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!? ;-)

Something Beautiful

Here it is completed :D

Taffetas Poster

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This is a poster I created for the pitch The Taffetas, an online drama series. It is to be featured in today's Senior Soiree at the Savannah College of Art and Design campus. If the pose looks familiar, its because it is referencing Botticelli's, The Birth of Venus. Hopefully people find them as humorous as last quarter and we get a nice turn out.



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The image above does not do it justice. The original printed poster will be done in a 3 layer cut out format where Gemini pops out from the poster just ever so slightly, and Veil is jumping in from the left, blushing (though his blush doesn't show in this one), and trying to cover up his wife.



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The characters themselves were sketched out by Tracy MacLauchlan and then vectored by myself.

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.

Hello world, Sorry I have been gone.

Man its been so long since I have ventured in Blogger. I've been meaning to, but it seems one thing happens after another, and school here at SCAD has me drowned in homework. So what I'm going to do is try to stick to updating regularly again, starting now.

As for what I've been up to lately, well lots. I have an internship at MindCatalyst, and I am currently design lead for them. Strange huh.... the girl who draws baby animals got a serious job. It's launching sometime in 2011 (can't give out that kind of thing you know) but if you would like to visit the temporary website CLICK HERE !

It's a nice little site I temporary put up. Designed that and the logo myself. Pretty proud of it :D

Another really large project I am in now is "The Taffetas" a pitch to Warner Brothers that myself and close friends of mine co-created. I would visit the site, if only to give emotional support. We'd appreciate any feedback a person can give. Tracy and I are very smitten with the project and as the days go on, and more and more work get fleshed out, I am sure the Taffeta's will be a project to be proud of. So far we've made advertisements for the project. Those are them below.

The tag line was "cover our behinds, costume designers needed!" and "what are you doing!? If nothing, lend us a hand" It was a play on the relationship between the characters. The husband on the right furious lol.