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....


N3_
Neil.watson@n33il.com