Overview

Nik works wonders with Photoshop and 3D. Its like awesome motion graphics but all stills. I dig the way he uses the natural and organic elements with the high tech of 3D, blending them together perfectly with great color choices.

Project Name:

Shinybinary

URL:

http://www.shinybinary.com/

Artist/Creator:

Nik Ainley

Country:

UK

Tags:

Portfolio Web Color Design Organic Illustration Jeff Soto 3D Cpluv

Nik Ainley

http://www.shinybinary.com

Biography

I'm a 25 year old illustration/designer from Oxford in the UK. I've been doing digital artwork for about 5 years ago since picking up a copy of Photoshop at uni. After getting more and more interested in my work I quit my full time job as a web designer about 6 months ago to go freelance and am loving it.

Where do you work? What do you do there?

Answered above ^^

How long have you been in this field?

Answered above ^^

What role did (are) you play(ing) in the project?

Well being a freelancer means I do everything. Negotiate work, keep the clients informed, come up with the ideas and then execute them as best as I can. Then there’s all the boring admin and financial stuff as well...

What was (is) your inspiration for this project?

Well basically I needed a place to put my increasing number of Photoshop doodles online other than places like Deviantart. I also wanted to start doing tutorials and such back then although I've stopped that now. Since then it has turned into a way or making money and is basically a mixture between my personal and professional portfolio these days. I still love producing pictures for myself, but money has also become a pretty good inspiration to keep doing what I do ;)

What is in your equipment/gear setup?

I've got fairly meaty PC. Quad core processor, lots of RAM and hard drives, 30" monitor... all the trimmings really. I spend nearly all of my time in Photoshop but also use Illustrator quite a bit, and sometimes 3D packages if I need to.