Get Your Very Own Nathan!
on August 12th, 2010, by nathanHello! Nathan here.
Since my job on Project Durian is over, I am now seeking work. Specifically I am looking for freelance, consulting, and teaching work. So if anyone has money they would like to throw at me in exchange for me doing stuff, please get in touch with me at work@cessen.com
I currently live in Seattle, WA. I am happy to work remotely, and I am more than happy to travel.
My primary skills are rigging and animation, but I am skilled in most other aspects of 3d production as well. And although my professional experience thus far has been in film production, I am interested in branching out to other applications of my talents, especially visualization work.
I have a new demo reel for 2010, but unfortunately I cannot make it publicly available at this time because it contains work from as-of-yet unreleased productions. But I am happy to provide it upon request.
Here is my old rigging/animation reel from 2008:
Thanks!
–Nathan Vegdahl
August 12th, 2010 at 14:02
This makes me want to request to see Nathan’s new reel just so that I can see parts of Project London and Sintel.
Also, the Durian site seems to be really slow today. o_O
August 12th, 2010 at 15:06
Yesterday either, Ton should kick the hoster’s butt!
August 12th, 2010 at 15:06
I want my very own Nathan! I can’t afford one now though
Maybe for Christmas.
August 12th, 2010 at 17:00
Oh so it’s not only terribly slow for me. Good to know
To even get to this page, I had to reload, like, 10 times. – and the time it was successfully loaded, it took forever to show up…
Oh well, awesome rig
I’m already curious for your updated one with Durian 
– I guess, you’ll wait with that ’till AFTER the true premiere, though…
August 12th, 2010 at 17:09
Maybe we should start an auction for Nathan. As usual on another popular auction-platform, I’ll start with a bid of 1 € for one week Nathan
And yes, I’ also be interested in the new demo-reel
And again yes: the site is not only slow, it’ s really dangerous. One might starve to death waiting for a new page.
August 12th, 2010 at 17:09
Wow all of a sudden, things go a LOT faster
August 12th, 2010 at 18:18
After seeing the pictures of Nathan with his Bunny Rabbits in previous postings, those scenes from Bug Buck Bunny take on a whole new meaning!
Nathan, if I hear of anything I will pass you name on.
August 12th, 2010 at 18:21
Your rigs make animation look like a easy task. Very good!
August 12th, 2010 at 23:00
Good luck Nathan! I hope someone with the ability to understand your value, also has the money to back it up!
August 13th, 2010 at 00:07
It would be great to have Nathan, Malefico and Tony Mullen to write a rigging book… We could have our very own Blender’s “Stop Staring” and “Body Language”!!! Maybe one day…
Good luck with your job search!!!
Cheers!
August 13th, 2010 at 00:28
Nathan, you want to come and help the Sintel Game Project? Well give you a couple of nickels and some peanuts!
August 13th, 2010 at 02:03
aww… i would like to have a nathan… but no money… can i pay you in hugs? i heard you like hugs =)
August 13th, 2010 at 02:51
Is it so hard to find work in the CG business?
August 13th, 2010 at 03:39
Haha, I can’t stop watching this xD
August 13th, 2010 at 04:14
I’ll take twelve
August 13th, 2010 at 04:30
First I thought they made an action figure of Nathan.
August 13th, 2010 at 07:37
It won’t be hard to find a job
August 13th, 2010 at 11:54
Nathan, If you make some learning material for rigging, I would pay a relatively silly amount of money to buy it. So would many other ppl I think. Hope all goes well for you mate!
August 13th, 2010 at 13:19
I’d buy a nathan rigging dvd
August 13th, 2010 at 15:30
Me too! I sent Nathan a fairly long letter suggesting he look at
http://www.kickstarter.com/start#sell-stuff
and get hisself some serious funding for running a class or something.
August 13th, 2010 at 17:00
Nathan, youre my role model on riggin’… I really hope that you’ll find a good job from some good place on earth. But I also hope that they will not make you too busy so you’ll have little time to continue making some stuff on internet…
Finland would be a good place to try find a job, most of young people here understands english…
August 13th, 2010 at 17:34
Le@ndro: Rather than to see another boring Blender book which nobody read or product material with. :p
I prefer to see Nathan and Malefico producing some juicy animations. =)
August 13th, 2010 at 22:06
Fortunately, I live in Maple Valley. About a half hour east of Seattle. Unfortunately, I do not possess much money but again, fortunately, I’ll be getting my tax return and Washington State Need Grant within the next couple months. How much you charge for your lessons? I am very interested in animation and character rigging. I’ve taught myself a lot but nothing to the extent of what I have seen you do. I’m sure you would consider me a noob lol.
August 14th, 2010 at 07:05
Yeh Nathan spend some time making a rigging dvd or book, theres nothing like that for Blender and your probubly the best at it. It seems logical!
Id definitely buy it and I know others who would as well.
August 14th, 2010 at 07:07
Do you like root beer and singing? I may have a job for you. It doesn’t pay much though.
August 14th, 2010 at 13:17
Sorry for the double post but I like Le@ndro and Alex Delderfield’s ideas (about creating a training book or dvd – especially with your experience using 2.5/2.6 for character rigging/animation/etc in a studio environment.)
Also, if I had a resume like yours, I’d be mailing it to as many studios as I could buy postage stamps for – especially as it seems you are very flexible and willing to travel.
Cheers!
August 14th, 2010 at 14:14
Nathan, don’t waste time with tutorials, produce some great animations, please!
August 15th, 2010 at 19:51
@Robbie Losee:
Thanks much!
@Everyone:
Yeah, I would love to make some educational material about rigging. I’ll give the kickstarter thing a try at some point. But I’d like to try the freelance thing for a bit first, to get some business experience under my belt.
August 15th, 2010 at 20:30
Any chance TON could look at a suibscription service to sponsor developers and artists?
I certainly fork out at least £10 a month, maybe more to say thanks for all the good work.
regards
TFS
August 16th, 2010 at 01:12
Sadly I’m in the wrong industryand can’t afford to support you right now but good luck Nathan – you deserve a great success
August 19th, 2010 at 20:05
I support you to keep up. and go for what you are.
August 21st, 2010 at 12:48
The Australian election campaign 2010 appears to me to be a waste of time in that apparently none of the big parties are campagning on the one vital issue issue – the re-nationalisation and restoring of Australia’s greatest banking asset, the Bank of the Commonwealth. None of the other issues are of any consequence by any comparison.
October 8th, 2010 at 15:51
Stumbled into this site by chance but I’m sure glad I clicked on that link. You definitely answered all the questions I’ve been dying to answer for some time now. Will definitely come back for more of this. Thank you so much
November 23rd, 2010 at 17:09
Hi Nathan
this is murthy from India. i’m rigging artist. i use Maya software for rigging.
i want to be good rigger in international stand. please tell me how i will reach my aim. please help my career. my English is problem so please understand
thanks u so munch. bye
February 25th, 2011 at 04:16
You are my aspiration , I possess few web logs and often run out from to post : (.