Finally cut together My reel from Marvel super hero squad: comic combat. https://vimeo.com/42477690

New State New Studio New Life.. Agian

Trying to get back to posting... As if anyone is reading this :P

Drawing night at Giggy's place, practicing some silhouettes.

Hand Animated FX

(Original drawings)

So I have started working on my ability to animate visual FX by hand. here is my first attempt at traditional animation in 8 years, and my first ever hand animated VFX.

Having trouble with links, the copy paste adderess for the animated gif below.
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_tce_qLX6sJMjQ0OGUwY2UtODVmNC00YmE2LTliMjMtYzFlYzdhOThlNGVm&hl=en

(Quick Color)


Animated gif below.
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_tce_qLX6sJNzk3MDM1N2UtZTMyOS00NjZlLWJkY2QtYzk4OTExZWUwN2Zi&hl=en

New Job New City

Started my new job in Seattle Washington. The city is amazing and the studio is incredible. Crazy talented people here!

NEW WEBPAGE!!

www.stevenelsonanimator.com

Here is my 2009 FX Demo Reel. It is all Marvel footage since this was my first offical FX work in a game. Hopefully I will get my animation reel up soon, though now any animation work i did is now 2 years old :P Need to do some animation exercises!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d11pk97UNM

-Krooked

New Sculpture

So we recently shipped Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2!! You can see my developers blog here, http://marvelultimatealliance.marvel.com/en/news_comments/making_of_songbird/ .It is based on the civil war story arc by Mark Miller, and drawn by Steve Mcniven. I really enjoyed working on the title and wanted to do something that kinda reflected the time spent on the project. So the sculp will be based on the MUA 2 version of captain america. It is the moment just before civil war when cap and ironman are about to shake hands.



I will try to get my Tiff to take pictures of it often so i can post progress.

-Krooked

Finished paint

Finished off my Cyclops sculpture. Not happy with it, I hurried it to much as i usually do. I have started a new one that I have told myself I cant move on until I am 100% sure of what i just finished. Already looks 100 times better. I will post on it soon.

-Krooked

New sculpture 80% finished

Working on a sculpture and thought I should update my blog, since its been a year now :P
Try to get some new drawings up soon as well.

-Krooked

The Orange Box

So I just got the Orange Box for the 360 and will be playing Team Fortress 2 for anyone who wants to log in and play. Gamer tag is KrookedNelson. This post was really about the game portal that comes with the Orange Box as well. Great puzzle game, and has a very "Independent Film" feel in a video game. Here is a lowbudget flash version if you want a small taste. The actualy game is in 3D and much more fun.

Flash version of Portal (not by valve)

-Krooked

Rocketeer

New thunderdome drawing here. I cheated a bit on the last one. You are only suppose to get 30mins to draw it. On the robot I took something closer to 2 hours. So here is a 30min digital painting. This weeks topic "Favorite movie characters".

-Krooked

"Video game developers tell teenagers that math is cool"

It wasn't I who said that :P

So recently Vicarious did a little community educational course for some local school kids. I was asked to talk on behalf of the animation department and tell the attendies a little bit about our jobs. Here is the locate news paper artical on the event. -Krooked

The Artical

Animation Short.

Here is an animation test done for the animation forum here at work.
The rules were that by the end of the animation the can of corn had to have gone through the hoop atleast one time.


-Krooked

FullNelson

Welcome To KrookedNelson

At work we have this weekly thing called "Thunderdome" where all the artist do a drawing based on some pre-set idea. This weeks was from the "Robot with a specific job" series. Mine is a plumber. Robot Plumber. -Krooked