There's Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself

My version of The Scarecrow from Batman Begins. From sketch, to stitch to execution. It is not true to the movie, because well let's face it if you do true to the movie it falls flat. Why? Because you do not have a film crew, lighting crew, fx artists, make-up... That is why I don't go for making it look real. I go for making it look sexy. The mask also glows-in-the-dark, a direction I got from the party theme and the Scarecrow LEGO minifig.

You can see some photos of my process and the result here.

The Dark Knight 2

This is a redesign of an earlier work I did while a student in the grad program at SCAD. I've taken several weeks to truly teach myself After Effects from the ground up as well as doing a multitude of online tutorials.

The original premise of this title sequence was designed and executed several months before the release of the movie. In researching for the piece I found my inspiration in the poster of The Joker writing Why so serious? in blood on a window, in which the viewer is looking through at him.

I decided that since this movie was less about Batman and more about The Joker that the opening sequence should push that. Much in the same way that Saul Bass worked the opening sequence for a film in order to impress the mood of the film to the audience.

Many thanks goes to the excellent work and teaching of Andrew Kramer over at VideoCopilot.net.

Enjoy!

Lightsaber Technologies

With the increase of digital technologies and entertainment, the need for an animated logo is higher than ever. Movies, TV, Broadcast, Video Games all use animated logos. But how do we make something more conceptual than just spinning, zooming or fading in and out? I wanted to create an interesting and conceptual logo reveal so I created this. Lightsaber Technologies, where Jedi go to get their lightsabers fixed when they can't do it (the Jedi IT dept). And yes I know this is WAY off canon, but if you know me you know I'm a huge Star Wars fan.

Tapestry

This was a first round logo for my cousin's music group. As I was designing the logo I envisioned how it could be animated like this. Tapestry is a Christian music group from upstate New York comprised of five women. Their choice of name was that a tapestry requires each unique thread to be woven with the others into an intricately designed creation. The logo design was built directly from this concept as the threads weave with each other to create the shapes of the letterforms and the logo itself. Even though the logo isn't finalized I still wanted to create my vision for the animation.

The End

This is a pseudo teaser trailer for a made up movie called "Exterminatus" (and if you get the term you are a geek, and I love you for it). It is comprised of a meshing together of four different tutorials from Andrew Kramer's videocopilot.net (definitely check out the site if you are into learning motion graphics and After Effects). As I did the tutorials I just thought "I wonder what these would look like together?" So I went ahead and did it, with a couple additions of my own. Enjoy.

The song seemed appropriate being Smashing Pumpkins "The End Is The Beginning Is The End."
The typeface used is Electric Lady (B-29 Superfortress) by fellow SCAD MFA grad and aspiring typeface designer Derek Black.