May update

Posted in Ideas, Work with tags , , on May 26, 2010 by tynation

Currently working on building a new computer. Once that is finished I shall amp up my search for contract work. A nice comfy new chair is also great when upgrading your workspace.

That video card is massive, at least two and a half times bigger than any card i’ve ever seen. I cant wait to get this thing up and running. I need my brother to help me with the wiring, and then some RAM and it’s ready to go.

Once I have my new computer running I’m going to do some creative revisions to my resume and try to put a little more polish into my demo reel. Finally I will have a computer that can handle doing that.

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Updated web site

Posted in Web on January 19, 2010 by tynation

I’ve been enjoying playing with CSS, the things that I can do with it compared to just html are awesome. Javascript is lots of fun to use too. Especially when it does what you want.

Anyway I’ve updated my website. I think it looks a bit cooler and more professional. It should take up less bandwidth, and when I need to add more to my gallery It’s set up to easily accommodate my needs.

That being said I continue to march on in the job search and freelance work.

I’m also going to be setting up a web comic for my site soon. It will be at comic.tynation.com. It will be a diary comic kind of comic based on my thoughts, my jokes, and some situations i’ve been in

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Happy New Year

Posted in Casual, Web on January 3, 2010 by tynation

I must thank my friends at the Food and Beverage Magazine for helping me getting this blog set up. Here’s their own blog http://www.fb101.com/. I find this  nifty and customizable, however, I can’t figure out how to upload a custom theme. This preset one suits me quite nicely, so I’m not in any hurry to change it.

Anyway, I’m working on an update for my website. It’s going to look similar, and make me look like a better web designer. I should also have an easier time putting new things online that I make. I’ve got a website and an animation that I’m going to put on there pretty soon. Since I’m throwing out what I currently have but using the same design, would it be version 2.1, or 4.0? (3.0 was in development, then canned as a bad idea).

I hope anyone who reads this has a happy new year. I’ll tell you my resolution:
To put a little more consideration into the new things that I do before doing them, and to be more sensible when I do make a decision regarding a new thing.
A good example of what I’m trying to avoid is buying a new brand of soap in bulk, only to later find out that it makes my skin itch.

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Just got wordpress up

Posted in Web on December 22, 2009 by tynation

Currently working on importing my blog from blogger and updating the layout to match my website.

Bear with me while I get everything running

UPDATE: Importing my blogger posts was easy as pie. Now all that is left to do is to get rid of the default blogger style (black text on white? No one ever does black text on white. ever.) and set up my site to redirect to blog.tynation.com

I’m really glad I learned about these features at my internship. This is quite exciting.

Should also note that a website version 4 is in the works (version 3 got scrapped some time ago, it was just a clone of version 2 done in flash)

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Some notes

Posted in Web, Work on December 21, 2009 by tynation

I just learned that I can use wordpress with my website so I’m going to convert to that very soon.

I recently downloaded a bunch of brushes and some gradients and patterns for photoshop and I have to say I am impressed. Instantly it looks like I’m a much better designer with much less work. I didn’t even know there were noise gradients in photoshop. If you’ve never heard of them I suggest you check them out, they look really awesome as skys, or random spiral things.

I’ve been working on a few freelance projects lately as well as seeking a job in the field. I had an interview with Petroglyph games, but they denied me. Their loss right? I’m going to try and contact them and find out why they didn’t hire me, but I must keep moving on.

My freelance jobs are going pretty well. I’m designing an advertisement style web page for Duco Tehnologies Inc. and Doing some animation for an Australian guy. oDesk is a really helpful tool.

Not having a job in the field is rather frustrating. It makes me feel like I shouldn’t be working on any personal projects, meanwhile all of my work is becoming more and more out dated I’m afraid. And I hate this catch-22 where you cant get a job unless you have experience, and you cant get experience without a job.

Ah well. I have an internship with a magazine right now so I guess that breaks the catch-22.

That’s all for now. Just wanted to make an update to show that I update this at least once in a blue moon

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Website version 2

Posted in Web on August 31, 2009 by tynation

A new version of my website is now up at http://www.tynation.com I’m very happy with it. All that’s left now is to complete my large building scene, add a render to that to my gallery, and get the video of that rendered for my portfolio. My portfolio should be updated by Friday night.

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Update

Posted in Web on August 25, 2009 by tynation

Currently working on a new web page, I’m liking the design and look of it a lot more. Not only that, but it saves energy (yay for black).

Also adding some final touches to my demo reel. Should be ready to go live by next monday if all goes well. The website will go up probably 2 Mondays from now.

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Damaged Goods

Posted in School on June 4, 2009 by tynation

So I should probably mention that I’ve been working on a short film in 3d called Damaged Goods. We were originally planning on releasing it in hd720 but it seems that that’s not going to be the case right now. We’re a bit behind with the animation so we’re going to be releasing it (for a grade) in 640×360. But we’re going to continue tweaking it afterward to make it how we truly want it to be. hd720 or 1080 depending on what Gray feels like.
Once It’s complete I will surely post it. It’s been about 6 or 7 months in the making now. I’d just like to mention that my roles in this project were exterior modeling, and animating, and some scripted animations.
Mel scripting is fun to use. I’ve been working on a fan for another class – I’ll post a video of that soon – and I made it work with scripts and such, its nifty.

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Web comic idea

Posted in Ideas on May 14, 2009 by tynation

I have this idea to make a web comic. I want to try having video game characters doing normal things they do during video games talking about random things that normal people would talk about during normal life.

Example: There are 2 Blue Spartans on a bridge, one of them is covering one entrance and the other is sniping over the bridge. The one with a shot gun asks a philosophical question and the other answers, then pauses in the middle of his answer and shouts “BOOM HEADSHOT!” and then finishes answering. The last panel would probably be them getting nade spammed or something.

I want to have the conversations in game be relevant to things in real life, while throwing in comical game events or memes.

Earlier I was reminded of times when I was grinding in the Plain of Justice in EQ and we would talk about mundane things in life while fighting endless monsters, and it seems comically out of character when you look at it.

I’m gonna try to get this up and running on my website http://www.tynation.com afterward a cult following will be appropriate for myself.

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Website

Posted in Web on April 28, 2009 by tynation

Currently I’m working on a website in my class. I’m pretty happy with it so far, It’s going to be http://www.tynation.com/ but its not up as of right now. Soon though it will be up.

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