I'm posting up some new reels I cut recently.
Here's a hybrid 2D/3D reel:
And my just-2D reel:
I want some of my more recent work from Loopsy on these, but it hasn't aired yet.
And for good measure, here's my 3D reel, which hasn't been updated (yet):
Ryan Neff - Demo Reel from Ryan Neff on Vimeo.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Robot Chicken/DC Comics Art Show, and other things.
So here's the final piece I made for the Robot Chicken DC Comics Art Show.
Direct Image Link for zoomification
All done in Photoshop. Lots of pen tool, lots of layers, lots of masking, and bits of the brush tool. And it was done in far too many hours, in the span of far too few days. The show is Friday, so I might make another post Saturday on how that goes.
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Music stuff to catch up on:
Not-So-Black Metal:
A song using some fast double-bass drumming and some blast beats, with a bit of a post-metal vibe and my usual upbeat-ish improv solo.
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E-bow Thing:
It's a thing. I made it using my new e-bow. Hence the "E-bow Thing" thing.
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02-02-2014:
Looped backing track and some improvised solos for most of it. Some more metally riffing at the end. Plus, synth sounds I made myself in Reason.
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1-24-2014:
Quick idea recorded with just guitars (originally to a metronome), because I was too lazy to actually write this progression down I just recorded it. Probably no easier in the long run. Also quasi-improvised, especially on the right-channel.
Direct Image Link for zoomification
All done in Photoshop. Lots of pen tool, lots of layers, lots of masking, and bits of the brush tool. And it was done in far too many hours, in the span of far too few days. The show is Friday, so I might make another post Saturday on how that goes.
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Music stuff to catch up on:
Not-So-Black Metal:
A song using some fast double-bass drumming and some blast beats, with a bit of a post-metal vibe and my usual upbeat-ish improv solo.
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E-bow Thing:
It's a thing. I made it using my new e-bow. Hence the "E-bow Thing" thing.
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02-02-2014:
Looped backing track and some improvised solos for most of it. Some more metally riffing at the end. Plus, synth sounds I made myself in Reason.
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1-24-2014:
Quick idea recorded with just guitars (originally to a metronome), because I was too lazy to actually write this progression down I just recorded it. Probably no easier in the long run. Also quasi-improvised, especially on the right-channel.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Computator drawerings and what have you.
I made these. Not much to say here, other than "I really need a Cintiq."
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For the next 2 things, these were made for 2 music subreddits' banners.
First, /r/progrockmusic. A subreddit for, well, Prog Rock music.
See it in action HERE
Second, /r/epicmetal. A subreddit for, well, epic metal.
Background was done really hastily, but the guy turned out pretty cool:
See it in action HERE
These were done in the spirit of the /r/progmetal banner I made some time back.
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And now for the music portion of tonight's broadcast:
Here's a sloppy recording I did the same night I wrote this part. It was made more out of boredom than anything else. Solo is improvised:
Here's a sloppy clip of a song I wrote a short time ago. Done as a proof-of-concept for myself. Solo at the end is improv:
Here's a not-sloppy, but computerized version of the song the previous clip comes from.
For the next 2 things, these were made for 2 music subreddits' banners.
First, /r/progrockmusic. A subreddit for, well, Prog Rock music.
See it in action HERE
Second, /r/epicmetal. A subreddit for, well, epic metal.
Background was done really hastily, but the guy turned out pretty cool:
See it in action HERE
These were done in the spirit of the /r/progmetal banner I made some time back.
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And now for the music portion of tonight's broadcast:
Here's a sloppy recording I did the same night I wrote this part. It was made more out of boredom than anything else. Solo is improvised:
Here's a sloppy clip of a song I wrote a short time ago. Done as a proof-of-concept for myself. Solo at the end is improv:
Here's a not-sloppy, but computerized version of the song the previous clip comes from.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Wedding Invite Design
My brother Scott and his now-wife April asked me to design their wedding
invitations several months ago, giving me mostly free reign over the
design.
I wanted to try a cut-out construction paper-type look, but I wanted to do it digitally. I initially designed the parts of the card in flash so I could easily readjust them as needed, export them as an image sequence, and import them into photoshop as layers. From there, I added the paper texture on individual items, added drop shadows (so. many. drop. shadows.) to give it depth, added the text and little squiggly bits (with even more drop shadows), and tweaked colors until I got it all right. I ended up with well upwards of 100 layers, methodically sorted into a bunch of folders in the most well-organized photoshop file I've ever made. It really had to be, because it was madness sorting out all those pieces.
The Reception invite and RSVP cards were simpler from there. I took assets from the first card and repurposed them into the new cards.
