Nate's Art

More Music on The Way

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:18:00 +0000

Here's a page with preview song from my new album.
I've updated the music player because a few people were having trouble getting it to work.

Music Player

Cheers!
Nate

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:18:00 +0000

Hey, all. Here's a few updates of what I'm working on!

First, a few caricatures for my... caricature... class.

Also, my senior film lead character is now fully rigged, next step is to apply a similar setup to the girl in the film.

Cheers!
Nate

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:49:00 +0000

I think I say this every time I wait too long to post something, but I am really inconsistent at uploading work. Hahah...

Anywho, here's news.

1. Back at SCAD! My classes this quarter are awesome. If I remember and get around to it, I'll put samples of my work from them up here. (Caricature work, 2D VisFx animation, and eventually a new website design).

2. Project London. It is going SO well. We should be done with all the Visual Effects in a few more weeks, then there's viral marketing and whatnot and then IT'S GO TIME. Visit the site. Look around. Do it.

3. I have scrapped my original concept for my Senior film for SCAD. I have to have the entire thing done at the end of next quarter. Wish me luck.

Oh, and here's the character designs for my new film:

Cheers!

Nate

An Update! Wow!

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:21:00 +0000

SOOOOOO I should have updated this way sooner, because my iTunes album has been live for over a week now! If you search "Nathan H Taylor" on iTunes you should find my album... make sure you don't forget my middle initial or you'll get a bunch of random results. Now, the album is only 3 songs long but if enough people buy it I'll be able to afford to post a larger one!
Oh, and if you don't use iTunes you can find the same album on Amazon as well. :D

Also, here's a quick character turnaround of another model for Sean's film, working title "EXILE."

Quicktime Version Here

Maybe the next update I post won't take me a month to get around to. Heheh

Cheers!
Nate

PS. If you haven't gone to http://projectlondon.net yet, go there now! We've been doing cool stuff and you can see some samples of our work on that site. Project London is an Indie Scifi film I'm on the VFX team for.

For the heck of it

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:42:00 +0000

I made this poster for Sean's film because I felt like it.

Two things to note:

1. That may not actually be the title, I just thought it sounded cool.

2. You'll probably want to click on the image so you can see it full-size.

I was experimenting with style, and this image happened. I'm posting it because I like it. Oh, and it's a demonstration of the rig for the robot... even though it's not moving. Anyhow, the robot model/rig etc. is completely finished and ready for animation. Now onto other elements!

(The robot is the only thing in the image that's actually 3D so far. I did everything else in Photoshop.)

Sean's website is here if you wanna see his demo reel: http://seanfarbolin.com/

Lemme know what you think!

-Nate

More Conceptsy Stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:09:00 +0000

Here's a quick turnaround animation of a 3D mockup I did for Sean's film. This probably isn't the final model or the final look, but we're playing around with visual styles to see what would look cool with a very contrasty graphic style.

(MOV, H.264 compression, ~2.4mb)

I'll keep posting updates and tests for this project over the next few months. Even if we never use this model, I'm still gonna rig and animate it... because I think it's cool ;)

YUSS
-Nate

Sketches n' School n' Stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:45:00 +0000

Hey, everyone! I'm back at SCAD for my last year of college (though I'm still trying to wrap my head around that fact).

Should be a great year, I already like my classes this quarter and I have great ambitions for... everything, actually.

Example: I'm working on a bunch of school-related projects right now. One such project is my friend Sean Farbolin's senior film. I'm helping him with the style of the film, and ultimately will probably be modeling, rigging, and helping composite the 3D pieces of it as well. Here's a few designs we've come up with for this sort of "dystopian patrol officer" concept we're trying to figure out:

-early designs

-designs we kinda like

-one of my favorites

-the design on the lower right is closest to what we'll probably go with thus far.

Also, here's a few quick caricatures I've done of my roommates Matt and Sagan (in that order), just trying to really push my exaggerations:

...oh, and here's a creepy drawing I did, and a caricature Sagan Lacy did of me this past summer for fun...

-by Sagan Lacy

That's it for now! I'll post more stuff as I make it. :D

Cheers!

-Nate

Web Design

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:52:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:02:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:37:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:04:00 +0000

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.

Allrightythen

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:26:00 +0000

It's been a little while since my last post, so here's a quick update on the art life.

Finals.
What are finals?
Well, here's a few options:

a) trying to kick my butt
b) failing at kicking my butt
c) stressful
d) called "Finals" because they refer to the end. Of everything. Ever. In that regard they are like death.
e) death.
f) all of the above.

As you've probably guessed, the correct answer was (f). Have a piece of candy for participating, even if you guessed incorrectly. But sleep uneasily in the knowledge that your piece of candy is smaller than the pieces of candy the people who guessed correctly got.
...As you've probably also guessed, I haven't gotten very much sleep recently.

So!
Here's a random art for the day (it's an update of a previous post, and incidentally a final for one of my classes too):

CG Stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:50:00 +0000

I suppose it's important to note that I am primarily a CG artist, though I will be posting doodles and whatnot on this site off and on. I'd be more than willing to share my techniques with anyone who wants to know how I've done anything I've posted.

That said, here's a bit more about me:

I'm Nate Taylor, born in Michigan in 1988. I've lived most of my life in Wisconsin, but currently reside in Georgia, where I attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It's pretty great.
Favorite color: orange
Favorite food: watermelon
Favorite movies: The Iron Giant, Mirrormask, The Incredibles, Wallace and Gromit

My artwork:
I got started by watching the original Wallace and Gromit short films when I was about 9 or 10. At 11, I picked up my family's direct-to-VHS camera and started making silly films that I later called The What Show, a compilation or shorts less than 10 minutes apiece that really had no point but were mildly humorous, if only because they were so random. By 13, I'd started animating using a LEGO animation set I'd bought with what was basically my life savings up to that point. I know, pretty lame. At 16, my parents bought me Animation:Master, and thus I became interested in 3D computer animation. Sophomore and Junior year in high school, I also dabbled in classical 2D animation using paper and pencil.
Now I am a sophomore in college, majoring in Animation and minoring in Visual Effects. My 3D software of choice is Blender, which I was introduced to by Colin Levy (peerlessproductions.com) as a Freshman. I also use Maya, but I haven't gotten used to it entirely yet, so it'll be a while before I change my mind. Not to mention Blender is free, and very powerful.

That's all for now, so I'll leave you with a few more pieces of artwork-- both are 3D Maya scenes; the first is finished, the second a WIP, the final version of which i'll post soon, hopefully.

First post

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:29:00 +0000

Well I'm pretty new to blogging, so I should let you all (meaning anyone at this site) know that I'm probably not going to be updating daily. In fact, I can practically guarantee that.

However, I can also tell you that any time I either:
a) have a new piece of art to post
or
b) feel like rambling about something that I think is ramble-worthy

...then I will certainly update.

For now, I'll leave you all with a random piece of art that I'll find somewhere on my computer here...

Ok, so This is my roommate and I.
Um... that's basically all there is to this piece.

Except to say that I did it in Photoshop a few months ago.