About Zeus Perez ·
Dec 30, 2006
hese are my objectives in the grander scheme of life.
Be passionate about my interactive, advertising, and creative work while fulfilling my desire of delivering the best interactive experience possible. My graphics education is from International Fine Arts College in Downtown Miami, Florida where I received a degree in Commercial Art though studies concentrated towards Graphic & Functional Design, but with style. I went to school back in era 1991, right as computers started to migrate over to Desktop Publishing. I learned how to mask photography by hand using Rubilith, write my own fonts and create posters on drawing boards in a room packed with probably the best artists I had ever seen. My studies at the college included airbrushing, fine drawing, publishing, advertising, graphic design, marketing, illustration, photography, animation, business law, business management, and typography. Typography and I have quite an extensive love affair nowadays.
Computer Graphics, Era 1991
One day a computer class was added and I signed up for Adobe Illustrator 4 or 5.0 I believe and Specular Infini-D, a 3D program. The same teacher taught both classes and he made it easy to learn how to spline items, create Bézier curves, correctly transform paths, and how to control camera angles in 3D in regards to kinetics, speed, camera apertures and more. Since I had learned about photography in other classes, the 3D was similar to adding a new arm to my body. Illustration using software after learning everything by hand was fun, too much fun to say the least. Digital art seduced me.
Photoshopping
I found a job as a colorist for the comic Double Impact down in Miami and I’m pretty sure it was for this comic cover 
but I didn’t get the job, nor do I think that’s my work, could be, but I doubt it. Anyways, they wanted a Photoshop artist. I had no idea what Photoshop was other than it was related to Adobe. I traveled back to school, and mind me, I took traditional airbrushing classes and knew about masking. I walked into a lab and 4 hours later left learning Photoshop 3.0. Someone said to me in class, “Wow you really control that airbrush tool well.” Yes, this is because I actually airbrushed once upon a time.
So anyways, my skillsets range from traditional hand drawing to 3D animation, though my passion resides with InDesign, Illustrator and Flash as hands down the best vector tools for web design, illustration and logotypes. I’ve provided myriads of interactive media content and even dabbled in video production while at a bunch of different entertainment and business corporations. I’m also quite comfortable working in the following programs on either PC’s or Apple platforms: 3D Studio Max, Adobe Acrobat (PDF creation), Adobe After-Effects, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Adobe Premiere, DHTML, FrontPage, FTP, Hand coded HTML, Lightwave 7, Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash CS3 or whatever it’s called now, Microsoft Office including Access and superb PowerPoint , Presentations, QuarkXPress 6.0 or something, Quicktime, RealProducer, Specular Infini-D, Swift 3-D, Web Development (asp, php, dhtml, javascript, css, sml, wml, xml, fml, rrl, rss, social networking, tagging, buzzwords, buzz sentences too and now user interaction and functional design application for delivering a variety of user created media-rich-content. Say that three times fast…)
Portfolio?
Now with that said, back in 2004 or so I created a portfolio website which I haven’t yet updated but you can feel free to visit it at portfolio site. Everything on that site, including code, development, design and pretty much all the client artwork on that site were designed and probably developed by myself. Many of the slogans may have also been written by me as well.
Inspiration
What inspires me the most is music, movies and cars like the Tesla or the Prius, people that think organically and creatively that don’t have whirlwinds of attitude but know they are elite guru’s, problem solvers, taking walks or just going for a drive outside fills me with inspiration because in the end, we are all just part of this world. Everything that is here now, came from something that was living and evolved to where you are now. The only difference is they didn’t know you’d be standing right there.
Future Web
People like to talk about Web 2.0, but I like to think in terms of Web 5.0, maybe in the year 2080. Though all of the latest designs and technologies are pretty much the same as Web 1.0 using Netscape, Perl, Javascript, Yahoo! or AIM. Things tend to come back around and people all get mystified but it’s not all too new, it’s just renditions of information packaged a bit differently. We’re back to using huge graphics on webpages and animating whatever we can thinking it will possess people to click something.
— Zeus ::)
