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.

Indiana Jones

I never understood why Indiana Jones had such an awesome logo but Lucas just seemed to drop the ball when it came to the on screen titles, all of which are Trajan. So I figured I would give Indiana a once over and created this, with a little help from Andrew Kramer's Ancient Titles tutorial at videocopilot.net.

Harry Potter!

Finished up my After Effects retraining! This is only a small (severely adjusted tutorial) piece I did. Don't worry more is yet to come ^____^

Where The Wild Things Are

Another awesome broadcasting project from my buddy and fellow SCAD MFA Seth :)

Gingerbread Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

An ad for the Baking Industry of New Zealand. Some awesome animation and conceptual work here :)

(on a side note: RuTube? the russian YouTube?)

A Series of Awesome After Effects

I decided to take a break from my After Effects retraining (I'm currently working on learning the program more in depth), to watch Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Not the best movie per se but the end credits are just some amazing After Effects work.

New Blackhaus Poster

I'm really digging this redesign I did for my Blackhaus typeface promotional poster.

Jabba the Scott

From Blue Milk Special

"Back in ‘76 the original Jabba the Hutt was to appear in a scene right before Han transports Luke, Obi-Wan and the droids off Tatooine. Jabba was always meant to be a monster of some kind, and at the time the special effects just weren’t living up to Lucas’ filthy imagination. Northern Irish actor Declan Mulholland played the role of Jabba as either a stand in for a stop-motion creation to be added in post production, or to wear a mask over his head. Neither ended up happening, and Lucas scrapped the scene."

I didn't know this until I read it on their site so I thought I would share. :)

Fair?

I saw this in Baltimore last Sunday. The question is: Is guerilla marketing ethical? No question that Boost mobile may have to pay a fine for there work here but is it fair to graffiti artists that try to express themselves to in their work while some companies do work like this to sell themselves as "urban" and "cool?" Ji Lee uses graffiti work to point out the contradiction of personal vs. corporate work, not to sell it and he works for fucking google! No doubt I would love to work with Ji, we are completly on the same book.