Exhibiting Motion Graphics Work

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Here are some examples of how to showcase Motion Graphics on boards. I like the middle one best. I think it would be good to make a layout taht I apply to all of my motion work, so that people will understand the format and be able to navigate easily.

More Grease Videos

Here is another that is more modern:



Very difficult to watch, yet the editing in it and the modern take on can be used in our own. I am liking how the more modern versions have quicker editing. In fact the video will probably be determined by the style of editing we adopt.

Modern Music Videos

Can't seem to log in to greasetheremake.blogspot.com, so I will post some of my research here.

Here are some videos of Summer Nights posted on Youtube. I am looking for videos that show it in a different way, and what worked and what did not.



Here is one done all in sign language. Interesting execution, the different set pieces and changes are more organic and creative than most that I have seen.



Not that innovative, but in the first chorus, the editing between the two groups is nice. It makes for a faster paced piece, different from the first....

Vertov-Kino Pravda

I went to the Tate Modern this week and was very impressed by the exhibition of Rodchenko and Popova. I especially liked the advertising that they did.

Also, there was a video playing by Vertov, with the title sequence by Rodchenko that caught my attention. I have been looking into Vertov's work, since it has such a mysterious quality and vision.

Here is an informational video that I found on youtube:

The Fire

This is a video that I made this weekend. Just editing some old footage that I shot last summer. I want to compile more of my footage to make a larger music video, that is like a video diary of my time in back of a camera.

Final

Here is the final movie that I will be sending into D&AD. I still will want to fix a couple of things in it, but for sake of time I must be sending it off today (if not for my own sanity).

I want to try adding lighting in it, and camera length of focus, as Jon my tutor suggested. Other than that, cool beans, lots of good work. Can't believe I managed, I am pleased with it, and think I made a good use of my time.

My Leader

Here is the leader that I have done. I want a swipe with it, and maybe the colors bars before the numbers. I also liked how there was a flickering of the titles and scribbles before hand, also something that I want to implement.

I think it will give a nice intro into the music video, almost stand as an establishing shot, getting the viewer ready for what they are going to see.

Film Leader

I want to do a film leader for the beginning of the music video, but with chinese numerals. Here is a video for a reference...

More Recent Circles 2

These two represent Monkey trip under the eastern ocean. There he meets the dragon king (the scales on the interior of the second one) and goes to the crystal palace where he gets the Iro rod, his weapon for the length of the opera.
This represents Tripitaka, the monk. There is a Buddhist monk with the beads superimposed over the top. For the colors I looked at a a mini film on what the colors of 2009 are going to be. In a certani part of it, they had a selection of earthy colors, which I thought worked well for Tripitaka. I got a linen material scanned in, with the earthy purple colors and the ying yang.
This is Sandy, who is half pig half human. Ii superimposed a pig's mask on the head of my brother, and the rake is his weapon.

More Recent Circles

Here are the mostly finished images. I have two yet to do, and I want to touch up some of them. Also, they have all been inverted, like the last set. Hmmm, technical stuff.
This one is the part of the play iwth the flesh eating skeletons, what appears to be the blue part is actually red meat...
This one is sandy, the guy has a red beard, like Sandy supposedly does. He wears a necklace of monk's skulls. I chose Damian Hirst's skulls as they bring a modern feel to it. The other blue textures are sand.
This is the mountain of friut and flowers, where monkey is born. There is clouds and the 'falling rock sign' with flowers and fruit.
This is monkey being born. He was born from a rock that had an egg inside of it. So on the outer layer, there is the rock with a mokey silhouette in it, then a layer of egg shells, and a chinese monkey mask in the centre.
This is representing the scene with Buddha's hand closing around Monkey for 500 years. There is Buddah on the outside, with Buddhist hand signals. Then there is a monkey jumping, like monkey did in the play, and Buddha's fist. Lastly there is the 'D' in the middle, which is 500 in roman numerals, representing the five hundred years that monnkey has to stay in the stone.



More coming soonnnnnn

This Week

So, dum dee dum dum. This week has been a week of mnay ideas, with nothing really sticking. I got out a projector on Wednesday, tried to do some body projections, and ended up with two very sore eyes. The look was not what I wanted and if I was to get the right effect it would mean managing many people and lots of face paint, so I decided it wasn't for this project.

