So, I decided to stick with the blogging at least for now. Being that I am out of school for summer and don't have all my YSDN friends to talk design with I will need it more than ever. I guess I do have all my co-workers at the studio I am interning at, 52 Pick-Up Inc., but they are all very print oriented and this blog is all about motion graphics.
GCI is a massive PR agency that is part of the WPP group. WPP includes companies such as Y&R Olgivy and Mather and many other amazing communications companies. I love the motion graphic sequence on GCI's website! It is so cool! Check it out.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Course Reflection
In general I really liked Time Based Comm. I feel like in third and fourth year there are two kinds of courses. The courses that just kind of repeat what you have learned in first and second year class, but have more sophisticated projects, or the kind that completely deviate from everything you have done before and really widen you visual communications horizons. This was definitely one of those courses. I have always really enjoyed working with video (I am considering doing an MFA in film) so learning Final Cut, After Effects and DVD studio was really fun. In addition so many design studios do motion graphics in addition to just print and web work so learning all of this stuff really gives you a leg up in the industry. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to creating motion graphics, but this class gave me a great start. The only thing I regret is never actually having worked with video in the course- next time.
Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed keeping the blog. It made it really easy to share my work with other people in the class and out, plus I am always talking about design and most people I talk to don't really care what I have to say. This whole blog thing didn't exactly shut me up, but it did give a place to write about what I am interested in without annoying anyone. I can actually see myself continuing with this blog. I mean where else am I going to get to talk about 3 months worth of design interning work?
Motion graphics and design in general. There is a lot of amazing stuff out there, but being that motion graphics are so closely linked with technology I can only see it as a growing field. It is also interesting to be able to watch TV of movies and be more conscience of the work that went into what I am watching. It is really exciting to think that something I am involved with has really permeated pretty much every level of society. Go design!
Have a great summer!
Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed keeping the blog. It made it really easy to share my work with other people in the class and out, plus I am always talking about design and most people I talk to don't really care what I have to say. This whole blog thing didn't exactly shut me up, but it did give a place to write about what I am interested in without annoying anyone. I can actually see myself continuing with this blog. I mean where else am I going to get to talk about 3 months worth of design interning work?
Motion graphics and design in general. There is a lot of amazing stuff out there, but being that motion graphics are so closely linked with technology I can only see it as a growing field. It is also interesting to be able to watch TV of movies and be more conscience of the work that went into what I am watching. It is really exciting to think that something I am involved with has really permeated pretty much every level of society. Go design!
Have a great summer!
Project 3- storyboards and other important things like that
As mentioned in a previous post, I decided to make my DVD menu Tetris themed. Here you can find the basic structure of the menu and storyboards/screen shots of the project.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Everything Comes Together
Don't you just love it when everything comes together so nicely in the end? This week I finally managed to secure an internship for May and June in Tel Aviv- yeay! They are a studio called Render that does pretty much everything: print, web, video and animation. One thing I really like about their video work is how they layer different videos and animations together in a really interesting way.
One of their featured videos was for a company called called Magink. Magink display technologies, Inc. is the world's first developer and provider of full color digital ink displays. While I really liked the video itself and how it went back and forth between hightech 3D animation and pencil like sketchy animation I was even more interested in the content of the video. In infoarch back in the fall my partner Adrienne and I created a system called the digital graffiti project. It would have been really cool to see this video in the fall and maybe it would have influenced the direction of our project. It was also interesting to see how in the video the product is featured in various urban environments and one of the points of our project was to look at how these kinds of technologies work in a suburban environment.
If that doesn't wrap things up nicely what does?
One of their featured videos was for a company called called Magink. Magink display technologies, Inc. is the world's first developer and provider of full color digital ink displays. While I really liked the video itself and how it went back and forth between hightech 3D animation and pencil like sketchy animation I was even more interested in the content of the video. In infoarch back in the fall my partner Adrienne and I created a system called the digital graffiti project. It would have been really cool to see this video in the fall and maybe it would have influenced the direction of our project. It was also interesting to see how in the video the product is featured in various urban environments and one of the points of our project was to look at how these kinds of technologies work in a suburban environment.
If that doesn't wrap things up nicely what does?
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