Animals

Couple more recent photos.

Crest

Havn't posted in a while.. heres a quick one-

Took a couple hours to make this, I still want to change the text on the bottom and fix some lines but. Its sorta complete. Aside from that, I have a bunch of half started pieces that I want to post eventually.. I just need to find some time to work on my own stuff rather then school and work..

Neeil.

Updates-

Hey,

I havn't been able to update recently due to work and getting ready to move, however I have been working on some new vector art and trying out some new things so hopefully I'll get something up soon when I'm unpacked and settled into my new place.

Project Space (aka the demo) is also on hold for the time being, I have one level finished with music and everything however when I started composing music I got fairly distracted and started trying to learn more about the software I was using resulting in a lack of time to work on the game itself. I'm aiming at imitating early Famicom music by writing midi tracks then converting the tracks through another piece of software which mirrors the sound range somewhat closely.

Aside from that, I recently received in the mail a copy of a CD I designed (a couple of entries back) so I'll post some photos of that as well when I unpack and find them again.


Cheers,

N33il

in the loop

I took down the current n33il.com and replaced it with a temp site (well a splash page...basically)
regardless, I've got some big things planned for the launch of the new site. Although I do not think my new design will be up for a couple weeks it'll be awesome to say the least. The "demo" may also be delayed to launch simultaneously with the site. It's currently in a early prototype stage but its turning out pretty good so far. I'm working on boss logic and pretty much just making it look good. The demo might be only a level or two while I think the full game will be 5-10. Although, in terms of levels and the structure of levels themselves I'm still making a couple design choices of how exactly each "level" will play out (ie point a to point b or something non linear ).

Other then that I've been working with a couple clients ranging from websites to business cards so I've been keeping busy the past couple weeks explaining my lack of updates in the past week or two.


Cheers.

Progress

The photograph above is from a photoshoot with an artist I shotwhile working at Euphonic Sound. The weather conditions were fairly poor as it was consistently raining all day but it was a pretty good day, while I was finishing up editing the set back at the studio I messed around with some of the colors pretty heavily on a few of the shots I liked (the above is an example).

The 'game' has been shaping up nicely. I fixed a bunch of AI & Hit detection issues, added game-over menus and just overall cleaned it up a bit more. I'm slowly leaning towards making it into a facebook app....just for the heck of it


Cheers
Neil-

Rainy Day

Just a little update today,

I just wanted to update on whats been going on lately with my work and updates to the blog/site. I recently had a few client jobs to take on so those had to take priority over personal projects for a little while however, I had the chance to assist the filming of a live event and dabble in a bit of online work once again.

on a side note- I have started reviving an old project. I mentioned in a previous entry I was going to dig up some old flash work...and I did but, I decided to completely rebuild one project in particular that was never quite finished or given enough time or effort. I'm not promising anything too spectacular but it will be a short game hopefully with a demo ready to post in a month or so-
The project is still in a pretty simple state & I`d post more details but I'd like this one to be a bit of a surprise

Parallax & Looking Back

I made this a little while ago and figured I would post it here as well,
but another parallax effect created in after effects enjoy-



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Also new on my channel is a old PSA I made for a grade 10 comm-tech course at my high school.. needless to say I didn't take it very seriously at the time but It's kind of funny to watch now.

I also found some other old work from the class which needless to say is pretty bad, but funny. There was a set of old business cards for a fake paintball company, a fake movie poster featuring carrot top, a business man and some random kid. Another random half-baked "horror" movie and this..



I don't even know whats going on here or what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure I had to green-screen something (I notice a bit of a green bleed around me) as well as X-number of layers to make a post card of our own imagination..

I might try to find some of my old flash work from when I had next to no knowledge of how flash works or what I was able to do- I recall it being pretty awful to say the least but its kind of interesting to see what I attempted in the past regardless of quality.


Aside from that insight into my juvenile work, I have begun researching & learning bits and pieces of php. Today I created a simple user log-in forum and last night attempted to learn about loops and timestamps (with some minor success) which is working towards something I plan to design in the future. Finally, research has started on the new n33il.com layout, still a very early stage of development but its long overdue and on the way..