I finally settled on the idea of zooming through the various scnes of the Opera, with a combination of Buddhist imagery. I did some scans last week of chinese japanese and indian patterns, and in going through the chinese ones I found many that were circular, elborate but linear (meaning that I could fill in the various cavities with my own images and patterns). After doing a couple of them I remembered in doing a tutorial on how to earth zoom about parenting the layers all together, so that if you scaled the one on top up, all the others would get larger and it would appear to be sooming thorugh (instead of key framing each ofht elayers to go together). I am now working on filling in the circular things with images of the opera. It is going to be the patterns like in many of the enlightenment videos I saw on you tube, but with images telling the story of it.

I am still establishing what kind of style they will be. I like the combination of modern day items with story (east meets west). I need to make sure that the speed of it is correct, very nice transition sin the music, so I need to make sure all of the images are well timed...

water test

This is a test to see different video with illustration over it. I am not entirely pleased with it on its own, but with other elements in the shot, it could be very efective.

lotus opening

Here is a test I did last night, to see how I can make a lotus flower look like it is blooming. Although bad image and not perfectly done, the motion looks fine and works.

Truearmy's videos on youtube

The first 'year of the rat' is by this truearmy fellow. I like his work, would be a lot of fun doing interesting animation with the images.











I love the tap with money coming out


Here is one by a different artist:

More Chinese animtions

I have fondness in my heart for bad graphics. I really like the pixelation and the bright colors. It is not taking things too seriously. Just doing.

Great intro

Nice transition into painting and then into story. Powerful and coolio

Cool Chinese CG Animation

Lotus

Today I have been researching key images for chinese and buddhist art. I found some great images and symbols for the piece. I found the lotus to be a key element in buddhism, which also lends itself to the music quite well. The harpsicord, or whatever that noise is, seems like a flower opening.

Here are some time lapse videos of how a lotus flower opens:



For lack of videos here are some other flowers blooming:

Transitions that I like

Here are some transitions that I like:




The picnic basket makes an easy transition on the eyes. I have always liked that part.



I'm sure I have already put this up, but this video has amazing transitions between scenes. Something that I tried to emulate in one of my last projects, but did not have the time to do. Hopefully it will prove to be fruitful for this one!

I am still on the look out...

Inspiring

Been a couple of days since my last post. To be honest I was having a hard time rapping my head around the brief, the music, and what I really wanted to get out of this project.

I have been doodling in my sketchbook, trying to figure out what I would want to spend my time doing. Looked at a bunch of music videos, read some stuff on 'enlightenment', trying to get a feel of the undertone of the book and character motivation at this point in the story. It is a very strange song, even translated it does not give much insight into the characters. I went to waterstones to buy 'Monkey' the book, sat down and tried to find the right point of the book so that I could read that and the previous chapters, to try and get a feel of the setting, but it didn't have it. I looked on every page! At least I read it in the store and didn't buy it (although it will be a nice read one day).

I looked at enlightenment images and music videos, found some pretty funky stuff, very low budget, but I like that grungy quality. I have been on motionographer a billion times, and found nothing that really caught my eye, in terms of inspiration. Just went on, however, and found this sight:http://www.sant.at/mtv/SantaMotion_AcessoMTV.mov. Really really cool. I like the transitions, I like the abstractions, and I think this is the direction that I am going to head in for my piece. I was thinking of doing a half animation half real time, but I was not feeling it. It all seemed very bait and predictable. I tried to work out how it could be done subtley but I really can't get my head round it.

I think this type of style offers mystery, and the non-linear narrative shows that it is not only a journey that the charcters were on, but a mental journey, one that is not bound to one direction. Wow, that sounds so deep. I am going to explore how I can make this work....

Did I mention that I downloaded the "Forbidden Kingdom" with Jackie Chan and Jet Li? """"""""""""""""based""""""""""""""""""" on the story of the monkey king, thought it would help get to understand the story better, and I feel less like a human being now. The movie took a little part of my soul that I am not sure I will get back.

