A short verbal description of us... What we've done, and what's to be done!

Who are Accodeum?

Accodeum are Oktay Poçan, Mehmet Cihan Poçan and Nehar Poçan. We provide several services, including Media Production, Graphics Design, Print works and Programming... An uncomplete list can be found on left. Uncomplete as it's due to change everyday, as we like challenges, and we like to challange too. Who are we? We are a small group of computer enthusiasts. We all play guitar, we all like neoclassical music, and we enjoy playing video games. Browse through our gallery and see what've done, and what we are doing currently.

Short History

Well, in fact, the story begun 15 years ago, in 1991. It all started with an Amiga 500 and 68k coding. We were not just coding but also writing music with trackers, rendering with Real3D and Imagine, and drawing graphics with Deluxe Paint.

Things have changed a lot. After a decade with Amiga we have to confront the consequences of bankrupt of Commodore. Finally we've lost our toy and our mate.

Early experiences with PC platform were dissapointing. Windows never seemed to be a friend, but a hostile. Even the promising speeds of PC's couldn't convince us to love them.

After years in exile, we have found GNU; the free software philosophy was exciting, even charming... Debian GNU/Linux became our beloved OS.

The rise of the Free Software Community has been a new hope for us. We found freedom, stability, reliability and beauty after years. But, sure there are things to change...

Unfortunately, there are certain industry standards and things are changing slowly. We are still have to use some certain programs which are only available on Windows platform. Clients are claiming certain file types, which are not available on Free Software operating systems. And several programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier, Discreet 3dsmax, Steinberg Cubase and Propellerhead Reason are not available in our beloved operating systems. Alternatives like GIMP, Blender, Audacity, MuSe and Rosegarden are promising.

The Roots

All of us have a different background; Oktay's journey has begun with electronics as a childhood hobby, soon he discovered the computing world. In the year of 1990 he got his first computer; an Amiga 500... After a short while he joined a local Amiga group, Aminox. He contributed Aminox projects with his graphics and music. Deluxe Paint and DSS tracker were his favorite tools. After joining Aminox, he improved his coding skills by help of Mustafa Binatlı and Barkın İlhan, group members of Aminox, whom they will be founding a new Amiga scene group "Orbital". Serdar Binatli, brother to Mustafa, joined Orbital as graphics artist. In a short time they've made real progress and Bart Coelus from Belgium joined them. With members from Poland, England, Netherlands and Sweden, Orbital became a big family.

In these year's Oktay made some 3D animations with Real3D for local TV stations, this was his first commercial work and appreciated as the very first 3D animation in his city, Konya. After high school he left Konya, and went to Denizli with Mustafa. Last years of high school, spending to much time to be accepted to university, then strugling in a new city weakened his bonds to Amiga Scene. He worked as graphics artist and 3D animator at a local TV station in Denizli. These years he learned a lot on broadcast design and CG but his coding abilities were fading out. He improved his 3D modelling and rendering skills with Autodesk 3D Studio release 4. After 2 years in Denizli, he decided to move to Ankara, the capital of Turkey.

In Ankara he met Barkın again, who introduced GNU/Linux to him. He was impressed to much, but he had conflicts again whether he will be an IT specialist or draw his route to academic career on biology. After a few years he mastered web design, PHP, Visual Basic and SQL. He programmed several database applications for automotive industry to libraries. In the year of 2004 he created an online shopping system for a book store. In 2004 he also shot a documentary. He improved his skills on photography, offline editing, digital compositing and editing. In Summer 2004 Mehmet Cihan joined him.

Mehmet Cihan's talent on graphics made them greater. He started painting when he was 5 years old, he kept on drawing, and when he was 12 he contributed to local magazines with his art. Combining his abilities on computing and fine arts, he mastered several painting, and 3D design programs. He made over 60 original book and magazine covers, created digital media for several projects and web sites. He contributed to a documentary shot by Oktay, as graphics artist. He is currently the lead graphics artist of Accodeum group.

Nehar also joined Accodeum in 2004 as computer hardware consultant. He worked for Alamaç Computers in Konya as a hardware specialist. He contributed to several network projects, including Hilton Konya, Deniz Bank, Akbank, Coca Cola Konya, Pakpen etc... Now he is improving his skills on programming.