N3

Upon Our Wonders

CD layout for a client, (low res for web, originally all vectored)

edit: since time of post this version has been altered text has been adjusted, company logos have been added, etc- I'll repost shortly

CBA

Coming Soon....


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Neil.watson@n33il.com

Singles -

Since the last update I've been quite busy - I've started working full time again water gardening as well as two part time jobs designing some stuff. Anyways I'm finally updating with some singles artwork I made for a client. I'll also post the CD artwork after its been sent to print but Its been finished for a while now. Lastly I'll be posting some photos from a couple photoshoots I did during my time at Euphonic Sound but thats next - Finally. here is some new artwork I've been working on - enjoy.

V_01
V_02



N3_ Lots more to come.

Vans - F4 Designs

ello,

I realized I never actually posted a link to my teams production blog. It is not exactly 100% everything we made, but its a pretty good collection of what my teams process and stages of production were. If I feel like its really missing something I helped design or anything along those lines i'll post it up but I think this gives a good idea of what was happening the past couple of weeks.

F4-Designs-DMA


So check that out and as usual enjoy.

Neil.

Neil.Watson@n33il.com


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(once again, some of the images used on the site are property of their respective ownersand are only being used for the purpose of this assignment with no credit being taken for the creation of them ie - shoe/clothing /skater photos)

vans mock site

The past couple weeks me and some friends have been working on a mock-vans site for class
check it out below

http://www.n33il.com/vans_site




I also have some videos to post soon along with new decal designs but for now enjoy the site

Decals

So.. after slacking a bit I'm posting a few of the 3ds decal designs (not to scale) I have a bunch more in the works but for now I've gotta focus on finishing up some stuff for work and school- but I'm planning on doing a sugarskull series and some more animals.

The vans site should also be posted up by by the end of next week, it's basically finished and just needs a bit of tweeking before its ready to go.

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Skins__

Well, here are four of the 10 designed skins. As inconsistent as they may be I feel strangely accomplished having this initially finished with minus online PR and revisions once I get my hands on a 3ds to adjust the camera sizes and overall designs and although this was only for school I think I'm going to continue designing skins for fun and obviously find a slightly better way of packaging them. What I have right now works but it just feels off. Staples suck (especially when not even and cutting text >_> ) and my method of bonding bags is less then fun....



Other then this, today I was at school for about 9 hours on my day off scripting and helping create assets for a vans mock up site with a friend. That project is also coming along and quickly shaping up. So I will probably post a link to that as well a week or two before the end of April. Finally, I've been working on a clients CD cover and spent some time last night vectoring out monkeys.. I have a few in process but I actually really like the one character. It almost reminds me of the old dinosaur character for the toyshop site I created in the past just...more awesome.

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Backgrounds

learned a new trick today- in reality pretty easy but cooooooool....

Other then that. the first series of 3ds skins are done but I still feel obligated to hold back on posting them- Just not quite happy yet


N3_

filming

Last week I had the chance to help with the production of a aspiring directors short film. While on set I assisted with the set up and direction for 2/3 days of filming. PJ Gioia's film is set to release in late April and a link will be posted following the launch. Below are a couple pics from Saturday nothing too fancy though.






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I'm just doing a quick update of some compilation covers I made during my first day of work at Euphonic Sound. All of which still require a backing cover which I'm waiting on copy for. However the basic design is finished and just requires touch-ups. I'm not quite happy with the hiphop/indie cover but its a work in progress. Other then that, I think I'm going to eat some dinner and go back to sleep, todays been way way to long and I woke up having chest pains in the morning so I've been asleep for the past 7 hours haha. Either way enjoy'




N3_

oh! the 3ds decals have made a bunch of progress however I'm holding off on posting those for another week or so but its coming along!

March News

Well..I've been really busy lately, explaining the lack of updates. However I do have a lot of stuff to be posted- some of which I'm just waiting on clearance to make sure I can post the projects. Anyways, since last month I am now employed and designing random goodness at a nice pace. Aside from work I'm nearly done my final semester at school and with that I have been working on designing a series of skins. I have a couple finished but I'm waiting on finishing at-least half of them before I post so be expecting something neat soon.

