16 Oct 2008
Check check check it out! Another infographics video from DD hit the Motionographer website under the student section! Jaime….. this is posted from your Vimeo account! Why is that I have to found this information from the internet!!!
Post it here! dude!
12 Oct 2008
Thought this was cool.
http://vector-art.blogspot.com/2008/10/typolution.html
2 Oct 2008
 
First a little background;Â My name is Simon Haiduk, I graduated in Aug. 2007 with DD07. Before DD, I was heavily into painting, and when I came to VFS I wanted to expand my skills with digital tools to further the visions into motion, while also learning some other fun stuff. Since I graduate I haven’t done much motion graphics, but went back to painting, and getting more into digital painting with Corel Painter X.. sooo fun! anyone who has a Wacom should get Painter.
However…the image above is a link to an draft version of a motion project I’m working on for a documentary on Quigong ( sort of like Tai Chi ). I feel a little rough around the edges with the motion, so I’m open to critiques. Keep in mind this is still a ‘draft’.. you’ll notice audio missing on the front end. I’m excited about this project because they’ve hired me to do all of the animation for this short film, and another full feature they are doing next year. It’s all in the same vein of art that I do which focuses on spiritual energy systems. So I’m mentioning to you students so you know that holding out until you get ‘the right’ job to maintain your artistic integrity is possible.
I also wanted to invite you all to my art show opening on this Saturday, Oct. 4th. It’s from 8pm – 2am at The Fall, 644 Seymour St. just around the corner from VFS. I know how intense school is, so I encourage you to come out and take a break, enjoys some, art, live music, drinks, and edibles by Gorilla Food.
Showing art will be David Heskin, from Seattle, and myself. You can read more on my Blog if you’re interested. And below is a clip of Don Alder who will be performing at the show. Along with Gypsie Et La Fleur.
I hope to see you there.
2 Oct 2008
It’s been a successful DD slam last Friday, most of DD students participated on this event.
Special thanks to all the participants especially the actors Braun McAsh (Game design instructor), Leah Bancroft (DD08 student) and Tom Fedechko (Program manager), also the motion graphics instructors Bun Lee and Ron Serna who spent the time to shoot the green screen footage in the production studio after school last week.
Please click on image to view the motion piece.
26 Sep 2008
This might be a little late for term 3 students as I am sure your infographics are well on the way and just need some polishing by now 
(yeah right..!) but I suggest to anybody interested in infographics in general to pickup the newest Idn magazine.
Their new issue focusing on infographics is full of inspiring pieces of work from web, print & motion .The magazine features (info)-graphic designer Nicholas Felton, motion design studio PIC Agency for their amazing Kingdom titles, Superfad for their sprint commercial and many others. For people interested in web design involving infographics, they have a short interview with Jonathan Harris who is mostly into web information visualization, check out his web projects, especially “we feel fine” and his talk on TED.
Still into this term-3-love state of mind, the magazine also includes short articles/interview with title sequences giants Prologue and Richard Morrison.
I think its worth the 15 bucks but if your broke, it might be a good idea to ask faculty to get their hands on at least 1 copy for the school as I am sure this could help some people for the motion design 3 class to get fresh inspiration. Enough of that bridesmaids crap…
25 Sep 2008
Well I am not exactly sure what Nick is jealous of (I can’t even get ShadowBox working on my blog). But like Nick I (Jamie Peterson aka DD10Jamie) have been trying to revive a blog that got lost and died somewhere along the way. So far I have been writing about meatballs, new software and posting some of the work I have done that most people would never see unless it was posted on some small, biased blog. In an effort to motivate me to continue to post and to create something of a draw for people to visit I have been thinking of ways to add weekly or monthly features to my site. The first one that I have just unveiled is a series of tutorials ranging from Photoshop, Final Cut, After Effects and everything in between. The requirements for these tutorials are that the techniques or tricks I explain have to be something fun, interesting, new (not already available on the internet) and most importantly useful and practical.
This morning I am releasing the first tutorial, Melon-Chromatic, which will explain how to recreate the paint drip effect as seen in the new iPod Nano commercials. You can see a video of what you will be doing in the link below and if you visit my blog you can download the tutorial PDF and a completed project file. All you need to bring to the party is your own copy of After Effects. Sound good? Excellent. If you are a first or second term student don’t worry. I believe that I have written this in an easy enough way that you should be able to make something cool. And if you still don’t get it send me an email. If that doesn’t work, go ask Bun. If nothing else after you go through the tutorial you should have pretty thorough understanding of masks in After Effects.
Oh and I am going to ask for a favor. If you get a chance, please leave a comment or email me with your impressions, comments, complaints. Thanks. One last thing. Bookmark, delicious, twitter, facebook or whatever you do to remember dope websites please do that. Okay that’s it, really this time. Go make some cool stuff.
23 Sep 2008
Hey DDs, guys, people, you…
Having graduated from the dd program last august, I found myself a couple of weeks later, in a very unfamiliar situation: boredom. Trying to find something else to do than applying for jobs, I realized that I was surprisingly very jealous of Jamie Peterson. Not for his muscular body, but for graduating and still blogging like crazy and cooking meat balls. Quickly admitting to myself that I will never cook meatballs, I decided to redesign my dead blog once again (I know it’s the 5th time, whatever!). so its up… goodmorningstranger.com/blog . It’s pretty empty right now but come and say hi when u have a second. oh! and thanks toPablo from DD09 who did the code…
11 Sep 2008
Check out the work of DD11 students Morgan Roddick and Jae Ho Yoo. I am pretty sure it almost killed them but it’s pretty cool what they got working.
8 Sep 2008
ISOLA, Suhyang Jung’s final project, has won a student merit award in the HOW Promotion Design competition. Her work can be seen in the October 2008 issue of HOW, a prominent graphic design magazine. ISOLA is the branding and packaging design for three lines of bath and beauty products targeted at urban working women.
