Of Swords and Two Shielded Maidens » Nicolas

Digital Coloring Tutorial

Nicolas — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:21:32 +0000

It’s something like a tutorial because I’ve added captions in the video at various points in my process. I used Camtasia Studio to record my screen during my color process. Only after compositing the video in Adobe Premier, and showing it to a friend, I realized Camtasia has this cool auto-zoom in function that doesn’t look great when it’s been sped up in my final video.

I hope the zooming isn’t too annoying. I’ll get my head around Camtasia soon. Enjoy.

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I thought I’d add some screen shots of the progress.

This first image was my alternate. I still might use it for something. Not sure yet.

The music featured in the video was created by me under my musical sudonym – Kid Hedora

Sketches and Time Wasted

Nicolas — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:58:55 +0000

Here’s my third update so far. I’ve mostly been messing around with the css of the website. Trying to add some nice features. I was messing around far too long and not coming to a conclusion on the design direction of the site that I ended up just wasting my time.

I’ve been working on a video that will be posted soon of my illustration process. It should be something nice and it features an illustration of Hayao Miyazaki hard at work. He is huge creative hero of mine. If I can accomplish half of what he’s done in my lifetime then I’ll be a happy man.

For now, like my other major influence Josh Middleton, I’ll do a small update of some old sketches.