Getting the last bits wrapped up on the Arcade design project.
I'm hoping I can have this one wrapped up by the end of this week, so that leaves me 2 more days to work on it and get in final approval.
I've also been working on quick-mixing and mastering the 5 songs I recorded on saturday with my client to send out the mixes on Friday. I've been talking with the client about their upcoming plans and it appears they want to prepare a mix-tape of their work soon, so we'll see how things roll into the near future.
I just sent Steven Hasting an old unfinished project we started last year and he decided to post it up on soundcloud, enjoy!
In the meantime, i've been slowly getting back to sound-design on my dubstep remix mashup of Rob Zombie's music in the "Zombie Apocalypse" project, and while the creative juices are down I've been getting close family and friends who are interested to start reading and giving me feedback on my novel.
Sometime in the near future i'll be scheduling a google hangouts session for an web interview with the developers of NovaCut, a collaborative online based video editor application. I've made friends with two of the developers and have been in sporadic contact discussing various components of the video industry, politics, and straight down to production methods Neologic Studios and myself employ. I'm incredibly interested in seeing what Novacut can do to really shift the whole paradigm of video and motion picture production as it has the potential to greatly advance the democratization of the whole industry.
Connecting this tool to some huge DIY and true independent filmmaker communities like IndyMogul
And even the audiences of great youtube and internet DIY channels like Film Riot
could blow the entire industry right into the next generation of multimedia...
Well, that's my two cents anyway.
Looks like Lauren got her demo reel up online that I built for her.
I'm also going to be pushing to have these open commercial projects closed this week too, which means I'll have more behind the scenes and in-depth looks at these projects coming up online soon!
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!
