2D to 3D Motion Graphics Test

This is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while now. I’ve seen this technique used in several documentaries recently and wanted to try it out for myself. The idea was to take a 2D image of some kind and move a camera through the scene to reveal that there is actually depth. What I did was break this painting (The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra by John Martin) up along what I perceived to be the foreground, mid-ground and background using Photoshop. I then imported the layered Photoshop file into Apple Motion where I spaced each, of what ended up being almost twelve layers, out along the Z axis. It took quite a bit of tweaking, but ended up being really easy to do.

Digital Abstract

With this one we were tasked with designing an abstract digital art piece, which is basically using the canvas to convey some kind of emotion rather than a specific image. I was in a particularly good mood when I did this, and apparently when I’m feeling this way I produce colorful fuzzy images. Ha ha. This one started to look kind of like a caterpillar to me by the end, but in the interest of sounding “artsy,” I think I’ll call it, “The Explosion of a Lonely Star” just to make people think. Either way, I received positive accolades from everyone who saw it. Hooray!

“Casualty” Screened at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

From Feb 14-20, 2008 my short documentary titled “A Casualty of the Promise Land“ was screened in Missoula Montana at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.  It sounds crazy but I was in the middle of our move to Orlando when I heard they wanted to show it up there, and I didn’t pay much attention to it. It’s already airing nationally on Current TV but I’m still kinda kicking myself a little bit, ’cause it would have been cool to go up and mingle with the industry people. I honestly didn’t realize it was such a big deal until I was Google’ing my name (which I do occasionally… don’t pretend like you don’t do it too!) and the profile page for my film popped up. I took a look at the Big Sky website, and more importantly the sponsors (Sony, Avid, HBO, IndiePix Films and a whole lot more). It’s actually seems to be kinda big time! I just heard “Missoula, Montana” and immediately assumed insignificant… mistake. Well I’ll learn from this one. At least Ben Phen (who co produced the piece with me) was able to make it to Sundance this year.

Marriage Builders Commercial (Kinda)

Okay so this isn’t actually the audio for the real thing… but it’s a lot more fun.  Any way, here’s what the animation is for: This is an ongoing piece of freelance work that I’m called on to update occasionally. I don’t really have total artistic freedom, but the concept and artistic direction is totally mine. Several things where changed per client request, one of which was the color of the text. It was originally white, but they complained that it wasn’t easy enough to see… valid.  This audio is just for fun.  I’m planning on using this music for a student piece, but I thought I’d throw it on to see what it looked like.  It’s really funny how the music totally changes the feel of a piece.  If you’d like to see the original check out my website.

Full Sail Student Gallery Flyer

Here’s a flyer I just finished for the Full Sail Student Gallery. I’ve had this image of the colors of light floating around in my mind for a while now. My foundation for this comes in no small part from my good friend Ben Phenicie who does a lot of work with bright colors… of the neon persuasion. Ha ha… any way, as a new student I’m pretty excited that this will be used school wide.

Digital Cave Painting

I actually don’t like this piece. But in the interest of keeping an accurate log of my design work at Full Sail, I decided to include it any way. We were given an assignment to do a digital painting which mimicked either prehistoric or medieval art. Obviously I chose to do a prehistoric cave painting. This image actually popped into my mind as I listened to “Robot Rock” by Daft Punk. I think it was the phrase “robot rock” being repeated over and over again that influenced my decision to place the two Daft Punk guys (who coincidentally look like robots) on the face of a rock. I was actually working on a medieval piece when it hit me, and having just impressed myself by my own whit, I decided to scratch what I was doing and work on this.