The Art of John Uibel Not for the Feigned of Art™

*Heavy sigh*

I have finally rebuilt the portfolio section of this, my until-recently-hacked website (note the handy link in the header^). I am no coder by any means so, simple as it seems, ’twas quite the feet for yours truly to bring my site back from the digitally-dead. The portfolio now includes sections dedicated to Concept Art, Storyboarding, Graphic Design, Production Design & Art Direction, and my Personal Work. Clicking any one of these sections links to a Gallery page (which itself could use some redesign — that’ll have to come another day). Please take some time to wander in and throughout the images and let me know what you think.

Kumquats at Dawn; .5hrs

To the hack that hacked my website and brought it to its humble knees last year, I forgive you. As damaging and disheartening as it was to discover the smoldering ruins of an online portfolio that because of you would neither ‘port’ nor ‘folio’, I absolve you of the dastardly digi-deeds you did. Indeed.

The upside? Your pixellanimous actions have merely fast-tracked a much needed improvement to my time-worn website and poked a hurry stick in the lion’s mouth of my ingenuity.

Because of you, all is not lost.

Mine was the ‘blog to nowhere’, desperately in search of a stealthy ne’er-do-well such as yourself. And along you came, post haste! In fact, you have merely ushered a new era of creative productivity! Whereas before there was only a dribble of Uibel dabble, you can now expect to see a cavalcade of such stuff.  Bringing it back online to April freshness will be a digital adventure we can both enjoy. Think of the new site as perhaps the same as the old website, only simpler:

• Gone are the dozens of links to fabulous resources, helpful websites and talented artists. No more creative clutter!
• Gone are the textures, tutorials and tricks which permeated the site and made it marginally interesting. Cleaner and less ful-filling!
• Gone are the dozens of supportive comments of many whom I have never met. Networking is so over-rated!
• Gone are the SEO rankings which I earned inch by inch, yard by yard. Watch those earnings fall away!
• Gone are the dozens of insightful posts documenting the steady progress of artistic genius. No more ring around the color!

So, try as you may, Mr. Website Hackperson-of-interest, you succeeded. Maybe in three or four years I’ll invite you back and we can do it all over again.

And so this, then folks, is the New Start, the Big Day, the Year to Make it all Worthwhile.

Welcome (again) to the Art of John Uibel.