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It’s been another great quarter at SCAD! I thought this quarter was going to be easy, but I think it was the hardest one yet. Never in my life have I operated so consistently on so little sleep. That’s okay, though. I look to rappers for sentient life advice, and have taken Nas’ philosophy on sleep to heart. Anyways, here are some of the highlights from Spring 2013 quarter!
I nearly died whilst matte painting.
I had fun with illustration for my knolling and Prometheus boards.
My first ever demo reel!!!
And portfolio site!
Snowstorm Nemo found me in New York…
I went, I designed, I triumphed at the Battle of the Boards.
And I almost made a logo thingie.
Spring quarter starts in a mere 10 days -__- Bring it on?
I hope to be tackling a bit of animation over the break. Follow me on Vimeo and Twitter!
Tags: animation, design, illustration, motion graphics, motion media, recap
Team Luxe
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Previously: Battle of the Boards! Part I
Also: The official BOTB web site, which lists the rules and the judges and the informational/inspirational participant-generated stream.
Above is our profile page from my team’s process book. (A process / pitch book is a glorified powerpoint presentation that packages, sells and explains a design pitch). I was so happy with my team! Jason, Krystal and I have all been in Design for Motion together this quarter. And Lexie was one of my team members for the Carlo Vega Workshop in October. So I knew everybody. Not gonna lie, having a graphic design major in our group was a huge asset. I have to thank Jason for helping me learn InDesign a whole lot better from this workshop!
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Tags: Battle of the Boards, design, design boards, Dexter, Greg Herman, Homeland, pitch book, process book, SCAD motion media, Shameless, Showtime, The Tudors
Battle of the Boards Participants!
For the past five years SCAD has organized an event called Inspire for the Motion Media department. For the 2012-2013 year, however, the department has decided to try something a little different.
Rather than holding a singular, 2-day event (as a bookend to the Career Fair), they decided it might be more beneficial to give students the chance to actually put their skills into practice. They decided to invite some professional designers to come and lead 2 or 3-day workshops over the course of the year.
The Carlo Vega workshop I wrote about a few months ago was the first of these workshops, and it was an amazing success. All of us MOME students were begging for them to do it more often, and we were very excited when we heard the next one would be a design workshop with director/designer Greg Herman.
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Tags: Battle of the Boards, design, design boards, design for motion, Greg Herman, motion graphics, SCAD motion media, style frames
Tendril’s opening title sequence for the Style Frames New York conference
After a couple of weeks I’ve had some time to step back from SFNY and actually process everything that went on there. New York City is a complete and total reversal of Savannah, especially in pace. There is no getting stuck behind horse-drawn buggies in the Big Apple. My trip was bookended by a series of all-nighters: two before I left, and two upon my immediate return. Snow storm Nemo hit New England halfway into the conference, so I ended up staying in New York for a couple of extra days. Exhaustion has become less of a problem for me and more just a simple fact of life.
But I really did have fun! I was very proud of SCAD’s presence at the conference. All but one of the 21 volunteers in the conference were SCAD students, and I met a couple of SCAD alumni among the professionals in attendance. Several of the featured style frames that made it onto the slideshow that played in between panels and presentations were SCAD student work. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: conference, design, MOME, motion media, New York City, NYC, scad, SFNY, Style Frames New York
I can’t believe I didn’t make a post about this earlier, but I have a portfolio web site now: www.caressehaaser.com. Ah, the beauty of having an obscure name! Makes it easy to score a domain address.
Last night I spent several hours not doing homework to revamp my site. Now, instead of everything being grouped into categories, all of my work is displayed on the front page. I like this much better because visitors won’t have to click through any links to access my videos and design work. And it’s cool to see all of my projects laid out like this!
I use Carbonmade for my portfolio. It is pretty nice and hassle-free, as far as portfolio sites go. I’d say it’s the Tumblr of portfolio services because its interface is so simple. In fact there is not really anything Carbonmade does that Tumblr can’t – except that with a paid account you can upload up to 50 of your own videos. It’s nice not to have to use my Vimeo account as a horse for my web site. Carbonmade’s biggest downfall is that it’s almost overly simplistic. It could be more customizable. What I do like is how quickly videos process on Carbonmade. If you don’t have a lot of time to design and code in everything on your web site consistently, I would definitely recommend it.
So I now have a reel, a web site, a resume – and by the end of the day I’ll have more business cards then I know what to do with! (250!) Pics of those soon. 
Tags: Carbonmade, design, motion media, portfolio, web site
In October of last year, artist and motion graphic designer Carlo Vega came to SCAD to conduct a 3-day workshop with the MOME department. Unless you follow motion graphics design, you may not know his name, but you’ve probably seen his work. Vega has done branding for MSNBC, The Today Show, and CMT. His corporate clients include Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Nike, and Best Buy, among many others. I believe around 70-80 motion media undergrad and grad students took part in the workshop, developing 15-second scenes that would be part of a larger, continuous streaming video web site experience: Metamorphosis. As it was October, the theme was Halloween/horror. In my opinion that’s one of the funnest genres to work in, and one I’d never experimented with before.
Based on Carlo Vega’s resume, I was expecting someone loud, outgoing, and imtimidating- as many successful design professionals often are. But he was almost the opposite of that. At first, when we gathered in Monty for the work shop, I didn’t even notice he was in the room, until a friend pointed out who he was. I had just taken him for another student. He seemed nervous as he stood in the front of the room explaining the project and showing us the design boards. “I’ve never done something like this before,” he said.
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Tags: Carlo Vega, design, female designers, metamorphosis, motion graphics, motion media
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At last, our final assignment in MOME 120 (Concepts & Storyboards)!! We had to make 8 style boards for a 60 second promo commercial for either the North by Northwest music and film festival or the Cannes Film Festival. I chose NXNE because it is more in line with the design style that I like to do. The above image is Frame 1. Click any image to go to the larger version. The rest of my boards below…
EDIT: Just want to note that the NXNE and Bunny logo aren’t my design. They’re NXNE official, just trying to incoroporate some of their established design elements.
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Tags: commercial, design, motion graphics, motion media, NXNE, scad, storyboards, styleframes
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We were assigned to create a broadcast network identity (not the logo really, just a commercial spot/bumper/etc). Of the options we could choose from, I picked History Channel. (Other choices were Spike TV, CMT, NBC, and Univision).
Above is my 3rd concept, the last one I created, and in my opinion – the weakest. The “H” logo is supposed to be a window into the past – if you look closely, you’ll see that inside the “H” is an older photograph of the same scene in New York, from the 1970′s. I would have liked to have found an even older “before” picture, from say the 1940′s or earlier, but it’s hard to find current-day pics and older ones that match up so well and are of decent quality. So, meh. Click through to see my better, prior concepts.
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Tags: commercial graphics, design, History Channel, motion graphics, motion media, network ident, scad, styleframes
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FIFA/ESPN commercial/branding for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was one of our choices for a concepts assignment – obviously I had no choice!
That being said I’m not super proud of these. I did them all the night before and had to get grass textures and soccer ball shape from Google images >:(. The pattern is based on a South American woven textile, but simplified and streamlined, vectorized and re-colored in Illustrator to my liking 
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Tags: bumper, commercial, design, FIFA 2014, motion graphics, motion media, promo, Rio de Janiero, styleframes, World Cup
