Mentors
The mentors at The Gathering are skilled creative people who are available to help you within their fields of expertise. You can find mentors in the fields of programming, graphics and music production in the Creative Lounge every day.
The mentors can give you assistance on your own level, whether you are a beginner or already quite skilled yourself. Talking to the mentors can be a nice way to get introduced to the creative scene at The Gathering.
How to get help from a Mentor
There are a number of ways you can get in touch with the mentors:
- Visit the Creative Lounge while at The Gathering. Contact the Creative Infodesk and explain what you want help with. The Creativia crew will help you get in contact with a mentor. If a suitable mentor is not available at the exact time you visit the lounge, they will get back to you whenever one gets available.
- Mentors are looking for people to help, each day from 14:00 to 16:00 in The Creative Lounge
- Ask a question in The Gathering's creative forums. Mentors check this forum regularly to answer questions.
- Send an email directly to a mentor
- Join #tg-creativia on EFnet and ask!
If you have any questions regarding the mentor arrangement, please contact demo@gathering.org
How does one become a mentor?
The Creativia crew chooses the mentors from the most prominent participants from the creative scene at TG. If you want to be a mentor, send an application to demo@gathering.org explaining your skills and how enthusiastic you are about teaching others. Each mentor gets a free Creative Ticket to The Gathering in exchange for helping out our newcomers.
The mentors
Graphics
Anne Marte Markussen aka carni
Age: 24
Group: None
Occupation: Student, Virtual art and design, HiHm
Field of expertise: Photoshop, Digital Paiting, 3DS Max, After Effects, Concept Art, Illustrsjon
Email: anne.marte.m[a]gmail.com
Kim A. Strandli aka Strunt
Age: 20
Group: None
Occupation: Student
Field of expertise: 3ds Max (Zbrush)
Email: kimstrandli[a]gmail.com
Xianghe Kong aka offwhite
Age: 27
Group: None
Occupation: Student
Field of expertise: Digital drawing, Photoshop, MsPaint/pixelart, algorithms and general programming (Sculpting, Java, optimization and math)
Email: offwhite_griserosa[a]hotmail.com
Tina Alfredsen aka Griffsnuff
Age: 23
Group: None
Occupation: Concept artist, Digital 2D artist
Field of expertise: Photoshop, Digital painting/concepts
Email: grypoon[a]hotmail.com
Bjørnar Frøyse aka Volant
Age: 23
Group: Krillbite
Occupation: 3D-artist
Field of expertise: Blender, Zbrush, modelling for games (Technical Photoshop, After Effects, Unity 3D)
Email: bjornar.froyse[a]Krillbite.com
Kim Kverneland aka Kim
Age: 20
Group: None
Occupation: Sales personnel Japan Foto
Field of expertise: Composition, Photoshop, Photography
Email: kim[a]kverneland.me
Video
Lasse Selvli aka Basse
Age: 23
Group: None
Occupation: D.I.T, B-Photo, Camera assistant, Light assistant.
Field of expertise: Digital workflow from recording to post production, Camera Techniques with Red and Alexa.
Email: Lasse[a]selvli.com
Programming
Jake Taylor aka Ferris
Age: 21
Group: Youth Uprising, Outracks, Gravity
Occupation: Real-Time Graphics Engineer, Outracks Technologies AS
Field of expertise: C/C++, C#, OpenGL, Audio Programming, Sizecoding, Asm (Music, Reaper, Ableton Live)
Email: jake[a]outracks.com
Jo Emil Holen aka JoMs
Age: 20
Group: Indigo
Occupation: IT Technician, Evry
Field of expertise: C#, XNA, JavaScript, PHP, Photoshop (C, Perl, Lua, 3Ds Max, Webdesign)
Email: jo.emil[a]skriveleif.com
Music
Magnus Sørlie aka Kaktusen
Age: 30
Group: PlayPsyCo
Occupation: Studio producer, Artist and DJ
Field of expertise: Sound design, composition, mix, mastering, DJ'ing
Email: miu[a]miu-music.vom
Marius Berthelsen aka Chimeric
Age: 19
Group: None
Occupation: Producer under the alias 'Chimeric', helper at Elexia
Field of expertise: Music and sound design, DJ'ing, composition (PR)
Email: contact[a]itschimeric.com