Hey Everyone, ( Justin Kohse here, thanks to nick for letting me post under his account)
I entered a contest a little while back called “the directors chair contest”. You basically make a 15 second commercial and show your scene movie card in some way, shape, or form. A friend and myself came up with a character known as the “Mustache Vigilante” aka: Detective Frank Cleamon. The contest works by views and votes and we could really use your help!
we had a ton of footage, way more the 15 seconds worth, so we compiled it into a longer “uncut” version, but with no scene card. Just some old fasioned crime fighting with a mustache.
“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.
“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.”
“I had the great privilege to present a technology that “may or may not be part of any Adobe solution in the future” at Adobe MAX 2008 in Milan. This specific project is called “Infinite Images” and is being worked on by Shai Avidan; yes, the one that brought us Seam Carving (better known as Content Aware Scaling) in Adobe Photoshop CS4.”
My favourite time to shoot photos is either an hour before sunrise or sunset. This period is often referred to as goldenhour or magic hour. The light is more dramatic at these times, and yes, magical. Try not to set your camera to automatic white balance (use daylight instead) during magic hour as this will remove some of the warmth in your photos. If you shoot RAW, you can make adjustments after.
“FluidTunes is an app that lets you control iTunes from a webcam. The main screen looks like CoverFlow, with the image from your camera image lightly visible behind it. You can swipe across the album covers to navigate, or swipe the large forward and back buttons for finer control.”
“Using a webcam and flash, we’ve taken our Papervision character from the desktop to the desk. A new and exciting way to interact with your flash content.”
hello!! so it’s my first time posting on the ddblog and i don’t really know why because it’s a wonderful place. Hope everyone is doing well and feeling happy on this beautiful monday!
I recently came across some calligraphy that caught my eye (and it’s handcrafted! hooray!) - thought you guys would enjoy.
betsy dunlap is the artist’s name and you can see her stuff at http://betsydunlap.googlepages.com/bdunlap - just a small selection but worth a look.
I was looking for the presentation for yesterday’s VanUE presentation from IDEO’s Gentry Underwood. Best I could come up with was some notes on his talk (it is actually for his talk that he gave at Web 2.0 Expo NYC but it sounds close enough).
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.
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 well last month we compiled 25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials, So you can Try this 3d effects in your next design Project.
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
Abduction
Capture an entire web page or part of a web page and save it as an image.
Design:
ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
Pencil
Pencil is a Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching.
MeasureIt
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
Browser Enhancements:
Adblock Plus
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
dragdropupload
Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries.
Split Browser
This splits the content area of the browser window as you like.
DownThemAll
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
Mouse Gestures Redox
Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.
Grab and Drag
Enables Adobe Acrobat-style grab and drag scrolling, Flick gestures, and Momentum scrolling.
Save Session
With Save Session, you can choose to save the current session and close Firefox for the next startup.
This works best if you USUALLY want to launch Firefox with your default homepages or blank page but SOMETIMES want to start with the previous session.
“This graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and plotting values on a two by two grid. Plus you’ll get a basic grid for drafting sitemaps or anything else that might come up.
These pages are great for sketching, but also work well when producing high fidelity drawings. The title bar and grid lines are non-photo blue, so you can easily remove them when scanned. The thick black lines for boxes will show in scans and are 2px wide to match the weight of Pentel Sign Pens.”
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!!!
First a little background; 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.
