Wazzy sketch

Street art

2011-07-05T10:42:00.000-07:00

Street art from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
A work in progress for the ACAD demo reel, special thanks to Ryan Von Hagen and Pierre Quinn who helped me pull it off!

HEADBANGER

2011-06-09T17:20:00.001-07:00

HEADBANGER from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

"The Black Monk" WIP

2011-04-19T20:42:00.000-07:00

"The Black Monk" WIP from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
Clip From "The Black Monk", a short i've been working on.

Some motion capture WIP

2011-03-11T22:33:00.000-08:00

Mocap work in progress from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
Some rough motion capture process. Still haven't fully animated it yet. Rough key-frames here and there but still looks kinda neat.

Wazzy Theater Homepage

2011-03-09T22:49:00.000-08:00

And a bit of photoshop elbow grease and we got another colour comp for my websites homepage!

Wazzy Theater fun with lighting

2011-03-09T22:46:00.000-08:00

Wazzy Theater Fun with lighting from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
Just made a little loop of all the different lighting attempts I made, makes for an interesting watch!.

AIM collaboaration

2011-03-04T16:56:00.000-08:00

AIM (3D) from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

AIM (Accordion) from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.
AIM (keys) from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
Collaboration with Morgan Curley on her Art In Motion touring art gallery campaign.

Logo design: Morgan Curley
Animation: Nic Wassill.

Food Mag Colaboaration process

2011-03-04T16:03:00.000-08:00

Illustration collaboration for Morgan & Lauren's Food Mag.

The Article is about food stylists.

Logo mockup

2011-02-25T22:16:00.000-08:00

Miltron game app LOGO

2011-02-25T22:03:00.000-08:00

Just finished the logo for the iphone/ipad game I've been developing over the break!

Lost Civilization Environment test

2011-02-16T11:36:00.000-08:00

Lost Civilization environment test from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

MILTON app Character Lineup

2011-02-14T01:12:00.000-08:00

Milton Character Lineup from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
Just some loops of the various critters im developing for an iphone/ipad game.

Children's Book Cover and Inside Spread

2011-02-10T16:06:00.000-08:00

Crab Corral Set Process

2011-02-05T20:42:00.000-08:00

Folio Website style frame

2011-02-03T15:56:00.001-08:00

A colour comp for 3D environments class

2011-02-02T15:52:00.000-08:00

Tuff Town Obnoxiousnesssss

2011-01-31T17:24:00.000-08:00

Tuff Town from Nic Wassill on Vimeo. Got super bored, so instead of doing homework i made something obnoxious, enjoy!

Tuff Town

2011-01-31T11:44:00.000-08:00

Funny sketch i did at lunch, my friend Pierre came up with the idea for the manliest concept ever.

Lost Civilizations set test

2011-01-27T10:17:00.000-08:00

Lost Civilization set Test from Nic Wassill on Vimeo Camera test for a miniature set, models not fully refined or properly lit yet.

Website Theater Mock-up Still

2011-01-27T08:58:00.000-08:00

Had a bit of fun taking my photoshop roughs and making them out of cut paper. This is going to be the theater portion of

Website Theater Mockup

2011-01-27T08:22:00.000-08:00

Untitled from Nic Wassill on Vimeo
This is a cut paper mock-up I did for the theater portion of my portfolio website. The final version will be much larger and have more intricate detail and textural & lighting treatments.

Westley Shweebe is the RECYCLOPS

2011-01-16T20:40:00.000-08:00

Recyclops process

2011-01-16T20:33:00.000-08:00

Birth of the Recyclops

2011-01-14T18:44:00.000-08:00

Preliminary stages of sculpting my "Recyclops" protagonist character. He's a teenage cyclops octopus who believes his alter ego is that of a super hero who commands the forces of good in the war against garbage. He spends his spare time cleaning up garbage and re-purposing found objects in the name of environmentalism.

Market Mall Colour Comps

2010-12-24T14:58:00.000-08:00

Some color comps for Market Malls Avant Garden Spring poster project.

