A Collection of Bits

I wanted to do a quick post to show everybody what I've been up to in a professional capacity for the last month or two. I've had some amount of leftover Pixelfab work flowing in, so here are a few stills from some clients:

This one's a style mock-up for an animation of a blown-apart view of an appliance. I think I'll render an animation out like this in full even if I don't end up doing it for work, just because it looks cool and it would be a good portfolio piece. Click it to see it embiggened.

This one's a (still of a) seamlessly-looping background video for an interactive Flash overlay.

And another animated background video, complete with lens flares and Star Trek Generations-esque energy ribbons. Take THAT one to the Nexus, Shatner!


And here are some panoramas I took by myself and with Karl. I know I'm switching up my already-confusing top-bottom image labeling system, but deal with it. Again, click on the images to see them in their full web-sized glory.

The originals are photomerges of huge DNG files, so each file is something around a gig a pop. I'll send them to you if you really want them.

I worked up a bunch of weird stuff like this too for a proposal:

And my favorite:

Oh, and I worked on some Particulates again for the first time in over a year. Just so you know. Let me move and get a job, and probably prepare five or so comics in advance as a bugger, and then we'll see about doing a pretty serious restart of the comic. In case you don't know about Particulates, it lives in a temporary hiatus here: http://www.particulatescomics.com/index.php?i=65
My goal is to use it as a my cool-down design project, which I'd do with a glass of wine and some nachos on cool summer nights after all of the main tasks of the day (work, animation projects, socializing) were done. Maybe one a week? That seems like a pretty low goal. We'll see. I'm not going to make any promises I can't keep.

Hell, yes I am. I'll start Particulates again after I move and it will be awesome, just like everything else I do in life. You're gonna love it.

"That's a piecrust promise. Easily made, easily broken." -Mary Poppins

Inspiration Doesn't Wear A Watch

I almost decided to wait until tomorrow to post this and just go to bed, especially since I have to get up at 5:30, but then I sat for another hour and some change and started a new design. So if I had time for that, I have time for this.

It's a short post tonight, but I wanted to throw the two designs I'm working on up here since I'm proud of my accomplishments today. I went to Amelie's this evening (incredible 24-hours bakery/coffee shop) and just sat and worked while some gentlemen played some haunting ambient music on their electric guitars behind me. I may go into a little bit of detail about the designs tomorrow if it seems like it would be worthwhile to my Having Slept A Bit brain.

First off, I got the terrible monster image to a point where I'm calling it done. Here!

Comments? Critiques? Suggestions? Keep 'em to yourself! But seriously though, keep them to yourself.

No, send them to me. I was only playing.

I started on this tonight too and I think it has some promise:

So now I will go to bed and read until I burn the coffee off. Goodnight.

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” -Vincent van Gogh

Just A Little More Horrific

I worked the image up some more with some eyes and eye stalks. More progress will likely be made on Sunday after I get back from Bonfirecon in Polk County with some of my greatest friends in the whole wide world. I'm also putting some effort into making a "view full size" button on my portfolio website so the really nice images, and maybe even videos, can be seen in their full hi-res glory. I actually coded most of it up yesterday. The portfolio site lives here, for those of you who don't know: http://chase.brokenjpeg.com

"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight." -H.P. Lovecraft