There have been a few times now where people have commented that my photo on Twitter has confused them. I can see how something that full of awesome could be difficult to wrap your head around (and really, is there anything more awesome than Ron Jeremy dressed up like Mario?).
I am looking to my fellow Twitterati (tweeple?) to help me out. I have been in extra goofy mode recently, and snapped off a few possible pics to use. Leave a comment below and let me know which one you think would be fitting.
One of the projects I am working on this quarter is a quasi self-portrait. The fictionalized story is told through animatic still images. I was working on storyboards tonight, and I had an idea… Since I was planning on shooting/processing all of the photos to have a high contrast, Film Noir feel, why not try to recreate a silent movie feel?!
After some processing of the images and some tweaks in After Effects, this is the concept piece I will have to show to my professor:
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Timing is still getting tweaked to allow enough time for information to be understood, but not enough time to have the images get boring. Also, I am sorry for the small size. I am currently looking for a new video player, as WordTube is not giving me the features I am looking for.
My wife and I have this agreement from when we first started dating, where if I sat through Gone With The Wind, she would sit through the original Star Wars trilogy. I am a staunch opponent of GWTW, as it just seems like a bunch of silly to me. She had the gall to refer to my awesome Boba Fett sweatshirt as ugly, so you can guess where she stands on The Trilogy.
I have a funny feeling this is how my wife would describe the goings on of the Star Wars universe:
During the summer quarter of my Sophomore year in DAAP, we were given a kinetic type project. This method of animation has become very popular as of late, especially on NBC and in recent Ford commercials. I was never happy with the final results of my first foray in to kinetic type, and seeing it over and over again while watching television has lit the necessary fire underneath me to take another stab at combining sound, motion, and typography.
If you have not seen my original kinetic type piece, here it is:
While it is nice, it was never something that I felt represented my vision. One of the biggest problems was that since this was a school assignment, I felt that I needed to make this something that my professors would look favorably upon. I chose to ignore my gut feelings and went in a direction that I thought my professors would like. Yes, professors… plural. There were two different professors that were both grading this project, and at times their feedback would be in direct opposition of each other. I felt stuck in the middle, and after a sting of communication breakdowns, I simply threw up my hands in frustration.
The last third of the piece is my favorite, and it was almost done completely out of spite. In stead of trying to continue working in a visual language that I did not agree with, I decided to just have fun and let them give me whatever grade they wanted. It was when I finally stopped worrying about making my teachers happy and started making myself happy that I found satisfaction.
Instead of going back and redoing the same piece, I thought it would be beneficial to move on, learn from my mistakes, and make the next piece better than the last. I chose to use the song “No Sunshine” by Rhymefest. It is a remix of Michael Jackson singing the popular Bill Withers song. (Confused? You won’t be, after this video example…)
I will post updates on the process work, and as you can see this still has a long way to go. Not only does the rest of the song need to be roughed together, but I also have to add color, finer animations, extra details, and then overall tweaking. It will take a while to get this to a finished stage, but I am looking forward to seeing where it all takes me.
I almost fell over laughing the other day. For some reason an image of a Jewish gangsta popped in to my head, and I thought of challah. (For those that don’t know, challah is pretty much pronounced “holla”)
After a quick google search, I found an image that fit what I saw in my mind’s eye and made a quick motivational poster.
So, I am trying to get a nice assortment of pieces to put in my portfolio to send to potential employers, and I am kinda flipping out a little. I really want to start ding something with video and motion, but there has only been one real motion project from school and I am not happy with it. This wouldn’t be an issue, but all of the self-motivated video projects I had intended on completing this last quarter fell by the wayside. That leaves me with zero personal projects to offset the one disappointing project I have.
I could continue to look for web development coops. While the web side of things is something I enjoy, is not what I was intending on focusing on. I was hoping on branching out and exposing myself to new opportunities. While going on a coop is nice for networking, I feel that it should also be a chance for me to encounter things outside of my “normal” realm. I was really happy when we were working in After Effects, and I want to know if it is something I really want to do for a career. I don’t want to wonder “what if” when I graduate.
I don’t know, maybe this self-doubt is a good thing. I keep trying to better myself, so that is a plus.
I was trying to clean up some space on my hard drive, and I found a bunch of old screenshots I took back when I played World of Warcraft. It made me a little nostalgic… It is touch, since I really like MMOs, but I just do not have the time to invest in them to make it worthwhile.
Neil Fraser, a software engineer at Google, took 9 carefully selected cross sections from a MRI scan and glued them on wooden blocks to create a 3D representative model [fraser.name]. The result is a collection of 60 1-inch cubes, of wich 94 outside faces are simply varnished, and 266 internal faces feature a square slice of the MRI images. One can then “dig” into the brain to carve out custom shapes.
Using touch as well as the third dimension to explore 3D data is an interesting avenue, as alternative interfaces need to be explored as much as representation.
3D Typographic design is now more popular and we can notice a surge for 3D Type work on portfolio sites, Here we have collected 45 Beautiful 3D Typography Deisgns For Inspiration, I found these design realy inspiring, hope you will be inspired
rune guneriussen is a young norwegian photographer who photographs various products and pieces of
furniture in nature. the various shots feature lamps, chairs and telephones enacting scenes that are
reminiscent of animals, other wildlife and even humans. the objects take on characteristics that wouldn’t
normally be associated with them because of their juxtaposition to the nature environment.