Rasputin Cover

2010-11-29T19:47:00.000-08:00

Rasputin Comic

2010-11-29T19:36:00.000-08:00

Figure In Light

2010-11-23T00:14:00.000-08:00

Using light as the primary mode of narrative, fun with ambience, textures and impending Squidnessssss.

Some Figure in Light Process

2010-11-19T16:26:00.000-08:00

I started with a rough mockup of the narrative elements then pushed them around till the mood was working better.

Rasputin Character Walk test

2010-11-12T11:11:00.001-08:00

Rasputin Walk Rough from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Rasputin's Influence

2010-11-05T13:08:00.001-07:00

Rasputin's Control from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.
My first draft at a Rasputin conceptual animatic.

Bad Thoughts rough animation

2010-10-17T17:22:00.001-07:00

Bad Thoughts from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

One of my favorite spreads from my Development book

2010-10-17T14:16:00.001-07:00

Miniature Windmill Test

2010-10-13T11:53:00.002-07:00

Miniature Windmill Test from Nic Wassill on Vimeo. Just adding a bit of motion to the model with the help of a cordless drill.

Thought Skulls "The beginning of greed"

2010-10-13T11:53:00.000-07:00

SKULLS SKULLS SKULLS

2010-10-11T22:48:00.000-07:00

Some rotoscope process

2010-10-09T19:02:00.000-07:00

How to crush your little bother in Mortal Combat from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Untitled from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Composite for rotoscope from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Uncut cut paper animation

2010-10-08T07:44:00.000-07:00

A Raw look at my stop motion process from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Some innocent looking kid

2010-10-04T21:50:00.000-07:00

These are studies for one of my process book characters, he's "lost innocence" cause he never really seems to find where he is going, therefore he gets lost alot.

Villain?

2010-10-02T15:43:00.000-07:00

The beginning of a bad idea, I think thats the inspiration for this guy.

warmin up the painter again

2010-10-02T09:43:00.000-07:00

Protagonist Portrait Post Crit

2010-09-29T13:21:00.000-07:00

The before and after, push the blacks! Desaturate the background, move that dreamcatcher says denis and crew!

SKULLS

2010-09-28T16:47:00.001-07:00

Protagonist Portrait

2010-09-27T22:15:00.000-07:00

Photoshop composite of sculpted figures, miniatures and live stand-in. A bit of watercolor thrown in for kicks.

Things went down

2010-09-27T00:17:00.000-07:00

Skull test

2010-09-24T22:29:00.000-07:00

Rotorobot

2010-09-22T22:55:00.000-07:00

Late Night Dance loop from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

I got tired of rotoscoping, so I started dancing instead.

Fig study

2010-09-18T17:02:00.000-07:00

This guy's a bit younger, I see him getting into

more trouble than the old guy. Young and reckless budday.

Protagonist study

2010-09-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

Just trying to get a feel for the face structure, weathered look with eyes of steel.

Cut paper animation

2010-09-16T17:39:00.000-07:00

Cut Paper Animation from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Puppet coloured and ready to animate

2010-09-14T23:08:00.000-07:00

Lots of little pieces jointed with string and tape, he's mad flexible!

Cut Paper B/W Character Comp

2010-09-13T22:23:00.001-07:00

Just black and white for now, colour and texture tommorow. I will probably print him out and string him together to start animating him later this week. Everyone loves a sloppy Ombre.

Ombre in progress

2010-09-12T21:49:00.001-07:00

Things just got HD

2010-09-09T16:46:00.001-07:00

My new setup for 2011, Canon T2i with 60fps slomo video to keep it Most-Hi Def

Low Eye dolly done did it cheap cheap cheap

2010-09-06T13:13:00.001-07:00

It sure aint pretty but it sure is cheap. Great for time-lapse motion shots, videos and wide panoramic photos!
Found this dolly online, looks pretty sick but they're hand made in Finland for 600 euros, I made the one in the photo above this one for 20$ Canadian, i love Home Deeps.

