Video Copilot Tutorial Project

   Alright so my latest animation project was a tutorial from the site videocopiolot.com. The project was creating a vortex of destructive energy. Instead of using their NY pic as a background i took a picture of my high school's courtyard.

Starts out  simple, import the shot create a cc particle world

At this point I'm far along in the project and fairly happy with it, but i haven't started to mess with it yet. I have changed the settings on the cc particle world to twister to get the vortex/ tornado feel.

 The hardest part of this whole project is keeping track of the particle settings. Personally I think the way its set up is confusing.

So i just duplicated the twister adjusted the size and added an effect to make it dark and kinda out line the original twister. I have also put in kinda lens flare like objects from the tutorial on the bottom to give the energy effect.

 This is the final product with darkened background and scary twister it is complete.

Personal Logo

   So for my personal logo i wanted to keep it simple but tell about me. The G is obviously for my last name, the guitar head is because i love to play my guitar. Finally the speaker is because i love music, its what motivates me in everything i do, and i like it loud!

   This one is an old logo of mine (I'm not proud of it). While it is creative the quality is lacking. It also doesn't tell my story, all this portrays is that I'm a human being. The logo above has a better quality and appeal. 

eMagine Media Festival

     I recently went to the eMagine Festival hosted by my school Olathe Northwest. many schools attended and many aspiring animators, graphic designers, and movie film makers entered their art into the respective categories for judging and the first place prize.
     It was a very fun night with a lot of creative artists. My experience taught me that handwork really does produce the best results, and prep and pre writing and drawing is essential. Im looking forward to next year when i submit my own work and hopefully win, if your on the boarder of coming defiantly come its loads of fun and you learn a lot.

1970's movie poster remade

    My task for this project was to pick a movie from the 1970's or earlier, then use Saul Bass posters as inspiration and modernize it. The movie i chose was Revenge of the Pink Panther. Remaking this was difficult because the original was cartoony and was kinda modern on its own. This is what i came up with.













   Like Saul, I implemented objects that give an idea of what the movie is about. The gun barrel to depict a spy/detective movie, the panther to add the sense of comedy. In the movie poster that Saul Bass created, he add the famous ruby slippers and the yellow brick road. Without words you know exactly what movie it is. While he is significantly better than I am, I think i achieved my goal.

Google

    While studying the multibillion dollar company Google i discovered some secrets about the famous logo we have all come to know. First is that the colors mean something each color has a number and all together is is a six number binary code, 36, 17, 8, 36, 2, 17. Google first wen online in 1996 and became a word in 2006. the time in months between the two events equals 97 months, you get the same number if you add the first four numbers together. the colors where originally made to be all primary colors until the L then they used a secondary to show that Google doesn't follow the rules.

    Every one knows that Google's logo changes from time to time. This program is called doodle for Google, the logo is changed to commemorate a famous person or group of people who helped shape history. so when you see one of these custom designs click on them you may learn something you didn't already know.

The very first doodle was to commemorate the Burning Man Festival of 1998 crated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.