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.
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…
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.
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…
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 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.
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.
“Ajax and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) have revolutionized the way users interact with Web sites. However, documenting the design of any page that uses Ajax is a challenge, because the page—and, more importantly, components on the page—can have different states, depending on how users interact with the page’s components.”
These drawings were created using the Graffiti application within Facebook. I thought it was timely to share them since The Dark Knight is still doing well in the theatres, and I’m looking forward to see the Watchmen movie next year.
If any of you are fans of the fantastic This American Life, you might want to enter their t-shirt contest. The deadline is Monday July 28th. Information is at their web site.
Hey guys, For the few of you who might not know what Threadless is, it’s a t-shirt company that prints limited versions of designs created by different designers & artists. There’s an initial period when you send it and they can either take it or reject it, and then it goes public for people to vote and comment on it.
Well, I had an illustration that sat on the back of my drive for months and then I decided to send it out of curiosity, I just got an email saying that it got selected for public voting, so, check it out and tell me what you think.
Yes, 2D animation is basically drawing frame by frame. And you can pretty much called it ‘Stop Motion’ as the way they were done. But what about having this frame by frame drawing on a wall and then taking picture from it.
It is hard to imagine how long it’ll take to get this 7 minutes 26 secs done.
“Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client.
We’ve put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail.”
So I’ve been following the “made-in-usa” DMCA bill the Canadian Parliament have been trying to pass under the public radar for a few months now, and it’s been hard trying to explain why it’s such a big deal to people. Thankfully, Gordon Duggan of Appropriation Art has created an amazing comic chronicling the fight up until now. I recommend this read to anybody who has any sort of interest in digital media whether its recreationally or professionally (…ahem…). I mean, the Canadian/US border already has claimed the right to search all data storage that passes to the US (scary shit if you ask me). Get involved and check it out!
Also, on a interaction note, the fact that a comic can have external-linkable assets (or on any PDF for that matter) is a sweet design choice to keep in mind, especially with eBook readers on the fringe of the mainstream present, as well as the fact that they’ll soon be gobbled up by the cellphone just like everything else. Think about it. ttfn!
”I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages.”
(yeah right..!) but I suggest to anybody interested in infographics in general to pickup the newest Idn magazine.
Fingers crossed.
