Updated website and more to follow

Sure it takes about 3 years but the site (ericreimer.com) is renewed and I've freshened up the sketches section and added an entertainment design section that's (unfortunately) password protected to guard against copyright difficulties with the big D. Contact me directly if you want/need access. The above image is a portion of a previz sketch of an imgage I completed for Pixie Hollow. I'd love to share the full version and more but must do so judiciously... so let me know. Also look for more later this month on a certain long abandoned project. I'm trying to get into the habit of making posts here a once monthly thing.

Hi All,
I've temporarily removed my disney Blog posts to so I can make sure I have proper permission to show what I've worked on my personal blog space. I'll repost them if and when I'm sure that I can!
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The 2009 TL in beziers

This posting is absurdly late, especially considering I don’t work for Honda anymore. In April of 2008 I moved from Honda to a position as an illustrator/designer with Disney’s Interactive Media Group. Honda is a great company and I still miss my co-workers there but Disney beckoned and the chance to create for that company was too good to pass up. This is the last (or nearly the last) vector automotive illustration that I did while at Honda of the then unreleased Acura TL. Personally I like it though I understand its new design irked some of the purists and fans of the previous TL. My car aficionado friends were jealous, however, when they learned I created this piece months before any images were officially released, so the buzz and anticipation for this vehicle was huge in their circles. The website will have to undergo some changes to accommodate the new personal and professional work I’ve done. Stay tuned.

New Degree of Realism with Vectors

I love the styling on the new accord, which is probably why they're selling a ton of these things while other manufacturers flounder. That and it's a Honda. The respect I've developed for this company over the past two and a half years is profound, especially coming from me, a non-car guy. I've also been pleased with the realism I've been able to get from illustrator lately. Let me know what you think.

Vector Detail

Long overdue post of some of the recent work to come out of Honda. Used here as always with permission.

Vector Coworkers

Mwahaahaaa! No one is safe from becoming fodder for the graphics library. Especially the cute intern on the right. Actually I'm most pleased with how the lady on the left turned out. She took me seriously when I described her "motivation" as a ticked off customer phoning in her complaints. She looked so stern and so cross that I had to soften her expression lest she burn holes in the viewer with her withering look. Also, I made her outfit sans reference--hooray for me. Just another post with some of the more lighthearted (less technically intense) stuff that I get to do often enough, and wish I was doing when I'm up to my neck in graphically intense modules about gears, pulleys, and the timing belt. Expect posts on that intricate stuff soon. That and the story book which I've resumed, resolved to finish and self publish if need be.

shameless self promotion

I was tinkering (something I've been doing too little of lately). And came up with a promotional page or splash page by recombining some of the illustrations I've created at work, then shamelessly ripping off the ipod promo graphics (as if apple were the first to use hip sillouettes), a scene from the matrix, and adding a dash of my own branding--swoops and lions. I like the effect overall. Perhaps this'll replace my landing page in the not too distant future. This maintains my track record of posts once a month, my minimum. Heck, if I get some comments now and again I might just start posting weekly in a fit of hubris. If you want to see the original use I made of that figure with the interesting drapery study, check my web portfolio under "technical". The original is a boring composition but the drapery came off nicely. Took a refresher course in the subject from Marshall Vandruff recently--great as always.