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Type Wars

SHAPES

3D Compositing 2

3D Compositing

I’m trying out this 3D compositing stuff… It’s pretty interesting and new to me. Here is a little test, an add for the color black.

vidoteca id’s

This is a very experimental broadcast package that I did in the past month here at VFS. There is more focus on concept and creating a feeling rather than pure motion design, although there is a lot of after effects technical work done to achieve this graphically.

Target Animation

Sound Effector

I’ve been playing around with Cinema 4d this term, here’s just another assignment using the sound effector, linking it to diferent frequences and then bringing the four of those variations together in After Effects of course, I think that AE is always a must!

Hello, Goodbye.

Minority Reportish

vidoteca

DD13 Trailer

C4D Testing

I tried out some caustic lighting tests for a logo animation, worked it into After Effects to blend it with the same animation without the lighting and played around with color. Still trying to get the hang of Cinema 4D animation. Pretty fun stuff!

First slightly successful Cinema 4D Modeling

I’m quite happy with my first attempt at creating something in Cinema 4D, it’s an amazing tool and I will hopefully have more time to improve.

Aaaaahh!

Pretty Loaded

Check out this preloader library, it’s pretty sick!

Photoshtop

Check out this Adbusters-ish Photoshop work in the subway in Berlin. The look and feel is amazing, very witty and strong message, it’s like an inside joke kind of deal, a geeky designer joke but with style. Let’s hope the young 12 year old german girls get it.

Type2 Final Video

2odʎʇ

We’ve started our Typography Project for this term, Dewi, Christian, Alex and I will be making a short video explaining the history of the font Meta by Erik Spiekermann, here is a lookframe I’ve just finished.

Talking Head(s)

ABCED

Talking Head

I am currently working on my Talking Head project for VFS. It consists of a 30 second video where we have to use the lower third for information, kind of like a news anchor, and animate things in the background as he talks about a chosen theme. I will be talking about sneakers, here is a frame from the animatic.

DD Slam

This was a one day project here at VFS. They call it a slam, you get a brief in the morning and have to finish the project that same afternoon, From story, concept, visuals, animation and sound, everything was done in about 7 to 8 hours.

Flash!

Elephantroski

We went rapidly through the history of modern art and graphic design and we each did a brief presentation on a specific era. I talked about Constructivism, my classmates talked about several different ism’s and we also each had to design an animal that represents and has the visual tone of the era in art and design we presented.

You see, form in the manipulation of idea or content, if you prefer. And that’s exactly what designers are, manipulators of content.

This is a really good interview that I read thanks to Robin, my Visual Communications Teacher here at VFS. It goes to show you that having fun or being playful and witty as you work is fundamental, at least in Rand’s eyes.

Paul Rand was America’s leading modern graphic designer in the disciplines of advertising, book, and corporate design. He studied at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Art Students League (where George Grosz was his teacher), all in New York City, but was primarily self-taught in the ways of modernism. In the early 1930s, he became a devoted follower of the European moderns and employed their economical and functional methods in his editorial design for Esquire and Apparel Arts. In 1941, he joined the William H. Weintraub Advertising Agency as its chief art director and proceeded to change the look and feel of American advertising, introducing a unique blend of wit, humor, and art-based aesthetics for massmarket clients. A master of many disciplines, he moved from editorial and advertising to corporate and packaging design, creating identities for IBM, Westinghouse, Cummins Engine, NeXT, Enron, and USSB. He is the author of three books, Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art (Yale, 1985), Design, Form, and Chaos (Yale. 1993), and From Lascaux to Brooklyn (Yale, 1996). He passed away in 1996. This interview was conducted in 1990.
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Motion Design 1

Here it is, my final project for Motion Design 1 at VFS. We had to figure out a story, learn how to film, animate, track, everything, in about 8 weeks, but we know it’s all done in about only 1! I wanted to experiment with making graphics and film live in the same environment and also play around with some motion tracking, animation, masking and sound.

Spare some Character Design?

So this is the character I came up with for the assignment we had to turn in for story boarding at the end of term 1 in VFS. Anyone guess where I got my inspiration from? I just need to give him a name, any suggestions?

Doxology

Found this browsing around the web, this was Michael Langan’s thesis for the animation program at the Rhode Island School of Design. The overall atmosphere of this production is what to me, holds everything together. Great cuts from scene to scene, great audio, really smart log line too, kind of sais it all: “An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars, and God.”

Here’s the link to the entire movie. Enjoy!

First Blog Up!

So this blog was actually an assignment for Web Authoring 1 here at VFS. I found it to be one of the most interesting assignments of all since we had to create it from scratch, xhtml, css, graphics, and make it all work through this wonderful open source app named Wordpress. The other good thing about creating this is that I actually feel like updating it with a bit of everything, work, play, anything interesting, fun and worth actually writing a post about. Enjoy and come back for updates!