrong.) So, generally, everything you've done so far is self-taught.

If this is the case, which it was with me, I highly recommend finding a liberal arts college where you can take a lot of business, communication, and computer science (coding) classes. This way, you can be more of an all around accet to whomever you work for.


Why? do you ask, Thomas? Well, in the design world, there really are two avenues: your own business or working for a firm (or someone else in general). Let's disect it further:

A) If you start your own business out of college (or even during college like I'm doing), you'll have a strong background in small business management. Every bit of advice I've gotten from professionals out in the real world as been that it's not the design part that's tough - it's managing your business. Secondly, you'll have to do almost everything. This means that you'll have to communicate with customers, do a lot of your IT work, and code at least a little. Backgrounds in communications and comp science will only help the situation.

B) If you work FOR someone, having a background in business, communications, and comp sceince will only prove to your boss that you are more of an accet to the business. This in turn gives you a little better job security and will boost your pay.





So essentially what I'm trying to say is that your portfolio is what lands you a job. But it's your background in other areas of a business that will keep you there. So if you have a good portfolio going that's all self-taught, why not look for a college that offers a broad range of other important areas of study to go along with graphic/visual communication?

[CanadianGuy]

Hands down to that kid. He obviously has 'the eye' and could do great things if he sticks with it. After all, how many 'careers' did you go through between the age of 15 -25?

[aveceva]

wow, thanks for the advice kris, didnt know that business management skills were valuble in the design industry :) will choose my year11 subs carefully such as: "business studies" :)

[aveceva]

Since your are only 15 and have a beautiful site like that already, I'm assuming you haven't had many college level design / photoshop courses yet? (Correct me if I'm wrong.) So, generally, everything you've done so far is self-taught.

ive had some dodgy "electronic media" classes where they taught photoshop, but really, it was stuff like "use the lasso tool to crop the head, then the change the color of the hair" and i had some fat laddy that thought she was some critique at an art gallery. I also had a class in multimedia, i just designed a presentation and modelled a rocket in 3DS. Our teacher was cool, "the best way to learn, is to teach yourself, basics are all thati can really share with you". What a swell guy, gave me an A+ :) All these classes didnt give me any additional help or actually taught me anything so i was sort of disapointed, but it was expected :(. Ive foundthatthe best way to learn is to go on these forums :) My firest every forum that i joined was www.daviesinteractive.com but that is down nnow :(

Now who wants to see my first ever flash site, made about....3 years ago? this was seriosuly, got flash out of teh box, first thing :P

[minimalistik]

lolz why not, I posted one of my first sites in the Showcase forum. With what Kris said, I think your serious being a web/graphic designer and it would be a good start to work for a firm. Since you have done a bit of work already work on that and that way you will see clients coming in. This way you have something to stand on if you decide to work for a studio. Its not just being competent using these skills but also utilise your skills also knowing about how the business/economic field runs. If you become head director for exmaple, you would defintely need those business skills as well as communcation. Adding you have business skills in your resume can also add empahasis that your clearly for the job. Next year you will be in yr 11, why not do a tafe course as well do add to your resume as well a planned college as well.

[Kristopher]

i just checked out www.burnkit.com. if you look at the bios, thomas, you'll see that they put a lot of emphasis on listening and interacting with clients. this is a skill you pick up in a communications or business class, not a class that is teaching something on photoshop you already know.


do you see what i'm trying to say overall?

[aveceva]

yer i kno what you mean, i think.

[Voetsjoeba]

That's a nice site he's got there :) It's good to see people of the same age as me creating beautiful things, it once again proves that 15 year olds aren't "too young to create great work". I wish I was as good as this guy in designing, he's obviously got the skills there :)

[Disco-Stu]

You've got that asian discipline man! Nothing can compete with that! Great site too. :D

[McGuffin]

You won the BBforum Site of the Week (http://www.billybussey.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=11381)

Congrats! :)

[aveceva]

yer i know!!! really happy :) i wish Billy had a logo i could put up :(

[minimalistik]

Thats a great achievement imo, coming from BillyBussey. A total of 6 awards already :)

[paddy.]

The slow fades for the transitions are sooooooooo stylish. Love the site, even if the white thing has been done before. I've got two of my own sites currently in production that contain loads of white. Different kinda style though and they aren't gonna turn out that good. Excellent work.

Us young'uns (Me, Voetsjoeba, Thomas and anyone else under 20) have gotta keep designing and pushing back boundaries. (I'm 16 btw)

[Disco-Stu]

I'm only 19.... (junior in college though)

[Insomniac]

18 here, but I suck :P

[aveceva]

Us young'uns (Me, Voetsjoeba, Thomas and anyone else under 20) have gotta keep designing and pushing back boundaries. (I'm 16 btw)

we sure do!! :)

[McGuffin]

Whoa, you're 3 days older than me :)

[Jeff Wheeler]

I'm thirteen, I'm beating you all :P, but then again, you're way ahead of me :)

[Insomniac]

Thomas, where does the music on your website come from? It's pretty chilled out ;)

[byron 2]

Any of you aussies got a spare passport I could buy?

Want to go surfing again

[aveceva]

@ insomnic, my music was found randomly at flashkit :P

@ byron 2, think ill just head off to the beach later...and....surf.... :P