After a two week break, Not Invented Here is back.

We know it's not great to suddenly go on hiatus like we did. We are working on a plan to put NIH back to its formerly regular schedule. We hope to reveal it shortly!

As you may have noticed, there's no Not Invented Here this week. We'll try to get back on the wagon next week. You know, unless one of us notices something shiny out of the corner of his eye.

Hey NIH Fans,

Jeff Zugale, your artist here, looking for a day job. Don't worry, I'm still drawing NIH and will keep doing so! However, I'd really like to get back to working on video games as a staff artist. I'm a very experienced concept artist, illustrator and storyboard artist, plus I can work in 3D doing modeling, texturing, rigging/skinning and some animation. I can make a pretty fair pass at motion graphics, video editing and animatics, and I also have tons of experience doing graphic design and marketing-related art. I have many years of experience working on production teams of all kinds, plus I love games and really put my heart into my work. I'm a kind of guy that's good to have around a game studio: lots of applicable skills and motivation to use them to make the project better.

I'm most interested in Concept Artist jobs, but would also like Environment & Prop modeling a lot. I very much like sci-fi type games (I'm all about HALO, Mass Effect and the like, even though I'm awful at multiplayer, sigh) but I can work in any art style.

If, dear readers, you happen to be in the art side of the game business, or you know someone who is, I'd very much appreciate your consideration. I'm available to relocate anywhere in the continental US and Canada. As long as you don't mind that I'll be doing Not Invented Here on the side, of course!

You can see examples of my work at my website along with demo reels and my resume; you can also find me on LinkedIn, just put my name in the Search field.

Thanks!

[Note from Bill: Jeff's works speaks for itself, and he has the best work ethic you will ever experience. Someone should snatch him right up!]

Last year Not Invented Here was approached by the I.T. department of a large corporation to help them with an internal awareness campaign. Increasingly employees are using their personal devices to do work, and this presents new security challenges. The idea was get past the "blah blah blah" factor by creating funny, unusual posters that engaged employees and inspired them to learn more. We met with their task force several times to understand their talking points, and brainstormed a short list of topics. Then we proposed copy and rough art. We had some back-and-forth and narrowed it down to the best five. The actual finished art only took a few days to produce.

I recently got the client's permission to post slightly anonymized versions of those posters (click to see a larger version):

This was super fun, and we'd love to do more creative work with other companies. Interested? Drop me a line.

Seattle is lucky enough to host what is widely considered one of the best comic conventions in the country, Emerald City Comic Con. Every year it gets bigger and more popular, and for 2013 they've doubled in size. As a consequence, everybody has moved! We're now at booth 1212, sharing our space with Unshelved and the good folks from Cyanide & Happiness. You can't miss us, we're right across the aisle from Image Comics.

3-day and Saturday passes for ECCC are sold out, but if you buy your ticket now you can still visit us on Friday and Sunday!