I wanted to try a cut-out construction paper-type look, but I wanted to do it digitally. I initially designed the parts of the card in flash so I could easily readjust them as needed, export them as an image sequence, and import them into photoshop as layers. From there, I added the paper texture on individual items, added drop shadows (so. many. drop. shadows.) to give it depth, added the text and little squiggly bits (with even more drop shadows), and tweaked colors until I got it all right. I ended up with well upwards of 100 layers, methodically sorted into a bunch of folders in the most well-organized photoshop file I've ever made. It really had to be, because it was madness sorting out all those pieces.
The Reception invite and RSVP cards were simpler from there. I took assets from the first card and repurposed them into the new cards.
I'm rather proud of these, and I know Scott and April are really happy with them, and I got many compliments from guests. It's good to see it came a long way from the first draft I sent them:
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In unrelated news, here's a song I did.
https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/broken-strings
The first fully electronic song I've done in a long while. My guitar string broke, and I felt like making music still. Lots of fun sound experimentation in this. The main thing is messing around with distortion. Most noticeably at the end, obviously, but almost every track of this has some amount of fluctuating distortion. Also, a sort of mistake resulted in the drum climax near the end. I accidentally left a more rock-oriented drum loop I had started with in, and forgot about it after placing it way later in the track to save for later. It ended up playing on top of the electronic-oriented drum track, and after a few tweaks to make it fit better, i decided to leave it. The electronic track still has the punch in the bass, but the rock track fills in gaps with energy, and more prominent cymbals.
https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/broken-strings
The first fully electronic song I've done in a long while. My guitar string broke, and I felt like making music still. Lots of fun sound experimentation in this. The main thing is messing around with distortion. Most noticeably at the end, obviously, but almost every track of this has some amount of fluctuating distortion. Also, a sort of mistake resulted in the drum climax near the end. I accidentally left a more rock-oriented drum loop I had started with in, and forgot about it after placing it way later in the track to save for later. It ended up playing on top of the electronic-oriented drum track, and after a few tweaks to make it fit better, i decided to leave it. The electronic track still has the punch in the bass, but the rock track fills in gaps with energy, and more prominent cymbals.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Oh look, more songs.
Posting a couple things I recorded in the past few weeks:
https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/polysomnogram
This one turned out pretty cool. Started with a simple chord progression (well, deceptively simple. Lots of sus2 and 6 and 7 chords and whatnot) to which I added the atmospheric track. I recorded some improv solos, and then another atmospheric effect track that comes in at 3:00ish. The end of the solo track was sort of a half-mistake that went somewhere cool. I bent a pitch to the wrong note, so I had sort of given up on that take and just messing around kept playing that wrong pitch bend, but then started to notice it could work. In post, I faded it out, and faded in the same track with some spacey distortion, and faded that into the atmospheric track. Kinda neat.
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https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/absurburb
This was interesting. Using a drumbeat and synths pretty unorthodox for what I usually do, I created a quick loop and went ahead and recorded a solo track. This is one of those loops where it's bouncing back and forth between 2 different scales as the chords change, giving a bit of a jazz element to it. I followed that pretty strictly for most of it until the ~4:00 area where it devolved into controlled noise and nonsense. Brought in a rhythm guitar section towards the end and the lead track began to match the clean guitars. Between this, the track at the top, and some older stuff, I've been looking more at the electronic/heavily processed side of things. I'm thinking about getting a small MIDI controller keyboard in the future to mess around with more synth stuff.
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https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/improvloop
Pretty simple, just a loop of fake drums, fake bass, clean guitar, and an improv track.
https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/polysomnogram
This one turned out pretty cool. Started with a simple chord progression (well, deceptively simple. Lots of sus2 and 6 and 7 chords and whatnot) to which I added the atmospheric track. I recorded some improv solos, and then another atmospheric effect track that comes in at 3:00ish. The end of the solo track was sort of a half-mistake that went somewhere cool. I bent a pitch to the wrong note, so I had sort of given up on that take and just messing around kept playing that wrong pitch bend, but then started to notice it could work. In post, I faded it out, and faded in the same track with some spacey distortion, and faded that into the atmospheric track. Kinda neat.
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https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/absurburb
This was interesting. Using a drumbeat and synths pretty unorthodox for what I usually do, I created a quick loop and went ahead and recorded a solo track. This is one of those loops where it's bouncing back and forth between 2 different scales as the chords change, giving a bit of a jazz element to it. I followed that pretty strictly for most of it until the ~4:00 area where it devolved into controlled noise and nonsense. Brought in a rhythm guitar section towards the end and the lead track began to match the clean guitars. Between this, the track at the top, and some older stuff, I've been looking more at the electronic/heavily processed side of things. I'm thinking about getting a small MIDI controller keyboard in the future to mess around with more synth stuff.
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https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/improvloop
Pretty simple, just a loop of fake drums, fake bass, clean guitar, and an improv track.
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