Oh The People You'll Meet

In between a few After Effects CS3 tutorials today, I took a break from staring at the computer to sketch a bit. The three heads on the right seem like they could all be part of the same adventure.

More!!!! More?

You know how it is. :)

This is a sketch I just finished and I think it would be nice to do a series of em on canvas with ink and acrylic... well... at least next time I'm feeling a little more like sketch 2.

Philosophy Video for new MS Website

Here is a quick animation that I put together for the Philosophy section of the new Mediasauce website with Larry's help on initial concept, Mitch as writer and voice talent, Mike as the Creative Director, and Andy as audio extraodinaire. It was nice to have some freedom on the direction of the design and animation style. I enjoyed sketching some of the elements with a pen that were included in the design, and it was fun to jump into Maya briefly to create the root animation. Thanks for the Maya crash course Joseph!

I have to say, the project went relatively smoothly until I tried to mess with the temporal properties of my position key frames in the graph editor. I dont quite understand why the key frame splits or why you cant angle the handles to make the curve you're after. It's something I definitely need to investigate further because it was driving me crazy! I look forward to spending more time on the next piece like this one and incorporating more pizazz and 2ndary movement.

Here's an image of the design I used for the animation. The photos all came from personal travel photos I've taken and the flower designs are the result of some fun with pen and ink. I liked how they turned out and would love to make a funky fabric based on them at some point.

This Year's Holiday Greeting from Mediasauce

Here's this year's Holiday greeting from Mediasauce. Vince, Dan, and I did the white board time-lapse illustration, and Mike and Mitch worked together on the interface.

Click here to watch the greeting.

Indy Green Tips Tshirt Designs

Here at Mediasauce I was in charge of organizing a day where everyone in the company would devote 5 hrs of service to our community. Everyone worked together to create a PSA of sorts that shares small ways that everyone can work together to help make Indy a greener place. I'll share more about the project once it launches. For now, I'll just share a tshirt design that I put together for it using some of the design elements we created on our day of service.

Click here to see my other t-shirt designs

Bookend with Audio

After working with Andy on what I was thinking on the audio, he produced this lovely sound track for the bookend. Dan made the scurry sound for us with a couple pencils on a pad of paper. Well done guys!!!

Mediasauce.TV Bookends

I've been working on a little bookend animation for the videos that will be posted on mediasauce.tv The "network" hasn't launched yet, but should sometime within the next couple weeks. Dan created this little tv character that will be used throughout the site. A lot of the videos will be that low fi production feel so I wanted to animate his little character to feel that way as well. I liked the idea of seeing the paper flip and change as the poses changed and gave a slight wiggle to the lines of the tv character to simulate that hand drawn wiggle. (It's a bit hard to see on the small video) I've still got some sound effects and a nice little music track to add. Dan is going to play some snare drum for the music track. I cant wait to get it all together.