SQUIRREL!

It isn't just the animation that is always amazing with Pixar but also their writers and sense of humor. I love the"SQUIRREL!" parts of the movie Up. How many talking dog movies have you ever seen? Most of them seem to be too close to personifying the dog as a person rather than as a dog with doggie traits.

Knockout 2

This animation is a remake of my original second part of my Knockout Poster project which uses Adobe After Effects to create an animation of the poster. In the animation I chose to have the poster become the climax of a dynamic introduction that portraits Knockout as a world champion boxer. Using the sidescroll text sequence of the name in combination with the iconic Rocky Balboa theme song. The end of the movie is the pasting of the broadsheet and hanging of the gloves to bring a cohesive whole to the piece and it’s connection to the poster.

Pareidoodle

The above is just a doodle I did with Pareidoodle. Pareidoodle-Drawing Conclusions, is part of my master thesis Play and The Discovery of New Ideas. Pareidoodle is a new way of drawing ideas in a digital world. Based on the psychological phenomena known as Pareidolia, where a vague or random stimulus is perceived as significant. This phenomena is seen in common examples such as seeing images or faces in clouds, the Virgin Mary on a tortilla or even hearing hidden messages on music albums played in reverse. By using random marks and colors the user’s mind begins to make new connections to what they are drawing on and alongside in the seemingly meaningless and instill them with a sense of meaning through their own hand.

You can try Pareidoodle for yourself or even download a desktop version for Mac or Windows, here. Enjoy!

Good Afternoon Jumpers

Just thought I would share this because it ran through my head yesterday as I drove down to Orange, Virginia to see three good friends go skydiving for one of their birthdays. I'm not a fan of open heights but after seeing it and the safety that goes into skydiving I'm seriously reconsidering my position. I think I may have to jump out of a plane And you have to love Pixar, the animation, the stories and their great sense of humor. :)

Cruz Skateshop

Cruz Skateshop is an independently owned shop in San Francisco specializing in Roller Derby and Skateboard stuff. Owned by Sandy Cruz (aka Ms. Motley Cruz). Sandy is also my brother Gordon's girlfriend and they both work at running the shop together. Last May they came to Savannah, GA to celebrate my graduation from SCAD's graphic design graduate program. While they were visiting me they asked if I would illustrate a graphic for a t-shirt for the shop. They try to do two graphics every few months by different artists. This is what I came up with. Gordon also messaged me that the graphic which I finished up this past week and handed off to him is also being used as an ad on the Derby News Network. So stoked! :)

What a Beautiful Autumn-to-Summer Day?

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This was a ingenious personal follow up for me since last week I had dinner with a loved one who said, "I only watch Fox News because it is fair and unbiased." I think I may be related to seriously delusional people @_@.

Wells Fargo

A redesign for the Wells Fargo home page using, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Spry components, and Flash. I began by visiting half a dozen banking sites and found many to be very plain. The site picks up on the red and gold colors of the logo and utilizes the graphic element of the square. Inspired by Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie the squares represent interactivity and in all cases of interconnection the result is another square. Visit the site here. Please note, as of now the links go nowhere but you can see the different states of control that take place.

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.