New Class

Hello everyone. It has been another while since I have posted. Yep, it's been another hit of a large amount of work.
If unaware I have been currently working on several projects.

• Mind Katalyst
• The Taffetas
• & my Portfolio 101 class

They have all been wonderful, but each is so time consuming.

For the Taffetas, if unaware I have been entered into the Animation World Magazine's (AWM) pitch party contest 2011. For the contest we have been in the works of creating a (really tiny) magazine ad to place on their magazine. The cost of entry was $375 but SCAD was nice enough to pay our way in. This was our entry:
Tracy and I worked very hard to produce the ad. All of it was done in a weeks time because to the time we received word of the contest. Despite the hardship and the sleepless nights it took to manage our finals as well as create this ad the finial result was something wonderful. We have yet to recieve word of the contest results, but we wanted to thank everyone for supporting the project!!

For Mind Katalyst, we have requited the wonderful and very talented Nana Boachie for an animated short the company is working on. We are also currently looking for other talented interns as well, but until then this short proves to be something very promising.

And for my own portfolio, I have been in the works of editing and fixing up a few of my old projects. In the meantime I had to come up with my goals and mission statement. Half to say it was actually nice to have it all on paper. Feel more focused and all that jazz XD

Either way I thought I might share them.


These are pretty obtainable right!? ;-)

Test Fight Poster Spring 2011

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This is the newest poster I've done for Tracy's wonderful animated short : Test Flight, due to be completed Fall 2011.

The wife of an eccentric inventor deals with her feelings of neglect during the
test flight of her husband’s most beloved invention : a flying Ford Model-T car.

Needless to say the contraption crashes, and I tried to convey it rather subtly by basing the poster off a cover of another rather interesting story : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Opening Credits

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My first mock up of the beginning credits for my friend Tracy's film Test Flight. Please check it out, its amazing. [LINK]

What is Test Flight?

Test Flight is a 2011 student animated short at the Savannah College of Art and Design. It will be completed using Adobe Flash with a mix of puppets and frame-by-frame and composited After Effects. It runs about 2 minutes.

What is Test Flight about?

This film is about the wife of an eccentric inventor who deals with her feelings of neglect during the test flight of her husband’s beloved invention, a flying Ford Model-T.

Run Jess Run

This is a preview of the game I had worked on last quarter. I hadn't put it online yet, but it will be playable and up soon. Essentially the game is a story about me not being able to get to class on time. It was done entirely in Flash and AS3. I worked with 2 amazing teammates, Dana Corrigan (character animation) and Tracy MacLauchlan (ending sequence), who are always my first choices in teaming up with anyone for a collaborative project.

Other parts of the game can be seen here (LINK)


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Video Thanks to Dana Corrigan. (She also did the character animations)

Dibble Dabbles

A Project for a studio class. Essentially it was broken up into 3 parts. Something tangible, something printable, and something viable through the screen (ie web-based)
What I did was create a doll that had it's own packaging (it looked like a McDonalds happy-meals only shaped like a briefcase), a set of business playing cards, and a flash based game. This was all done with a approx. 2 weeks to complete it. ;) I'm good.

The idea behind the entire piece was how do I communicate a solution that will hit the idea that adults loss their sense of curiosity and imagination. I didn't want it to be a negative kind of approach, "YOU! Stop going to Chili's every Friday, and making love on a Wednesday just because you are free those days ... and those are the days you do those things" but I did want to approach the idea that, maybe as we get older routine becomes safe and familiar, and how can I shake things up. Some long thought went into this, but after a while I settled on Dibble Dabbles. (A play on the words, to Dabble and Fiddle-Faddle) Essentially it's a small portable game that plays on the idea of exchanging cards. You pass along a Dibble Dabble Business card, the person does it and passes it on. Or maybe you play it on your own and hope to go through the whole deck one card at a time. Either way, for a moment the person was creative and imaginative and managed to shack their routine even if by small increments at a time.





The cards above were sized like business cards and in a pack of 52. The first 3 being the top of the cards. The idea behind it is that it is in a format where it didn't feel like a child's game, but still inspired childlike creativity.

Freedom

So things have been a bit hectic here in SCAD, Savannah. I was practically neck deep in projects. Here are some of the ones I did towards the end when finals were dwindling down. Some better than others, but for the most part I am fond of them all.


Anger Management for The Gods
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A collaboration with my friend Tracy for Myth assignment. Essentially, if you think you know about myth.... you don't. Or I didn't. I thought myths were all about magical tales of wonder and rescue. Nope. Sometimes a man gets so angry he defecates in the palace walls and throws them about (Susanowo) , other times he shoves a horse through a hole (Same guy), or kills 12 sons for not forgiving him for murder (Heracles). Either way, myth is a strange experience, that makes little to no sense. Fun, FUN class though.



Fannnnnn Art
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Is ... what it is. Done for a very talented individual who had drawn a fan piece for Veil and Gemini, characters in our upcoming online drama series, The Taffetas.




Mind Catalyst Website
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A splash page for the new upcoming website. I'm pretty proud of it. Not sure it's going to be used.... but still I want to share it.

Typographic Comic

A little comic I did for this last final in the history of graphic design. For it to make some sort of sense basically Milton Glaser created the I *heart* NY symbol, Carson uses type in a way that makes reading it almost impossible (also he's kind of a jerk), And Eric Gill is a pedophile that rapes everything.... including his dog. Look him up, he's an ...uh.... interesting fellow.