Vince Nimmoor
Vince has a broad background ranging from traditional animation to video and design for print and web. Over the past few years he has traveled to multiple cities from Detroit to Milan doing motion graphics for hire. He single-handedly won a Telly Award for a 30 min children's animation and most recently won the Portland Cut and Paste audience choice award. Vince enjoys the challenge of balancing deadlines with constantly upgrading his technical and artistic skills.
Vince’s latest Journal entries…
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January 25 2012
The Thin Black Line
Over the past 10 months I have been doing illustrations for a client of ours that develops future technologies. The purpose of these drawings is to simply and quickly support the concept descriptions using a single frame with no text. It’s more challenging than it sounds. We kept finding with some of the concepts a need to add more and more text to explain what was happening in the single frame. A single frame can only capture an instant in time and that it became apparent that the approach could…
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November 17 2011
Man, I gotta Key!
One of the rad things we do here at ADi is participate in independent and experimental projects as often as we can. Currently we are involved in a short film called Persephone (as faithful readers of the ADi blog know) with Director Mark Roush of New Adjustment Productions. A turn of the century dark tale of a magical woman made of chocolate. A brilliant story by Roush, to learn more click here to visit his blog. Part of my role on this project is keying out the backgrounds so the characters can…
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June 23 2011
Wood Carving
A couple years ago I received a Dremel tool for Christmas. That year after removing all of the branches from our Christmas tree to make disposal easier, I tested out my new tool on the trunk. At first I just wanted to see how it handled, after a few hours I ended up with my first totem pole carving. And I found myself an awesome new hobby. I don’t use the rotary tool any more for the main part of the job, only in the finish stages. I prefer to block in…
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May 31 2011
Camouflage as art
In 1917 artist Marcel Duchamp submitted a very unusual work to an art show in New York. In fact, his piece was a urinal intended to pass as a “work of art” and to demonstrate that all works should be accepted. It was also a strong statement defining aesthetics. What is art? Aesthetics has always been one of my favorite subjects because its very definition is subjective. It changes based on culture, purpose and even one’s mood. How does this relate to camouflage as art? Lately I have been watching…
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March 21 2011
L’art pour l’art
As ADi’s latest addition I have found myself drawing again on a daily basis. For the past several years my work has been almost all digital, working on web sites, UI design, print and motion graphics. Of course initial concepts are created on paper to some extent. Most of the time these are just raw outlines of how the finished piece will play out. I remember when I used to actually carry a sketch book in my back pocket everywhere I went, drawing just for…
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