Personal Logo

This is the process in which i created my personal logo.

  Honestly when we started i had absolutely no ideas i spent about a class period and a half thinking about what i was going to do. after the thinking process i started to sketch my ideas out on paper.

I went through a variety of sketches, some of which i don't know what i was thinking because they are awful and need to be burned immediately.













The next step i took was to finalize my favorite sketches then present them to the class for review and ideas. after the review I picked my favorite and fine tuned it, and here it is my new personal logo.

e-comm Magazine cover

    For this project we were tasked with creating a magazine cover for our e-comm program. It took some thinking but after a while i realized that the Rolling Stone cover was a perfect template for what i was wanting to do. So rolling ravens was born, i tried to find a font similar but not exactly the same as Rolling stone. The next thing i did was put a mac on their and covered up the apple symbol with the e-comm logo. i liked the mac idea but it was missing something so i went to the programs website and downloaded one of the free desktop wallpapers and slimed it down to fit on the Mac. After the main chunk was done i added some page numbers and catchy phrases to the side as kinda a pre index and ended before i could add to much so here is the final product.

Explosion

We were asked to folk a tutorial for making a building window explode.

the hardest part of the project was getting the masks just right. If they were off then you had a random brick engulfed in flame or pard of the lamp post which looked really bad.

After the fire was set you had to add the glass and dust which wasn't hard but you had to get the timing just right to look realistic.

This is the final product, I'm very happy with it. 

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.