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The last few weeks have been crazy trying to get things in order.  I've been rounding up projects, finishing up a couple in particular: The Arcade box Design for Mikey.  I've also finished a couple small projects: a video reel for a friend of mine Lauren, as well as Harry re-modeling a logo for an upcoming project he's been pushing forward on.  We're still waiting to wrap up the two commercial project campaigns I worked on back in May, but as soon as they're wrapped I'll have lots of updates.

1st design iteration

As I started to get more characters placed and sent the client a picture for reviewing on the "direction" he wanted the design to go, I was given instructions to lose the "logo" in the center and do more of a collage.

2nd design iteration

After updating the client again I got more information how how he wanted the collage to look, and he sent me a few for reference:

3rd design iteration

3rd design iteration update

Should have this project done this month, I've had the Dubstep remix on hold for a short while thought I'm still touching base with it and will be getting back to producing it very soon.  I've had to take care of some serious financial stresses and as soon as I can get myself situated in that area I'll have the ability to mentally focus the project down and have it released by the end of this year if all goes well!

I have a couple other growing projects, taking on a client / label that is going to start needing steady mastering work.  Will be mastering a project tomorrow, and negotiating for further projects down the line as well. 

The studio has some projects on the back-plate that might get moved back to the front of progress continues well with these I'm wrapping up.  A sample catalog is in the works, along with a roayltay free music elements catalog for game and interactive media developers. 

I'm going to announce this on here just as a "possibility" of opening up a new youtube section for Neologic Studios and producing a weekly series of DIY and tutorial videos for audio production.  There's no telling when / if this will happen, but the idea is that they would be short, concise videos that highlight a particular product in demonstration, used in a project we are working on, and give an in-depth look at it's use; to DIY projects and how-to's.  If this interests you, get some discussion going on this post's comment section!

Quickly Quixotic

I wasn't intending for a short hiatus on the blog but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything.  In the last few weeks I've been commissioned to do some graphics design work for two jobs.

The first is a T shirt logo design for the Turlock Geo club.  The design iteration was fairly simple, and the design itself is actually pretty straightforward: create a globe with a tree and a magnifying glass focused in on the geographical location of the club's hometown.

The idea is to have the graphic pressed over black shirt cloth.  So I rendered out previews with black background so the client could more accurately review.  With the final draft ready for t-shirt press I can start work on the larger, more creative project which is designing a custom graphic wrap for someone's MAME arcade project.  It's really cool actually.

Somewhere in between the graphics projects and getting all the stuff I'll discuss below going, I managed to have a couple recording sessions for a local artist.

I've got a few major studio projects I'm putting together.  The biggest is starting a sound effects and music cues catalog to market to Indie game developers and interactive media.  I'll start sharing some of that once we launch.  However, I did just recently purchase a brand new Zoom H4N to aid in some field recording tests and options.

Troy and I both have already done a few test sessions which I may have a quick video update coming soon!

Contact mics on my computer...

  
The Zoom is pretty solid and I also acquired some cheap and effective contact microphones!  Should make some interesting tests in the coming days.

Between that and the larger order I placed with Sweetwater which should be arriving soon: Universal Audio 4-710d and Art Headamp7pro; We're getting ready to do some serious sound effects field recordings.  I've been putting together session plans and diagrams for it all.

On top of that, we just started our website which we launched this week:

www.neologicstudios.com

Just barely getting my hands dirty with Wordpress and PHP management in Dreamweaver.  To top it all off, the last week I've been collecting movies and footage for a video editing project I have been commissioned to create for this martial arts event in Los Gatos on the 28th of April.  I'm required to build 1 minute video reels of several major martial artists and big name actors that have an extensive and impress list of credits.

Among them: James Hong, Martin Kove, Cary Tagawa, Bolo Yeung, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, and Bob Wall.  There are going to be a TON more at this event, and I'm going to be running the projection system and managing all the video clips.  As I get more work done on these projects I'll post some updates.

Hopefully I can get these projects done fast enough to allow for some time to update this blog more!