Pixar have pioneered in 3d animation and their Luxo junior short was a major step into new animation techniques
John Lasseter was learning how to model at this time and so chose the nearest and eaierst subject around him...his desktop lamp
he animated it, created life and emotion with the animation techniques in this peice that was eventually nominated for an academy award.
here is the full animation itself
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Animation: blu
blu is a graffiti artist from brazil who has made a full animation from just stop motion animation, he created movement in his graffiti using the stop motion technique while paining his artwork
simply incredible, especially with the amount of work that must have been put into the painting
http://www.blublu.org/
The new short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
amazing animation skills
simply incredible, especially with the amount of work that must have been put into the painting
http://www.blublu.org/
The new short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
amazing animation skills
Thursday, 5 March 2009
PPD: Juha Kinnunen
Juha is by far one of my favourite photographers of all time, his landscape work is truely incredible and i envy his skills. Juha currently resides in Oulu, Finland. I met Juha via the online art gallery known as DeviantART and have watched his work for over a year now and he has never ceased to amaze me with his skills behind the camera. i often ask Juha for tips and secrets to help me improve my own photography which he graces me with his knowledge frequently. Thanks Juha.
also check out his website here;
and his deviantART here;
at this point id like to feature a few peices of his truely inspiring and incredible photography:
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possibly one of my favourites here ^
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outstanding to say the least :)
Evaluation: Flash Game
During my first experience using actionscript 2, I found the first instances quite difficult to grasp, but once learning efficiently how to read and understand the code more fully you can then understand where to implement what areas of code and how to structure them. This was much more suited to my taste. I preferred to code rather than to animate due to previous experience in web design. This also was ultimately a very useful experience as i can learn from this brief in order to create a flash based gallery for my upcoming online portfolio.
I kept to the brief quite well using the story “Little Red Riding Hood” as my chosen fairy tale, and developed a series of scenes using different methods of action scripting to create a mini game based on avoiding “landmines” (a bit more modern approach)to escape. I maintained the same atmosphere throughout the game using similar colour palette throughout and similar style vector graphics. These were produced in illustrator.
I believe the strongest aspect of my game is the use of different types of scripting methods, creating randomly generating landmines, rain and scaling objects. It was difficult to get all of the aspects built into the script functioning correctly but what I managed to come up with I was pleased with. After looking around at different examples of actionscript and examining what they meant I was able to apply this to my own work, making the different features of my game.
I could have made my production better by adding some sort of scoring system to my game which allows you to have a certain number of lives or shows how many lives the wolf has before it gets blown up by the landmines. This would have made the game much easier and much more professional. This being said, I struggled to come up with the actionscript to be able to code this into my game. This would have meant i would have been able to add a number more scenes to make this interactive game much more user friendly and more fun to play effectively. I should also have allowed myself more time to think of the ideas and what actionscript would need to be implemented into the game before actually beginning to produce the game therefore reducing pressure on myself and being more time effective.
In conclusion i believe this flash game to be a success as its almost as i planned out an i have learnt a lot from actually making the game which i may be able to put into good use later on in my career/education . the changes i could have made would have improved the game so much more if i had know how to make the changes required to do so. For a first time using actionscript i believe what i did was well done and a very good learning curve and i hope i can harness these skills in the near future for web design purposes.
I kept to the brief quite well using the story “Little Red Riding Hood” as my chosen fairy tale, and developed a series of scenes using different methods of action scripting to create a mini game based on avoiding “landmines” (a bit more modern approach)to escape. I maintained the same atmosphere throughout the game using similar colour palette throughout and similar style vector graphics. These were produced in illustrator.
I believe the strongest aspect of my game is the use of different types of scripting methods, creating randomly generating landmines, rain and scaling objects. It was difficult to get all of the aspects built into the script functioning correctly but what I managed to come up with I was pleased with. After looking around at different examples of actionscript and examining what they meant I was able to apply this to my own work, making the different features of my game.
