AJMF Poster Design

I guess this is an overdue post.. sdlkjfslfkjdlfkajlafkfml

Holiday Card Contest

This was such a last minute submission, I don't even know if they'll still count this as an entry, but oh well.

Let's see where this will go

And then came the head @ 3:30am. I need to take a shower.

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My shabby attempt at creating a 3D character model in Maya for the first time. I'm obviously still not done hence the half face lol, but I think I'm slowly starting to get a better grasp on how the program works now..

No, this has nothing to do with any of my projects ._.

"beer is proof

that god loves us and wants us to be happy"

Ben Franklin


No, this isn't a random post. This is part of the coaster design for Porter Beer Bar.

GRD 3300 (Illustration) Blog

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I'm gonna be posting my illustration class work on this blog from now on. I'm glad that I'm taking this class because it pretty much forces me to draw more, and I really needed that to get myself going this semester... It's a lot of work, but I'm enjoying it so far :D

School of Art Logos

Obama/Romney Logos

Self Ad Posters

Animation Project

[EDIT]


It's a wonder how audio can change the impact of a video so much..

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I wasn't done with the animation when I uploaded this 3 days ago (hence the missing audio and the bg on some of the scenes), but I'm rendering/uploading the complete version right now. Finally. So this video is to be replaced with the updated version later in the next couple of hours along with a formal creative brief.

It's disappointing how I didn't get to finish this even when I didn't really procrastinate for it, and I thought I got this -_- But I feel like I've gotten a lot more comfortable using AfterEffects and filming with green screen now, so at least I learned something out of it, right?

More gifs

I didn't get to upload the complete rough video on Friday, so I made more gifs instead to show the progress. I have more scenes done, but I haven't made those as gifs yet, so I only have these to show for now. I think I'm almost done though.. I just have a few more scenes that I have to animate. I've already picked out the BGMs, so the video making part shouldn't take too long.

Some Storyboarding

Please excuse my terrible handwriting--or should I say, "I'm sorry for writing in Japanese"? I knew that I was going to be posting these on here, but I guess I was really sleepy and forgot about that or something when I first started working on this.. This is more like a self-memo. It probably doesn't make any sense to other people because it's so messy, but at least I can understand what's going on?

Here's some rough gifs:

corresponds to #8 on the storyboard

corresponds to #9 on the storyboard

Yes, I do have more animations done. No, I'm not going to make them as gifs because it takes too long to make them, and I'd rather spend that time making the actual animation on After Effects using the camera tool instead of the move tool on Photoshop.

VROOM VROOOOOM

You know what's sad? I used to blog like all the time, and I actually had a LiveJournal that I updated almost everyday; in fact, I still have it--it's just that I never use it anymore. I should get back to the habit of writing something daily again... Maybe that'll motivate me to work on my stuff more.

Anyway, more gifs!



This is what I had on Wednesday.. It doesn't look like this anymore though. It was just a rough animation just to get my idea down. I've been on my computer since, day and night, working on some animations that only last for like.. 5 seconds (literally) LOL so sad ;________;



BECAUSE YOU ONLY GET TO SEE LIKE A SECOND OF THIS (literally).

Endless Twirling

I thought about doing something more detailed than silhouettes, but um.. no, due to the limited time that we have. So I'm not going to be using these, but I figured I could at least post them here to make myself feel like I didn't just waste time ):

Imogen Heap Boxset Part2

Here's some sketches I was working on in class the other day:

I was copying some vintage patterns first to get a basic idea of how they all generally looked.

Then, I went on to make my own vintage-looking.. something. I figured I could use the top 2 images to form some kind of pattern, so I took a picture of it (I know, I was too lazy to actually scan it in..) to mock something up in Photoshop.

...And this is the end result of the pattern. Not too bad? A lot of multiply layers and duplication/mirroring. But it's not really the style I was exactly going for, so :/ Yeah.

Imogen Heap Boxset

So I'm doing Imogen Heap for my boxset project.. this will contain three of her solo albums: iMegaphone, Speak for Yourself, and Ellipse. For the cover, I was thinking about creating some kind of type and pattern and integrating it together to form the whole piece--something similar to Marian Bantjes' works, particularly this one.



I've been wanting to make an ambigram for the longest time, so I took this opportunity to create my own. I still have to stuff to fix, but this is basically how it's going to look.

B/W version

Colored version

Experimenting with colors version 1

Experimenting with colors version 2

Press Kit Rough

I'd like to incorporate illustrations and photographs along with some kind of info-graphics into my design, but I'm not exactly sure in what direction I should proceed my design in yet. I thought that the vintage poster look sounded pretty cool, but I dunno--there's so much options to choose from.

Key words/imageries: skateboard, graffiti, pipe rails, spray cans, grunge, raw, hands, feet, stickers, concrete, worn-out, vintage, skulls, metal, alleyways, stairs, tunnels

Skate it or Hang it Logo Ideas

To be updated with descriptions later..