Web Design

SOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo

I've decided to update my website design. If you're reading this, you've probably noticed that. If not, you're at the boring part of my site because I never update this stupid blog. Go to:

http://nathanhtaylor.com

...or else.

Anyhow, I thought the old design was inefficient and boring. So I'm redoing the layout and adding a lovely antique/Victorian theme. Because I can. (soo... much... photoshop...)

Turns out CSS is easy to pick back up. However, it'd be nice if I hadn't forgotten it in the first place.

So far, only the "Home" and "Animation" links work in the Nav bar to the right... but I'll probably get the rest working in the next few days.

Yes, also: while you're here... go elsewhere. Specifically, to http://www.projectlondon.net/, because we're getting some cool stuff posted from our progress on the film! Woo, final sequences! Which... take time! And uh, lots of... energy that... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Also! I'm a starving artist. So if you're interested in buying some awesome merchandise from Project London... go HERE so I get a referral! Do it. Please?

Meaaaantime, here's an awesome sketch Joe Bluhm did of me at Comic-Con this year:



...AND THAT'S IT!

Cheers, folks!
Nate

So I was in Michigan for the past week (May 10-17) at the Kalamazoo Animation Fesitval, which was great fun. Our team made a 30-second PSA on the theme "Innovative Approaches to 21st-Century Teaching" in 4 days, and it turned out quite well! We took second place overall (which is cool because the judges actually had to make a second place for us, as it had never been announced in the past). I was the team tech guy; I did the rigging, psot effects (including particle work), most of the compositing and some editing, and pretty much had to troubleshoot all of the problems my other team members had. All in all, it was a great experience.

AAAaaaannnddd Here's the film:

Kafi 2009 Film: Connect from Alexander Snow on Vimeo.

Stuff, Stuff, and More Stuff.

Well, it would appear that I've been pretty busy.

In fact, I have actually gotten some things done (despite my ability to be busy without being productive).

There's a couple of examples at the end of this post. One is a robot I made for Project London (which is the film I'm currently working on as a VFX artist - blog/update site here). The other is a digital caricature I did of Bruce Lee... because I felt like it. If you can't tell which picture is which, I'll be very surprised.

Anyhow, I'm going to go be counterproductively busy now.
Cheers!

Nate

Wow

So apparently I get sidetracked pretty easily - I keep not updating this blog. At all.

BUT! Here is an update!

I've recently been doing some caricatures in my spare time, because I've started to realize how much fun they are.
I'm still basically a beginner, but here's a few of the ones I've done:

Sean William Scott
Matthew Broderick
Myself

I've done some others, but they're not particularly identifiable. I'll post more as I do them.

In other news, I recently did a digital painting I'm pretty proud of: you can see it here if you want to comment on it, but here's what it looks like:




















In still other news, I've been playing around with After Effects and watching the (free) tutorials at Videocopilot.net, which are AWESOME. Definitely check that website out.
Here's an example of something I made in After Effects: Click Me
(note: That's kind of a big file, but it's worth it. Also: turn your speakers on. It's better with sound.)


I'll post more updates as I make more stuff!
Nate Taylor, out.