This is a recreation i did of my buddies Shambhala mask. He is going to use it to promote his music on his you-tube channel.
Something is wrong poster
For the poster i had to make something that would shed light on a piece of technology that is plaguing our world and has no been fixed, i personally despise batteries.
Hope you enjoy
Surreal photoshop manipulation
This was an assignment where i had to create a surreal image out of images that i already owned.
The other side – It gets better
This is a documentary project about Three stories reminding us what it is like to be a homosexual in AB.
Lost beauty – DSLR Pictures
Lost beauty – this is a concept that i found in some of my DSLR images I took while exploring an abandoned house.
Recapturing Happiness – DSLR Pictures
Recreating Happiness, for this set of images I tried to showcase the idea of recapturing happiness of a location that lost its happiness to old age.
TSA
The “TSA” or “the strange attractor” is a site that encourages everyone to post there creative and different work that may not be accepted or recognized on other sites. Everything from the mundane to the surreal are accepted on this submission site and encouraged. Ranges of work usually fall into basic graphic design work, or picture composition. The site is a bit more geared towards image composition rather than motion graphics, this allows for anyone with a pen or Photoshop to submit work on this site. The really cool feature that has just been launched is called seedlings, it’s a start up section specifically created for students and graduating graphic designers that are just starting out and need some publicity. Since the site is mainly runs on submissions from new designers, it was only logical for the site to give back to its users. This feature makes me very happy for the future of graphic design, as it allows for fresh artist to join the ever growing pool of talented artists and get his or her foot in the door. Seedlings also allows for the advertisement of universities from all over. I think that in the future people is going to start to see that more and more university institutions are going to offer graphic design degrees and may even spawn new degrees in schools that would help students join the new media career path.
The TSA also has an online store where they can help the artist sell their work. Although it is down at the moment, I’m pretty sure they allow for artists and buyer to connect and distribute their work on their network. This allows for a whole new amount of work and creativity to be released to society. That way you’ll start seeing new art work in people’s homes that don’t have a famous artist behind it, but a young talented graphic designer.
Rotoscope Animation
I rotoscoped 10 seconds of footage to create an animation of surreal proportions.
Motionographer
Motionographer is a website that allows users to have access to a plethora of design reference sites. The site also allows for the artist to submit his or her work and others to discuss recent projects that have been released on the internet. Apart from the sites amazing amount of work that gets posted, the resource section is quite amazing for an up and coming graphic / Motion graphic artist. The tutorials are mostly geared towards after effects and the adobe creative suite and 3d rendering software. This allows for an artist to teach himself very complex video fx and compositional video techniques. As someone who had to teach themselves to use the multitude of programs, that I currently use today on a regular basis, this website would have definitely helped me when I was developing my own. The most useful sites I found where Digital tutors.com and video co-pilot. Both offer a large amount of detailed tutorials that will allow you to take your fx skills to the next level. Everything from basic fx to chroma keying and 3d rendering, these two sites have it all in an easily understandable and accessible format (videos).
Seeing as the next year of new media we are going to be building upon our basics skills we have developed so far. I will definitely be going back a checking out these references on Motionographer for future projects and compositions. Motionographer also has a job finder for graphic design, motion graphics and 3d rendering jobs all over the world. Although I don’t see myself moving to America or London anytime soon, there is also some work at home options. This way you can become an acclaimed graphic artist from the comfort of our own home, without having to pick up and move to a new place for work. I would definitely recommend Motionographer the next time I’m doing some fx work in after effects and would encourage others to check it out as well; you never know what you might learn.
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