Under Construction

Going to be posting a new splash page soon to make room for the new site update. Big changes. :)

New Site Design

Coming up with a new site design. Basically I'm getting rid of the Dreams.in.tech.nicolr design, because for one thing I have recieved much positive feedback. Little too busy I think was what came up usually. Plus I actually already have my LLC in the name of Rough Edit Productions, so I needed to do this anyway. So here is a new design. I am thinking of using this same treatment in my new demo reel as well. I have alot of new content planned to create for reel as well. Need some more commercial stuff to living it up. What do you guys think?

A Day with the Cats

Check this out. This is one of Rich's new pieces he made. He got the inspiration for it from an artist named Mihai Popa. This artist did a piece on an elephant racing grayhound dogs. Pretty awesome. Well Rich decided he wanted to do a piece like that but with big cats of the world. Pretty awesome. Have a look.

It's inspired me to do a new Motion Graphics piece along the same lines. I'm gonna keep it secret until its finished though. ; )

prospect

"My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny." ~ Elaine Maxwell

"In a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the timeline that has yet to occur, i.e. the place in space-time where lie all events that still have not occurred. In this sense the future is opposed to the past (the set of moments and events that have already occurred) and the present (the set of events that are occurring now)." ~ Wikipedia.org

Always Updating

Click on the images above to go to my Design, Video, or Wallpaper Art blogs.

More soon.

Mamzers Dream

I posted some new photo composites to my flickr page. Check it out and leave comments please. Helps me to know where to improve. ; )

New Wallpaper Plans

I went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science over the weekend. I went there to see the space odyssey exhibit and planetarium. It was a lot of fun. I have always been so fascinated by space and NASA. Well it gave me the idea for what I am going to do for my next wallpaper. This one I am going to be spending a lot of time on so it may take me a couple days. I am going to actually try and do some hardcore painting in it as. I'll have more on this soon. : )

Here is also a video I found on Google video about the moon landing. So awesome. : )

Click the Google Video button to see the video. : )

Heart and Spirit

This one is more like a beginning of an idea. I wouldn't really consider this one done at all. I just liked the way it started to turn out. It will most likely become something much more complicated. I just had somewhat of an idea in my head and I wanted to get it started. More on this one soon. ; )

Click on the image above to see the latest wallpaper i was inspired to do.

Tutorials 2.0

Just found this awesome user submitted tutorials site for design. Pretty awesome if your into that. : ) the main description for the site is this:

What's Tutorials 2.0?

Tutorials2.0 provides 2.0 tools that gets you right to the content through easy-to-share RSS, social tools, blogging & email.

Why submit on Tutorials 2.0?

Having good tutorials on the front page matters to you. We give all credits to you and we even allow outside linking as long as you care about the quality of the content.

Life in Travel

Just to let everybody know. I helped my moms friend cheryl make a blog for herself this weekend. You shoul dgo over to her blog and give a coment or two. : )

Whostar

Ryan decided to jump on the band wagon and make himself his own blog through blogger. I added a link to his blog in my Family and Friends Blog Links on the right. Check Ryan's blog for updates. He just started it today so he may not have it up til later. : )

http://whostar.blogspot.com/

Beauty

"Beauty is a quality of a person, object, place, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, affirmation, meaning, or goodness. The subjective experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature. This leads to a psychological state of attraction and positive emotions." ~ Wikipedia.org


Click on the picture at the top of the post and you can see the latest Wallpaper I got inspired to do.

Design Blog

I decided to add another blog called design.dreams.in.tech.nicolr . I am going to be doing a lot more design work now and I wanted a blog to post it in, so I will start adding it there. Check back frequently for updates. : )

Click on the image above to see some of the early designs for Jeff Ford's new website.

Adobe CS3 Icons

I wanted to blog this because it looks really cool. Adobe released the desings for the new icons that will be in CS3. They have been getting mixed reviews because of the simplicity, but I personally love them. I am all about clean simple designs and not trying to clutter a logo with over thinking. Here is a 3D flash rendering made by this person: http://theflashblog.com/?p=240 . Not sure what there name is cause I couldn't see it in thier blog.

Click the image to see the flash presentation.

Here is how the came up with the color scheme. They based the categories off the color wheel. Really thinking outside the box. : )

Here is the blog where they introduced the icons: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/ . This guy works at adobe. Some cool info on the inner workings of the adobe products. He also gave some info that they are going to release the production studio on Mac and Windows. That is a huge milestone since Mac and Adobe have been having an issuse in that resepect concerning video editing. Mainly its been because of the competition from Final Cut Studio.

Here is how the came up with the color scheme. They based the categories off the color wheel. Really thinking outside the box. : )

Travel

"Travel is the transport of people on a trip/journey or the process or time involved in a person or object moving from one location to another. The word originates from the Middle English word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the French word travailler ("travail")."
~ Wikipedia.org

Click on the picture at the top of the post and you can see the latest Wallpaper I got inspired to do.

Click the image above to see the route for my 2007 Road Trip in Google Maps.

Jack

I just had to blog this. Rich Nortnik, a designer I work with did this piece for a competition. He has been doing alot of mentoring for me while I have been here at Shaw, and I really believe its helped me to further myself as an artist by learning from him. Rich recently sold me his WACOM tablet so I could start learning how to use that in my work as well. It enables you to draw with photoshop. Alot of designers use it and its definitely something I need to get into. Rich's work has really influenced me as well. If you look at alot of my wallpaper pieces I have been doing, you can see where I have tried to use some of the techniques he's shown me. His work is amazing and I wanted to share it. : )