Neil CicieregaInterview
Animator, musician, web artist
Adapted from Neil Cicierega's interview on Uses This, published 7 October 2015. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My computer is a PC with an Intel Core i7 920 2.66G, 12GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA Quadro K2000 graphics card.
My main monitor is a 23-inch Samsung SyncMaster.
For the sound card, I have an M-Audio Delta 1010lt, which has all its inputs and outputs hanging out the back of the PC like spaghetti.
For recording MIDI, I have a M-Audio Axiom 61 key controller.
I also have a Behringer AMP800 on my desktop to quickly patch audio output between the two stations.
(And the Win-P key to switch screens quickly.) For a laptop I have a 15-inch Toshiba.
My camera is a Canon EOS 7D.
I have a wall with a green screen pinned up.
When I'm filming myself, I attach a Lilliput 7-inch LCD monitor and flip it forwards.
I carry Moleskine reporter-style notebooks, which are nicer when you're left-handed, and a Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
I share an Epson R2000 printer with my wife, who's a comic book artist, and we both make large art prints to sell at conventions and the like.
Communication
Browser
I browse with many tabs open in Chrome, and usually have an Incognito window open as a scratchpad for incessant Googling whims.
Design
For video and graphics, I'm still on Adobe Creative Suite 5.
A lot of my video projects rely heavily on After Effects.
Media
I make my music in Cakewalk Sonar X3 Producer.
Oh, Celemony's Melodyne pitch correction, maybe.
Adobe Audition for mastering and various audio manipulations.
Storage
I make system backups with Acronis True Image.