photoshoot with jeremy.

my aunt let me borrow a camera: jeremy and i went and had a party in the park. he still had to do his assignment for class so i modeled. go team.

photography

i am enrolled in a photography class. once a week we have to turn in an assignment meeting specific criteria: this set is for the ones that are due this week

napkin doodles

i went out this evening with some friends to see another friend play at a small cafe - while she was performing i was doodling on a napkin. i was gonna bring my sketchbook but i didn't want to appear too anti-social. although i suppose someone drawing on a napkin looks more so...

posters and logo concept

here are some posters for a concert that shaun barrowes is doing and i was working on a logo for a little bit - but i got super busy working on my senior film project before finishing up the project.

i'm bored

my roomie has a girl over and i've been exiled into my office for the evening. i'm bored.

'kites' cloud effects

these are some clips that i have been working on for the BYU animated film, 'kites'

i included the original reference shot and also the shot after i had put in the cloud effects that i created in after effects (these clips are at a lower frame rate to keep the file size down)

documentary 'nebulas'

i have been working on a documentary with BYU: there is a scene where we enter the creative genius of the subject of the documentary... basically the shot was described as a blobby nebula where energy travels into it and then out. not a lot to work with, but i like a good challenge... this one wasn't quite the direction that they were looking for. if you ask me, it was too cool. the following are tests that i have been working on lately... we went from 'blobby nebulas' to 'mixing colors of cake batter in a swirl' - this is what i came up with [the spins are a little fast, but they're tests]

free time

so i have been busy doing all sorts of projects and haven't had a lot of free time to do my own stuff... today i went to the park because the weather was too nice not to go and i did some drawing and then painted it up on photoshop...

cd release poster

these are some poster/banner pieces that i designed for shaun barrowes

and apparently the reds that i chose for the lettering are too bad A for blogger to handle...

website design

so i've been playing around with a website design for this talented musician. he's gonna be big. this is basically just a backgound - all the info will appear within the boxes (hence the muted colors)

more cosmo logos

i feel best about this set of potential logos. they are more simplified and cleaner than the others as of yet. i figured it was time to cut out cosmo's face cause it was looking stoops.

grunge colors

i felt like posting this little number i used for the dress of the model in the post 'inspiration' cause every time i look at it the more and more i like it which is generally not the case with art one's made.

logos

these are some concept logos that i did - i was provided with the basic piano key shape to work with and i ran with it: it's called musical chapters (i can't say anything else about it but it's gonna be cool.) the final one is the logo that is going to be used

100th post

for my 100th post i am publicly announcing the working title of my BFA project: 'concept'

i like shoes.

i realized something about myself today. i like shoes. i have various pairs but i like to buy more. in fact - i think i have bought a pair a month (and some months i buy two purr): i was thinking about a story about a kid that spends all day imagining about how amazing his life would be wearing the new shoes he mail ordered - imagining about being able to fly to space in them, fight aliens, cross enemy lines to save the USA!, beat julia childs in a cook off, beat up rachael ray, slam dunk the length of the court - and when the kids shoes finally arrive... he can do all of those things with his new pair of shoes (not because the shoes are magical or anything, but because new shoes are that cool.) i think it would be a lot of fun to work on a story like that - a lot of room for fun, and you think a big moral is coming at the end (material goods don't bring you happiness - but nay, oft times they do.) but it's not. the moral is... new shoe's rock.

i'm sure i'll expound on this idea more as i work out more specific ideas. i will definitely make a pic of the kid using his new shoes to propel himself into space!

inspiration

so i was cruising the net and i ran across this amazing portfolio - i seriously love this kinda stuff and love to think about turning this style into animation... it'd be BRILLIANT! so i figured before i could animate something like that i would have to learn to create it using photoshop and all of that fun stuff: here is my semi-attempt at mimicking it: i mostly played around but didn't save any files, this is basically the only 'composition' that i did (i bummed the model off of google images search - props to them.)

i was playing around with the placement of the 'inc' and couldn't decide which i liked better...

check petya savova's portfolio here:

http://www.behance.net/addicted2be

rocker

this is some green screen footage that i found on the internet - i have been trying to get my hands on some but it's surprisingly hard to come by on the internet for free... (i found it on a british magazine computer arts webpage) i guess most of the things that i'm teaching myself will be showcasing this rocker.

and i haven't put any music on these lately - so... i did. i know you all missed it. feel good compliments of the gorillaz

dude.

sorry i haven't posted in awhile - i've been busy living life as opposed to drawing it. i also have a couple free-lance projects that i am working on in which i can't post. you know the drill. i did this drawing while watching 'america's best dance crew' on mtv. like it love it gotta have it. and i just colored him up during some free time

oh yeah! i finished a cut of my demo reel - i'll obviously have a bunch of new stuff that i will have to incorporate in soon, but we'll get there when we get there: i'm going to figure out how to get the reel online so you can check it out. it's 3 gigs though... it may take me awhile to figure that out - till then, request one and i'll hook you up

building jump

i made these sweet buildings in photoshop and i decided that i really wanted to use them in an after effects projects. the end.

golden axe revisited

this was the very first shot that i actually worked on using after effects - it was for a student film called 'the golden axe' (now that it's no longer being worked on i would like to get something off my chest: i hate the name. 'the golden axe'... really? we couldn't do better than that? no me gusta.) anyway - it was the opening/establishing shot of the film - there were going to be some matte paintings and all sorts of nifty little artistic things with flavor that were going to make this movie cool. somewhere along the lines, the vision got lost - and therefore the movie lost momentum because it was no longer cool nor fun and blah. dead. anyway - i wanted to revisit that original shot that i could never really get down because of lack of knowledge (the first one i did, i didn't know you could animate a camera and i used position keyframes to make everything fly past the camera... it was sketch.) i feel i pretty much could go back and do that shot in about an hour as opposed to the original 10 or 11 hours i did the first time. i kinda played with the '300 effect' while crossing the bridge: the stupid little boy on the bridge is a place holder for the animated boy. also, i would probably change the timing as we approach the mountain so that it's not so fast. i sufficiently proved to myself though that i could easily do that shot if i were asked now which is nice because that means i have taught myself something. go team.