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I’m super excited to have started Senior 1 class! I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to do for my final project for a long time, and it wasn’t a hard decision. I knew I wanted to do a music video from the get go, and I knew the band I wanted to work with.
Tags: design boards, senior film, styleframes, the rickshaw roadshow
At long last, I got to flex some illustrative muscles in Design for Motion class. Even though for each project I kept telling myself keep it simple Caresse, do not go HAM on the photocompositing and obsessive compulsive detail painting, I would never listen. I still ended up pulling all nighters and delivering unfinished process books and less than the required amount of frames.
Well, I still pulled an all-nighter on this one. But it wasn’t my fault. Instead of Saturday, I got back late last Monday from the Style Frames New York conference (more on that later) and had only Tuesday/Tuesday night to whip this thing together. While compositing is something I still labor slowly over, luckily I can draw relatively fast. With my tablet, I can draw even faster. Speaking of which…
<< This is my tablet pen tip right now. I bought this thing less than a month ago, and as you can see the once proud nib has been reduced to an ever-dwindling wedge. I asked some of my MOME peers about nib replacements and their tablet habits, and they were nonplussed. “Replace nib? Who does that?”… “You might be working too much…” (After doing some research, I now see that the nib I have is a “flex nib,” which is made out of a more pliable plastic than the standard nib.).
The brief for this project was to create a series of boards inspired by the Greek Titan Prometheus. If you thought Prometheus was just the last Alien movie, you suck. If you thought Prometheus was just a character from Kablam!, marry me.
We were instructed to convey the story of Prometheus with either a Modernist or “Naive” design aesthetic. Please visit my web site for a breakdown of the process for this assignment. Here are my final boards:
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Tags: concept, design for motion, Genesis, illustration, motion media, photoshop, process, Prometheus, serpent, snake, storyboards, styleframes
Our last assignment in design for motion was to create a series of design boards off the concept of “knolling.” Our concepts also had to be a self-portrait of sorts, but within those constraints we could devise any narrative or context we pleased.
Interestingly, a lot of my classmates focused on travel as a means of self-portraiture. So did I. But instead of knolling the places I’ve been or the things I’ve collected, I decided to knoll places I’d like to go. Aside from being born in Germany, I’ve never been out of the country. Traveling abroad has been my biggest desire for as long as I can remember.
These boards represent my dreams of places I’d like to go and things I’d like to see. And yes, I do have a knollingly organized list of future destinations and sights 
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Tags: boards, compositing, design for motion, matte painting, motion media, photoshop, scad, styleframes
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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.
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.
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 
I was going for a “Carnaval” festive and colorful feeling. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bumper, commercial, design, FIFA 2014, motion graphics, motion media, promo, Rio de Janiero, styleframes, World Cup
Phew, I finally did something! This assignment was our first in MOME 120: Concepts and Storyboards. We don’t have to actually make any videos in this class; just the concepts and uh, storyboards.
This assignment was to select one of the following 3 companies: Starbucks, VISA, and Ferrari, and two art movements from the following: Surrealism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Constructivism, and Pop Art. Then we were to make 2 advertisement styleframes for the company we chose – each one a different art movement.
Obviously I chose Ferrari…. I’ll leave the art movements to be guessed
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Tags: Ferrari, motion graphics, motion media, Pop Art, Russian Constructivism, scad, styleframes