Looking around for enlightenment

I am currently looking about the web for how others have shown enlightenment in animation. I am trying to figure out what the focus of the msuic video is going to be, whether the spiritual side of it, the journey the characters, I am not sure...

I found this animation on Buddha:



Not really that impressive. Same visual style throughout, but I am looking for something that uses the old chinese style in a new way...

Text morph

I did some scans tody at the library, btu my internet is lacking in speedage, so I'll post them when it goes a bit faster.

I want the text to come out of the character's mouth and morph from chinese to chinese roman alphabet to english. I was a-surfin' looking for this and the FIRST thing I clicked on was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Someone wanted to change something in chinese to english by morphing it on creative cow. Then someone asked to see the images, and then did it for him, and uploaded the files to show how he had done it, including the AE file! I got to go into it and see how it was contructed, so now I need to find the original chinese characters and try it out for myself.

Totally wicked cool score, stoked, baby.

Okay, before I get carried away

My thoughts are going 1000 miles per hour, so I am going to lay down what I have been thinking so that I can get back to it:

I was between doing the Edward Lear project and Monkey 'Pigsy in Space' video for D&AD, and have settled on Pigsy, for a couple of reasons:

It would all be similar style and accomplishing one narrative, which I like.

I researched it before the last project and have already laid some ground wrok for what I want which is:
Using imagery that combines east and west, which appeals to me muchos; focusing on upping my skilllls in music videos, and I love Monkey Journey to the West.

This morning was when I was making the decision and I came upon the blog of Ray Tindori of Court 13, who did the "Evident Utensil' for Chairlift. I have been thinking about doing something similar, although lacked the knowledge of how to do so, and I got super super jealous when I saw the video that I had not done it first. I saw the video a couple of weeks ago and peroused the internet in search of how it was done and today I actually applied myself to finding ohow it was done, and got the link to a blog with Ray Tintori walking us step by step how to:


http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/search/label/datamoshing


Anywhoos. I like the Kanye video as well, a bit more clean. For My video I want it to tell a story, by using images. I thought and thought and thought and decided that datamosh was not right for the entire video. I don't like the idea of ripping off someone's work completely, for it is a style added when there is not that much content. Datamoshing seems like a western art form, thus I think it will be a nice addition to the music video, like in concentrated pockets of the video, instead of at every transition.


Now I am pretty much caught up on this thing, back to the board.

extras

Final Movie for Degree Show

Here is the final animation for the meeting on Tuesday. Took me two days non-stop to do, I started losing touch with reality from staring and interacting with only a screen. But I am glad I did it and got it done, was worth it.

Promotional Material

This is the promotional material that would be the only thing sent out, everything else being digital. I really like this, think it catches the eye and is funny. Marky mark....what a character.

rollover final

Here is an example that I made of how the website will be navigated. I work much better visually, and over time, thus this was the clearest way to get what I saw in my head out. I think it helps create the illusion that it is a real site to viewers.

Titles and Sound

These posts are back dated, as I could not do them with my slow internet connection, or convert them properly with quicktime.

This video times the music, so that when I finished the storyboard I had a clear idea of when I should have expected the categories to come in.

The fun I am having

This is currently what I am looking at.

Rollover Example

Here is an example of how the rollovers will reveal the images of the categories. When a user clicks on a category the picture will disappear to reveal the student's work in that category.

Website roll over ideas

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Here are the rollovers for the website. Although I have done more visuals, they will be part of the motion piece. I have boiled it down to six categories that people will fall into: design for print, web design, illustration, motion, photography, and interactive. Although there are sub layers to the categories, this is how people will fall into categories on the website. Perhaps this will be a replacement for the book that normally gets lost or not achknowledged. The money normally spent on making the book can be spent on making a website, that is easily accessible and immediate. Get companies and people to see things immediately.

Website roll over ideas 2

D-Sign Illiteral Campaign and Mark

Here is the poster and calendar. The 'brand' is simple and effective, so it can work on many levels, whether that be a letterhead or on a poster it. I hope it is clear enough, it is d-sign ('dee'sign=design, like what we are studying, design, ya know?)


