Doritos advert

This is the final advert for the doritoes competition...

thoughtbubble.org animations

I saw these animations from a website called thoughtbubble.org, the main idea behind 'thought bubble' is to create short viral motion graphics to spread information across the planet. I found an article on there website which I think I will use for my professional project, speaking of awareness and if visual communicators are to blame.





thoughtbubble.org

Logorama

I found this prretty cool film all revolving around logos. I had seen screenshots before, but I had never seen the film. I thought the style of the animation was interesting, it gives me another idea towards the style I'd like my professional project to be:

Lastminute.com final boards

dnad submission

Today we handed in our project for 'lastminute.com,' I felt that there was a lot of extra stress on top of all the other projects we have at the moment, that is always the case on deadline day though. I think our final piece boards looked real professional, and I was proud of the work I had created.

portfolio website.

I found a link to a website called 5oup. They are a community of designers, which gives people a chance to upload their work...

Tilt shift photography

I found this video on the creative review blog. I have seen stuff like this before, but never recorded it. I think it was the one of the hp adverts which used this kind of style, it was something that really interested me as I used to do photography.

This particular piece of work was shot in New York, it took 35,000 stills to make and was shot in just over 5 days. Away from my project work I found this quite inspirational, and saw it as another good piece of tilt-shift photography.

A replacement for barcodes?

Recently I was reading up on the new barcodes. They are called bokodes and they work in the way as the barcodes. The difference is that they don't have stripes, it looks more like a pixelated picture, much like the one to the left.

They are revolutionary in that they have more patterns than the barcode, and can therefore be used on a greater range of products. The guy in the BBC video says that they could be used on the front of shops so when the Google maps van goes past it will automatically understand where it is, and link it to the website.

mitv plan 2

Today I was sent an email containing the plan for the second track drawing. So I have been doing some work on this trying to get it out of the way asap so I can move forward with my professional project.

I have already sent the first draft to the client for checks, and I got a response this afternoon with a couple of changes to work with, so I think this project is moving on nicely...

Strida commercial concept.

This video was created by a student called Seokmin Yun. I have put this on my blog because it shows use of After Effects in animation. He also uses a program called '3ds max,' I'm guessing he is an animation student, and although ill never create anything this technical for this project, it is interesting to see the programs he used to create it.

I will keep researching different animation styles and see if I can find more after effects based work. From that I will be able to start sketching up some concepts.

Second Wind

I found this animation through looking at the Motionographer blog. It has a lot of relevance to my professional project because half of it was created in After Effects. The creator, Ian Worrel created the characters using pencil and paper. Then they were coloured using Photoshop. I like the use of hand rendering in the animation which gives it a unique style.

packaging design

Although I'm not doing any packaging design at the moment, I was researching into names for my campaign identity and I found this pretty cool website: The Dieline

advanced database searching

I just had Charlotte for this advanced database search thing. The idea of the session was to help us with research for our essays. She gave us a booklet which described different databases, and how to go about searching for articles, books and DVD's. One of which I had already been recommended.

The session enabled me to think deeper about my research and where to find key materials that I could use for my essay! Now, I shall go away and think about what sorts of things I want to look on top of the 'American Express' advert.

Mr Muffin.

I found this ad when researching the energy saving trust. It is by Tom & Mark who can be found on the nexus productions website. I thought it was a really inspirational piece of work.

natural gas ad

update.

I am well into the research for my professional project now. I have been looking at many different ecological issues. But one of the more interesting is the work I have looked at for 'bloom energy.'
They are an innovative researching into new energy, and ways to power the earth, without the use of fossil fuels to create something which is 100% renewable.
I went into the critique today really excited about my plan for the professional project. I think it was quite an eye opener to the amount of questions I had to answer. If I'm aiming it to the public then I need to make my information as clear as possible.

I'm going to work towards one thing at a time, and another point that came out of the crit. was my ambitions of creating a website and animation being to much. I don't want to rule it out just yet because it is in the brief.

My plan for the next few weeks will be to reaching a decision on who my market is, research into the style of animation I would like to follow and get an idea of how the campaign will start to take shape. I was reminded we have 3 weeks till Easter, which isn't long. So it's important I got on it.