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Slowly migrating my site over to RapidWeaver

I've had enough of the Web interfaces, I want it all local from now on! Anyway. Soon I will have some sort of code compliant site. I have been hand coding with Tables in HTML for far too long.

MMMM Donuts...

I am starting to get the hang of modeling/texturing/rendering...
Here's some Donuts for a site.

Back from Alaska IPA

Here it is. A bit of hand-lettering design for a very special home brew. Beer making is almost as time consuming as motion graphics.

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Little Red Robot Corporate Work for Google

Here's a job I did for Little Red Robot, it was for a conference for Google's OSO divisions. I did this whole thing all big like, 1920 by 1080. I was staggered by how much processing and render time it took with three computers cranking on something simple like this. I used google earth for the initial pull out from Google headquarters, I used video Gogh for the chalk like effects, and c4d for the 3d animations. I am using CS_Tools almost entirely for camera moves in c4d now. Actually, I use cs_Tools for just about everything in c4d. The image_plane script plus cs_tools pretty much gets rid of a lot of my need for AE, except for the fact that making stuff in AE still warms the cockles of my heart. I need some sort of joy to get me though the day in these end-of-days, economic collapse-y good times. I also have some other corporate work to upload- stuff that just isn't quite interesting enough for the front page, but I should probably have uploaded somewhere anyway. I also have worked on a bunch of work that I don't own, so can't show, (a lot of which was created for a certain "fruit" company) but I might find some creative ways to at least show some of the processes of creating it here.

More et cetera

I'm kind of having fun going through old projects to post stuff. Should I post on the main page? Who knows. This project was for an architect friend who was entering a contest called "free the box". It was for a new jersey locale where they were reclaiming shipping containers to be used in some kind of mixed use residential environment. My friend Ashton (the designer), concepted his ideas in google sketch up, but then reprinted them and hand drew everything, giving it a friendly, sketchy, and loose (dare I say "Juno"-esque?) kind of vibe, so I tried to pick a color scheme and identity that would match that aesthetic. I can see this stuff in motion.

workr (ashton's site)

Micro Updates

I haven't been exactly diligent about keeping up appearances, this blog, the front page of the site, or updates of any kind. I have a lot of deritus and fill in graphics work that 1)hasn't really been categorized, 2)isn't really motion graphics, or 3)I felt the distaste of client relations still in my mouth to keep me from posting the work here. But, like whiskey, things sometimes improve with age. I will try and "micro" post some old and new work up here before I do a "Major" revision to my front page.

Anywho, here's some work from waaayy back in 2006, some book covers and marketing material junk I designed at my time with Ursa Minor Arts & Media. There's more around here somewhere, I just thought I would try and get some little posts up here and there.

Projects include "Death on the learning curve", "Love is the solution", "Yoga Moods", The Earthdance Festival, and the Harmony Festival.

Concepts:








Final Implementation:












Harmony Fest t-shirt (I did the whole campaign, but it never really looked that "*good" -*Technical Design Term):


Earthdance. I did the "Turtle" Design:


Yoga Moods Cd cover:

No Post-ville

Ok Ok,

So I haven't exactly kept up the blog since I got back from India. Bloggin' is hard work, I can't believe all of these people that do it for free- you basically have to be incredibly inward navel gazing or self indulgent or have a lot of time on your hands, or some sort of combo of all of these to keep it up. I don't even know if that last run on sentence needs the usual self editing I do on this thing - that's the other thing, I'm probably way too neurotic to ever make casual blog posts without over analyzing every word.

Anyway, I have a ton of new content for the site (6 major projects since India!) and will probably be revamping for 2008 soon enough. I have been instructing Motion Graphics at the Academy of Art University and look forward to this blog to being a resource for my students- I might switch back to discussing graphics and posting After Effects files and links to various projects.

Cheers!
Colin
Movecraft

India Animation Dept.

NPR has a story on outsourcing animation to Mumbai, apparently Rhythm and Hues has built a big facility out. The story is worth a listen.

Many Indian animators are thirsty to bring their experience and art to an Indian film with Indian themes. Hopefully the exchange of ideas and art, even in this commercial environment, can be two ways.

Namaste

Well, I'm floating back to SF for a bit to work with phoenix edit. Since the shoot is delayed and I am getting paid by the job instead of by the hour, I figured heading back to SF and picking up some work is the way to go before I come back for the shoot in Feb. I will still be happy to upload and post to the blog, particularly when I go backpacking in March.