Under is the either viral or mail sent calendar, which is Mark Wahlberg without his shirt. On the back there is a shitty calendar, which above says 'Don't forget Mark, your calendar'. Yuk yuk yuk. Metaphors help people remember whilst learning, so they should also help keep Nottingham Trent on the mind.

D-Sign Illiteral Campaign

I brainstormed what else would be an element to design, checked out a G.D.book from the library and made a neat little list. I like this idea, as it is almost making fun of ourselves, not taking it too seriously.

Here are the different categories with their pictures. These would be in the viral, as well as in the degree book. Because we are designing for designers I thought this would be a good way to get their attention. It is almost a secret code that only designers would get, think it could be quite fun.

D-Sign Illiteral Capmpaign 2

Great 50's images on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/retrorenovation/page2/

cool images from the 1950's for future use...

Design Show Promotions

Ganderin' on youtube produced these videos that students and design companies have made for their own show promotions:






This was done by stardust, a company that I really admire. This is nicely executed, but I am not a fan of the design style...




Kingston University








This has a nice concept behind it, the concept of waiting for the degree show. I like promotions with concepts so that it communicates more than the work itself.



Coventry Degree Show, nice idea, looks great, but not that much behind it.





Compilation of student work from Singapore. Meh.

Forgot to put up the graphic design phrenology...

Made this as I was brainstorming ideas about graphic design last night...

I am a big fan of medical 1970's esque design. I love phrenology images, and thought this captures of cool side of graphic design. What a graphic designer' head would look like...




This is put against a background. I saw in a design brochure this morning in tutorial that I really liked. Called 'freight' nice composition and style. Modern, but funky. It would live in a studio appartment in an up and coming neighbourhood, if I was to go as far as to anthropomorphise it.




Here are some scans that I did...









I want my style to be modern-old fashion. Want it to be mature, yet playful, sue old images in a new design kind of way. I am still trying to figure out what that would look like, but it sounds great in my head.

Eye-deas

Here are some ideas for showing the various elements of GD.

Taking the words literally, just playing around with the subjects...




This one may be too abstract. It is supposed to be mask and key frame... this one is still on the drawing board...
This works well. It's cute, very GD. This one works much better than the other one... I like the pattern background (although would be colour coordinated to match the interior of 'room'), I like the type, the composition. good tings.



Maybe they will be inside of the phrenology head in the rooms, or maybe a separate piece.


I have been thinking about the different rooms interacting together. I read 'behind the scenes' on the hbo voyeur, lots of choreography, special effects and editing to make it run smoothly. The various rooms interacting to create something may be too ambitious for a two week project. My idea was to use live footage superimposed, but I am going to brainstorm other ways of getting it done.

Brainstorm session

Mike and I are working on the project together. We brain stormed some ideas today and came up with doing an interactive phrenology type piece. It is based on the mind being an idea machine.

Here is an image with which we shall be working:
We want the various parts of the mind to become synonymous with design. A certain section for typography, a certain one for editorial. Tonight we are going to think of ideas and (wait for it) visual metaphors for the various areas of design. Then the idea is to do a kind of red house interactive approach, where we zoom into the head and the inner 'rooms' are revieled to show the 'factory' that is going on... good good times...

Some stuff I have been playing with...

Here is a test for a 'brand' of mirrors into windows. This is a composium of various images I scanned in last week. I'm not crazy about this, but I like the style, I have been playing around with the various combinations of images to find the style. I want slightly dark, I see vignette. I want to do something similar to the 'ideation', with collage elements.

I was playing scrabble on friday night, and I thought of using the letters in my piece...

I made my own, although I hate how similar they are. But I do think it would work well in the piece....

From what I take from the quote "the point of education is to make mirrors into windows' in regard to graphic design, is that we are able to not just see a reflection, like most people, but see opportunity. In this sense I am thinking of making a slightly abstract piece, it will relate to graphic design, but not obviously. Using the signs and symbols of graphic design (kerning, typefaces, layouts, rulers, ect.) that come out of everyday objects.


The other pieces are variations trying to find a 'dark' way of doing it. I am not finished in the least with the idea, but here is my beggining.



I have been trying to find a graphic style for the piece, here is some stuff that I have been making the past couple of days...