Typography video by DD14
by Clarence Lee
Check out the typography videos done by DD14 students in term 2.
VFS - DD @ Adobe site
by Bun Lee
Hey Gang,
Some of you might rememeber there was a one man shooting “crew” here in our campus back in April. Here is the link to the print press on Adobe site, we sent them a selection of videos but they end up using only one of them…
Petra infographic
by Danny Chan
DD14 Bashar Alaeddin’s information graphic about Petra, a recently designated wonder of the world, is featured at Maga Design Group’s blog as the Map O’ The Day #82. The infographic was created for his term two Interactive Design course to present the influences that shaped Petra.
2009 Salazar Student Awards
by Danny Chan
Congratulations to Stefan Ramirez Pérez, from DD14, who won at the recent GDC/BC Salazar Student Awards event. Venice, his term two chroma key talking head video, was selected by a panel of distinguished design professionals as the winner of the Web Design and Interactive Media category. Other finalists included the team of Aaron Chiesa, Henry Sukarya, Lisa Temes, Toru Kageyama (DD12) for their motion infographic, Iran: Nation of Bloggers, and Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, also from DD14, for his kinetic typography project, Century Schoolbook: Piano 2.0.
DD Slam - Hockey Team Identity
by Clarence Lee
DD Slam has been a great success last Friday, thanks for everyone who participated in this event. Steel Toes (Team of Andrew Schulz, Ileana Hierro Del Valle, Amy Inkster, Marisa Torres Rodriguez, Kasey Lum and Heather Lee) ended up winning the 8 hours contest…congratulation!!! I would also like to say thank you to Adobe for sponsoring the prize, each member of the winning team will receive Premiere Pro CS4. Please click the image and check out their hard works.
“Monday” @ 2008 Haydenfilms Festival
by Danny Chan
“Monday”, a motion piece by Jadyn Aguilar (DD09), has been selected to participate in the 2008 Haydenfilms Online Film Festival. It is one of two films representing Canada from a total of 63 short films chosen from around the world. The festival is running through February 10, 2009.
http://www.haydenfilms.com/Festivals/Fest2008/film/46
Note the $1000 cash prize just for voting.
“It is now the time to have your family and friends come support your film and be part of Haydenfilms online community. We are awarding a Viewer Appreciation Award of $1,000 cash prize to a Haydenfilms.com member selected at random who casts his or her vote for at least 10 of our finalists. The voting rule is as followed:
The Haydenfilms online community will vote on the films to decide the final four. Our interactive voting mechanism has been designed to eliminate all bias votes, which means this is not a popularity contest. Each member must vote on a minimum of ten films in order for their votes to count.”
Polaris in Computer Arts 156
by Danny Chan
Polaris, Yaniv and Nic’s final project (DD10), is featured on the disc that is distributed with the December 2008 issue of Computer Arts (#156).
MOD Identity Package
by Jaime Arvizu Bonnells
For my final project I decided to take an external brief which was provided by CTV Toronto, the objective of the project was to redesign the identity package for one of Muchmusic’s show called Much On Demand (MOD). So here it is! tell me what you think about it.
Voyager @ Motionographer
by Bun Lee
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!
DD Slam - Edge of Space
by Clarence Lee
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.
Self promotion and learning.
by Jamie Peterson
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.
bloggin’ again. yay!
by Nicolas Alexander
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…
Multi-touch Crop
by Brett Forsyth
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.
ISOLA in HOW magazine
by Danny Chan
ISOLA, Suhyang Jung’s final project (DD09), 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.
Miniature Rocket
by Nicolas Alexander
Miniature Rocket was created by myself and Yaniv Fridman as our final project in the Digital Design program at VFS. The objective was to create an identity and a launching campaign for a new design studio that would specialize in motion graphics. The launch campaign collateral includes a website and stationery material. A one minute video called Polaris was also created as an alternative to the traditional demo reel for the company. Combining 2D, 3D animation, stop motion and classical animation, it is inspired by, and references the art and design of the 20th Century.
Update : featured on Motionographer & No Fat Clips!!!
visit the website at www.miniaturerocket.com for more information or see the video in hi-resolution.
We are also working on our personal portfolios which should be finalized in the next few days:
R.U.Reel?
by Ryan Uhrich
Hi guys, My name is Ryan Uhrich from DD07. It’s coming up to 1 year since I graduated from VFS, and man, the time has flown by. First off I’d like to congratulate DD10 and wish them my best. I’m sure you’re all super tired by this point.
Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. I recently created my 2008 portfolio site along with a new showreel. I wanted to share it with all of you. It’s a mix of student work along with commercial broadcast projects I did while working at THANKYOU in Denmark. I just finished it in time for the upcoming ADAA event being held in New York City. Myself along with Marcos Ceravolo are fortunate enough to be finalists in the motion graphics category this year for our final project Duelity. So, wish us luck. 
Fingers crossed.
To the other DD classes to come, keep on rockin’ it.
Best,
Ryan