However. Enjoy the following videos -



The castle video is a lab from class created using still images to create a 3d parallax effect. There will be more of these posted soon (and non-lab videos at that!)

I was also going to post a fairly rushed 'how-to' video explaining the usefulness of document classes in flash (using flash builder to build files) however, blogger is not allowing me to display the video properly so... I will have to post that at a later date, or check it out on my Youtube channel directly! Just be warned, I didn't color correct this video or use screen caps ( I filmed the screen directly :( ) so, the quality is fairly bad.... however the point is kind of there still

Cheers!
N3____

(side note, Every entry seems to start by explaining why I'm slacking...maybe its become the style or something....)

MPC

Oi! For this update I've had the chance to work with the progressive rock band MPC and design some concept art for their upcoming album - but first some background:

MPC is a progressive rock band coming out of southren Ontario bringing with them a energetic live show. In the midst of releasing a new album complete with original tracks spanning various musical influences. This talented trio is set to revolutionize the music scene and just keeps getting better -



Check out MPC at:
www.reverbnation.com/thebandmpc

http://www.facebook.com/thebandmpc

I basically had two requests for the design:
1) The eye of horus was requested to be incorporated into the design in some form
2) Must be greyscalable

Resulting in this- ____
N3

Phi and shoes

Hey,
Todays post is just some of my work from last semester that I didn't get around posting for some reason or another. So I decided to post these three after a quick skim of content- Please note the dc logo and shoe was used for educational/display purposes and was never intended to be more then a mock ad. (photography by me though)

Eyes.

As I kind of figured the rate of my blog entries has slowed down again since school, meaning my personal projects are backseat for now until I finish some bigger things... for now another lab from class done in after effects -



Uh... incase that awesome one second clip doesn't make sense as the eye blinks, it also changes color from green-red. This also demonstrates some simple things to do with masks- I was going to post another lab involving braveheart and lightsabers but.... thats not for here

N3-

I've been out of town for a couple days away from my laptop however, Tonight I managed to fix almost all issues with the site. In other words.. my site is back up and running and I'm slightly hesitant to claim it but, I think that it is running smoothly cross browser- However that doesn't mean it is complete yet. I have posted the current version but I am also continuing adding content and updating some details and visuals until I feel somewhat happy with it so don't be too surprised if the current version gradually changes over the next couple weeks depending how busy I get with school -


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Neeil-
N33il.com

ps- felt like a noob when I realized the issues -_-;

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I posted this on the old URL but I figured I'd post it here as well. -

Basically, I first opened my blogger account using two e's in my user name then a couple of months later registered my domain name using two 3's insted eventually it occured to me that this might be confusing and then I noticed that blogger allows the user to transfer a blogs data, contacts, etc to another blog so before I continue on with inconsistencies... welcome to N33il.blogspot.com. aye, on another note I'm fairly confident that I will take down the recently posted N3 site and continue fixing issues although, strangely enough I tested it on my ipod today and nearly flawless. Anyways I made the above image for the old url just to redirect traffic here, just a very simple 10min project but none the less another update

Cheers'

N3___

n3

Once again, N33il.com has been updated,
Right now I'm having some issues with the button (nav works fine in chrome/FF but not IE, Content works in IE but not FF/C), well everything works but at times some of the buttons are sketchy either way, contents there, buttons link. bare with me for a bit while I mess around and fix this little issue- I'm guessing I'll be a couple days as I have class in the morning I'm going to get some rest and figure it out tomorrow!


Cheeers!

N3____

suprise.

By request, I made this for a friend haha.

and slightly updated sewer88 design.

N3___

newish again

soo, my updates have been kinda sparse lately however I have been working on completely redoing n33il.com and the current design in mind is about 80-90% done although I've already come up with another idea so.. as long as I keep on track the site should be done soon. Currently n33il.com basically just displays some random photography and doesnt really show any of my work on it (this blog has a good chunk of the recent stuff) but on the new site I've added a lot more content-
On another note, I'm starting class again on monday so I should be posting more random work as I go and with that I'll post some random doodles from this year.. mostly just from sitting on a bus or being bored at some point or another nothing fancy haha-

'1- business writing -


2- Humber3- Humber again haha 4 - bored with paints n3-