DMA205 - FBF Animation

Frame By Frame Animation

First off, I started with an original drawing of mine, scanned it and placed it in Illustrator.

Pen tooled, added some colour and the skateboard.

And now, animation!

My character was based on a Simpsons character, so I figured I would draw up a vector graphic of Homer.

For the reference, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh5y82GXIs

More animation!

The final product can be viewed here:

www.sickkidscreativecollective.com/DMA 205 - FBF Animation.zip

DMA 179 - SKATEBOARD GRAPHIC

Ah yes! The project that sold the program to me, anyways, this one was also quite fun, although it would've been great to have been able to print the graphic, I would've loved to get a photo of myself skateboarding with the board graphic. Oh well, what can you do?

Seeing as how the theme was predators, and tied into the T-Rex at the R.O.M. project, I figured I'd keep rolling with the T-Rex motif, and base my design of of the tooth model I had made.

That eventually turned into this...

From this tooth graphic, I decided to elaborate on the design and create what would, for a skateboard company be considered to be a "team" board, general graphic, no made for any particular rider on the team.

This is the preliminary version of the graphic.

and here is the final version as if it were ready to be screen printed...

And there we have it! Again, awesome project very fun to work on,

I've made the illustrator file available here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?37fskec9lztvhw4

What a great semester! I bid everyone farewell with a photo of what I wish I could be doing on my newly created skateboard!

DMA 179 - T Rex @ The R.O.M. - Posters

This was the part of the project where we had to layout our fonts and put them in poster form

Also researching previous R.O.M. posters to get an idea of what sort of campaigns the R.O.M. has used in the past.

The campaign I found, and decided to base my ideas from was done by designer Paul Wallace.

Specifically, he did the typography in the R.O.M.'s campaigns from April of 1996 to May of 2005.

His simple yet effective approach is what I was looking for.

Here are some quick notes I had for font ideas based on my research.

These are the preliminary fonts I tested in illustrator, I ended up going with Franchise Bold and Headline One as my font choices, here are the style guides.

Franchise

Headline One

Which brings us to the warm and cool colour poster layouts, here they are!

And that is the T-Rex at the R.O.M. project, really excited on how it turned out, all in all a very fun process to create all of these different elements to make one cohesive project.

DMA 179 - T REX TOOTH

This project was based on creating a working campaign for the R.O.M complete with choosing fonts, layouts and creating a scale model dinosaur tooth from clay, this is that tooth!

This was actually really fun to model and here is the process!

I won't bore you with the modeling process, so we'll get straight to the baking.

After modeling the tooth to scale. it was time to throw it in the toaster oven!

Thought I had a better photo of me painting the tooth, alas, I couldn't find it, so here's this one!

Done with just acrylic, I'm pretty happy how the final product turned out!

Here we are! The final product, turned out really great, now I've got a T-rex tooth!

DMA 101 - New Media Tools - Project 3 - Vector Illustration

Here we are! Project 3, the vector illustration from a sketch rough sketch and the process in between. This is one of my personal sketches, very much my style of artwork.

Since I'm not much of a writer, let's get to the photos and explanations!

Here we are with the initial scan of the sketch, not too much detail, but, there's more to come!

Fixing the line work.

There we go, this was actually one of the most tedious and time consuming parts of the project,

but, all that hard work and countless hours paid off.

The line work for the character is finished, time for some colour!

Gettin' there!

Time to add all the details, another rather time consuming process.

The final product! As always, this was quite the time consuming effort, but, all worth it in the end!

DMA 101 - New Media Tools - Sports Logo

This is a project wherein we took any existing bitmap image, a sports logo, and turned it into a high quality vector logo.

The team I chose was the old Vancouver Grizzlies logo, lots of detail, lots of work!

The beginning...

The black and red layers...

Shaping up nicely....Lots of little details for the scrathes, the teeth were fun to draw.

Now we're cookin'....

Gettin' there! The brown colour layer was, by far, the most time consuming

part of the project. But, all worth it for the result!

Annnd, we're done!

Although it took awhile, this has by far been my favorite project, really excited how it turned out!

DMA 204 - Digital Photography - Self Portrait Assignment

This is my submission for the self portrait assignment. It illustrates a big part of my life which is DJ'ing. This was taken at XS nightclub where I was playing a snowboard video premiere.

I like the photo because it shows me having a great time at what I love doing, and I feel very lucky to be able to make a living doing what I love.

I had my friend stand in for me to frame the shot, then had my friend hit the shutter.