Keepin it real...green

2010-09-06T13:07:00.001-07:00

Green screens done

Going green

2010-09-06T12:44:00.000-07:00

Fantavious Fritz helpin out with the framin

Nomis Logo Comp for spring line

2010-08-11T22:03:00.000-07:00

Made a Mike Mignola Batman silkscreen

2010-08-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

Got my Corel Painter back!

2010-05-09T15:01:00.001-07:00

Quick 5 min study from my head.

Weird head for practice

2010-05-06T11:14:00.000-07:00

Genre Combo

2010-04-25T12:17:00.000-07:00

Animal Farm spot

2010-04-20T16:39:00.001-07:00

AF FINAL 4

2010-04-20T15:01:00.000-07:00

AF FINAL 3

2010-04-20T14:40:00.001-07:00

Animal Farm Final

2010-04-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

Dioramalama ding dong

Running of the bulls Colour rough

2010-04-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

Mars Surface rough

2010-04-18T21:28:00.001-07:00

I took this photo on our fifth orbit. So tight hahah

ANIMAL FARM rough

2010-04-14T11:23:00.001-07:00

Some digital comps for a diorama i will photograph for this illustration of George Orwell's "Animal Farm".

Pineapple Express Kinetic Type

2010-04-12T16:13:00.000-07:00

Pineapple Express Kinetic Type from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Probably one of my fav animations I did last spring, great movie. James Franco plays the best dealer ever.

History Channel ID

2010-04-12T16:10:00.000-07:00

History Channel ID from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

History Channel ID for my rich media class last spring.

Super Shogun Funzone

2010-04-12T16:06:00.000-07:00

Super Shogun Funzone bot from Nic Wassill on Vimeo.

Just a fun video of a moonwalking robot!

Insight Surf Creative Hands Of Vision

2010-04-06T19:32:00.000-07:00

INSIGHT Spots ROUGH

2010-03-31T00:27:00.000-07:00

Insight surfer process

2010-03-31T00:24:00.001-07:00

New Humans

2010-03-29T13:47:00.001-07:00

Running of the bulls FINAL

2010-03-23T22:58:00.001-07:00

Dinosaurs on Mars

2010-03-21T13:50:00.001-07:00

Refined Bull Comp

2010-03-18T11:07:00.001-07:00

Running of the bulls rough comp

2010-03-18T09:33:00.001-07:00

moto

2010-03-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

experimental environment

2010-03-15T17:43:00.001-07:00

Cremation of Sam McGee Final

2010-03-14T22:53:00.001-07:00

Sam McGee 1,2 nearly done

2010-03-11T22:57:00.001-08:00

Opposites layout version 2

2010-03-09T16:50:00.000-08:00

Opposites layout version 1

2010-03-09T16:30:00.000-08:00

Vendo-Limb

2010-03-09T16:18:00.001-08:00

Pulp environments revisited

2010-03-02T15:00:00.001-08:00

Pulp Cover Spread DONE!!!

2010-03-02T11:13:00.001-08:00

almost done....

2010-03-01T14:32:00.001-08:00

Sam McGee environment roughs

2010-02-28T20:28:00.000-08:00

Pulp Cropped

2010-02-28T18:15:00.000-08:00

PulpCover final drafts

2010-02-25T22:17:00.001-08:00

Pulp environment 1

2010-02-25T00:43:00.000-08:00

Pulp environment 2

2010-02-24T23:37:00.000-08:00

Pulp cover reviewed

2010-02-24T20:12:00.000-08:00

Pulp cover process

2010-02-24T19:58:00.000-08:00

7 Deadly sins editorial (Sloth)

2010-02-09T20:39:00.000-08:00

Python Finished (pre collage)

2010-02-09T16:11:00.001-08:00

india ink+quil+toothbrush

7 deadly sins process

2010-02-09T16:03:00.000-08:00