I could have made my production better by adding some sort of scoring system to my game which allows you to have a certain number of lives or shows how many lives the wolf has before it gets blown up by the landmines. This would have made the game much easier and much more professional. This being said, I struggled to come up with the actionscript to be able to code this into my game. This would have meant i would have been able to add a number more scenes to make this interactive game much more user friendly and more fun to play effectively. I should also have allowed myself more time to think of the ideas and what actionscript would need to be implemented into the game before actually beginning to produce the game therefore reducing pressure on myself and being more time effective.
In conclusion i believe this flash game to be a success as its almost as i planned out an i have learnt a lot from actually making the game which i may be able to put into good use later on in my career/education . the changes i could have made would have improved the game so much more if i had know how to make the changes required to do so. For a first time using actionscript i believe what i did was well done and a very good learning curve and i hope i can harness these skills in the near future for web design purposes.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
PPD:Saad Moosajee/Lost Exile
Saad Moosajee is a very talented artist who specializes in 3D artwork, despite only being 15 years old he has accomplished what many designers only hope to do.With inspirations coming from science fiction and various other sources Saad shows us that age does not define your skill.
^Taken From PSDTUTS.com
My good friend Saad is a self taught graphic designer originally from London, England now residing in the USA. He is a firm beleiver in strong concepts and has allready had client work even at such a young age such as DAHRA, skybeam, wideband network, oxfam, tiger beer, thekdu.
i met Saad over at SlashTHREE.com as one of the Creative Directors, and once becomming an artist and now staff member myself have become good friends with Saad. He has Proved to be a great influence and inspiration to my work.
Some Of His Artwork:
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check him out
^Taken From PSDTUTS.com
My good friend Saad is a self taught graphic designer originally from London, England now residing in the USA. He is a firm beleiver in strong concepts and has allready had client work even at such a young age such as DAHRA, skybeam, wideband network, oxfam, tiger beer, thekdu.
i met Saad over at SlashTHREE.com as one of the Creative Directors, and once becomming an artist and now staff member myself have become good friends with Saad. He has Proved to be a great influence and inspiration to my work.
Some Of His Artwork:
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check him out
PPD: PDGFX
Uble Sybesma is one of my long time friends over the internet, we have been on the same online art scene around the same amount of time and he has been a giant inspiration to me and some of my work. with his help i have been able to improve my own skills especially in Cinema 4D. He has an outstanding creative mind and id like to broadcast him within this blog.
so here is some of his work...all rights reserved.
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http://pdgfx.deviantart.com
http://pdgfx.deviantart.com
so here is some of his work...all rights reserved.
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http://pdgfx.deviantart.com
http://pdgfx.deviantart.com
Monday, 9 February 2009
PPD: typography
for some reason ive fallen in love with typography and have become mesmerised by certain peices of typo which ive studied and pondered for hours if im honest and im still amazed at them no matter how simple.
id like to show a few peices that have been a massive inspiration boost to me oer the past month or so from 2 artists which i have now contacted.
This is by Johnathon Haggard a typographer/designer based in california with such an amazing typographic talent. ive been talking to him recently via msn and deviantART for some tips on how to improve my own skills. he has helped a lot so far.
his deviantart ^
A few more of his work:
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my good friend Sander Rietdijk otherwise known as ICDP (iseedeadpixels)ive met ICDP a long time ago through various artgroups im involved with primarily slashTHREE
. he is a dutch based designer of the same age as me and has some incredible work which id like to share with you.
all his rights reserved
these peices inspired me to create a typography piece for myself and without further adue id like to present "All That Once Was Is Now Lost".
amazing work from 2 of my favourite artists
id like to show a few peices that have been a massive inspiration boost to me oer the past month or so from 2 artists which i have now contacted.
This is by Johnathon Haggard a typographer/designer based in california with such an amazing typographic talent. ive been talking to him recently via msn and deviantART for some tips on how to improve my own skills. he has helped a lot so far.
his deviantart ^
A few more of his work:
Now
my good friend Sander Rietdijk otherwise known as ICDP (iseedeadpixels)ive met ICDP a long time ago through various artgroups im involved with primarily slashTHREE
. he is a dutch based designer of the same age as me and has some incredible work which id like to share with you.
all his rights reserved
these peices inspired me to create a typography piece for myself and without further adue id like to present "All That Once Was Is Now Lost".
amazing work from 2 of my favourite artists
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