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.

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.

Just Working On Some of That Mind Katalyst

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As I have mentioned before in earlier post, I have been working under Mind Catalyst LLC (Now Mind Katalyst LLC) a learning company focused on compter programing and science education for children K-12. It has been a long ride but a wonderful one. This is the final logo in a mutitude of many roughs. (Below are just a few)

(You'll notice the amount of revision before reaching the final piece. Some are better than others, and the company went through a lot of restructuring as far as what kind of business it wanted to be as well as a name change after coming up with concepts and mock-ups)

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Business cards were relatively the same process. The final piece is above while mock-ups and early versions are below.

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In the end, we went with a very illustrative style that's simple and straight forward. Here are shots of the tabs I created for Mind Katalyst's Twitter site as well as the facebook fan page. Check it out, and like them.

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.

Gemini Puppet Finially Done

While this puppet took a very long time to complete (2 whole days non-stop ;3;) I am very happy to say the results are fantastic. My good friend, and co-creator for our animated web drama, Tracy MacLauchlan will be test animating it very soon.This was definitely the most complex puppet I've ever made for sure, but my favorite. She came out so cuuute. I really want to thank Tracy for the wonderful turnaround she had done. I could not have done this work without her.

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The Taffetas animation will be a Flash-based puppet
animation with special effects and compositing done
in After Effects. This is so that we can work in-house
as well as distribute our media more on the internet.

Puppet, or cut-out animation, relies on a marionette-
like base for the characters made up of various shapes
that create the whole (for instance, Gemini's arms are
made up of two cylinder shapes that are connected at
the elbow like a puppet). In Flash, Toonboom or any
other animation program that like it,an animator can
then move and manipulate these shapes to animate.



For Taffetas, puppet animation makes sense not only
for production and resource reasons, but also for our
fashion and marketability plan. Take note of the var-
ious outfits we can put Gemini in, ready to go for ani-
mation for whatever episode we are now working on!

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New website

Finially finished my new website! I think it looks pretty nice! the link is here : www.ygrafix.com
but here are some screen shots too

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)

Happy Day

I put it on the Blaaaaag! Just for you!!



Happy Birthday Tracy! I hope it is as amazing as you are!!

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.