NFTease

 Resurrecting this blog as the recent NFT craze has inspired me to put my personal work out there again.  I'm not hoping to make a ton of money, or even really sell anything.  I'm more interested in the concept, and that digital art can finally be "ownable".

I minted my first piece on Rarible, I'm working on more but am focusing on making paintings that I want to make, and not churning out a ton of content and minor iterations of the same thing which unfortunately seems to be the norm right now.

Check it out on Rarible

I'm focusing on short animated loops of a single living image.  Though the painting is done digitally, I am still retaining a painterly look and feel.  It gets lost a bit in the tiny preview, but there is quite a bit of detail in the full res version (3840x3840)

And that's my first one!  Will post more as I complete them, but since I'm literally hand painting everything (some elements frame-by-frame) they're going to be at least a couple of months apart.

Ascension

So my neglect of this blog has turned into neglecting catching up on posts that I’ve neglected. . .

Anyway, I’m going to keep trying to post my work, even if it isn’t terribly current.

This is another glass painting, completed at the beginning of this year-  

ASCENSION

Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Glass

I’m still working out the processes of reverse glass painting, and how I can use them to accentuate (rather than hamper) my style.  I made a couple of steps forward with this piece, mostly in control over the gold leaf and incorporating more sophisticated textures, which can be very difficult on glass.  

However, I feel as though I can better describe form with more practice.

It was featured, along with a couple of my other pieces, in a show in Japan last April.

Unfinished Swan Announce Trailer

I finally have a few days off after E3 and other miscellaneous projects.   I haven’t had the time to post in months, but hopefully I can get caught up on what I’ve been up to. 

First up is an announce trailer for a  game called “The Unfinished Swan”.  It’s an artsy game that will most likely be downloadable on the PlayStation Network.

Unfinished Swan Announce Trailer from Joshua Miller on Vimeo.

I created the entire video, except for the book closing animation at the end, which was handled by Sony’s San Diego studio.  I also inherited the game models and some creature animation from the game studio, but it required a significant amount of cleanup, especially the swan.

The splatter effect was achieved mainly by using cameras to project animation created with After Effects.  I also used toon shaders to create mattes for the ink based on camera and light positions at the frame of the splatter.

Sketchbook

I really need to get better about posting, these jpegs have been on my desktop for months waiting to be uploaded. . . 

While visiting family over the holidays, my niece (8) and nephew (12) asked me to draw their favorite animals for them.-

TGS 2011 (part 2)

This is the second video that I created for the Tokyo Games Show in September-

Though it is yet another Vita video, this one is probably my favorite, and the most interesting conceptually.

It played on a loop on the show floor for the people waiting in line to try out the device.

More Catching Up. . .

I have had a painting in a gallery in Ginza (Tokyo) since early November of last year.

It is an exhibition of glass paintings, this was the first one that I completed using techniques taught to me by Michiyo Ishikawa.  I am unhappy with the way it turned out, mostly because it was my first time doing both reverse glass painting and gold leaf gilding.  I am still learning the techniques, and it is far less forgiving than painting on canvas.

However, Michiyo insisted that I include it in the show.  Though I do not feel that the work is up to my standards, it does feel good to have a piece in a gallery in Japan!

TGS 2011 (part 1)

I’ve been neglecting this blog, I have several things that I’ve been meaning to post for a long time.

Way back in September, I worked on 2 videos for the Tokyo Games Show.  Sony even shipped a computer to my hotel room in Hawaii, where I was attending a wedding, to make last minute changes before the show.

The first video opened the show, which saw record attendance last year-

On the surface it looks very similar to the video that I created for E3, but there were many changes, especially to the model.  I feel as though the most noticeable improvement in this version was the fact that I composited it myself, I felt that the E3 video was not handled as well as it could have been on that end.