Lady and the Reaper

"Lady and the Reaper"

This short was very well done, bringing a gorgeous 2D style to 3D. It's incredibly designed and just keeps reminding me of what 3D can be when the technical side is overcome and the animation can shine brightly and clearly through it all.

LADY AND THE REAPER LINK

LATEST REEL UP!

http://www.nicklogic.com/demoreel.html

I was a week late as to when I wanted it up, but enjoy now! This is my latest work as of December 2009. Anything afterwards I am still waiting to have released from NDA (aired on TV or web with permission of client). Thanks again for all the support and I'm going to keep going strong into 2010!

Great projects going on at 1st Ave Machine as well as many other great places I'm looking into for Mid-March and on.

Rock on!

Cheers.

Effort

I'll add a photo later, but I wanted to share an understanding.

There are two people. They both want a job that is about to hire two people. They both are awarded the job.

First person gets jobs fairly often. He works 8 hours a day, with an hour lunch, and never stays late. He will not be taken advantage of. He's seen as a a professional.

Second person doesn't get jobs very often, so he is excited about this opportunity. He stays 10 hours minimum, late when they need him, eats lunch while working, taking no more than 10 minutes to acquire the food. He feels he is helping out the project, that he can be relied on, and wants to show his best.


In this field, the second person will be seen as getting taken advantage of. He will also be seen as someone who doesn't understand how the freelance field works. This is actually fairly true. Working hours way over the 8 hours is something that should not be necessary with good production, but honestly, sometimes the unexpected occurs and there's not much that can be done about it except to drudge through it. The first person will see this as a hassle and most likely decide to do what he needs done and leave.

When the second person is presented this, he will stay, not to show off, but because he rarely gets work. He also realizes the freelance pays more than his usual and to him, doing 8 hours seems way too little for the pay he's receiving daily. Being use to such low pays in the past, he feels he needs to do his absolute hardest work to even come close to earning it.

The First person is use to this, could care less, and takes it for granted.


My question: When does the second person become the first person? After alot of work and earned money? And does that change the person from amateur to professional? Or from grateful to unappreciative.

It's interesting to me, 'tis all. In this current state of times, the fortunate should earn their fortunate living, not question it and belittle it as common. A little elbow grease goes a long way. Like old times.

Earn your keep. It feels more rewarding.

The early process of "Best If Used By"

So here is the early process of "Best if Used By", a short written and directed by me and done with some very talented people, Ryan Pate, Morgan Griffiths, Dayv Frost, and newly on board, Tyler Garrison. We are currently at the modeling, rigging, and texturing stages. I'm excited to see the texture and style work that Tyler can bring our project and really make it pop into something unique.




Early on, I could see how the sketches of mine were not matching the given modeling by Ryan. This is mainly due to the creative process and seeing what we can do with our collective ideas. I drew up a few changes.



Though a good and interesting caveman style, I was still not getting the silhouette I wanted. We met up and knocked it out in the next set.

This is our most current model, without the refined connections in the neck. It had the style of my sketch and gave off the desired "easter island" head appearance I liked about the sketch.

More in the next update: Bedroom and Kitchen environments, along with rigging steps.