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Red, a nice little short animation I came across just there. It’s like Little Red Riding Hood but not. Super cool though.

Red from Hyunjoo Song on Vimeo.

Cool Vintage Advert Collection (via Barry Hand)

Learn to spell.

Pretty awesome Parkour Stop Motion Video thingie.

Sometimes, just sometimes, people are stupid.

Frozen Britiain. We thought we were bad!

A tutorial to create a little cool kid in photohop.

Well, two actually. Firstly, I’m making a book of designers from various “isms” such as constructivism, futurism, dadaism, pictorial modernism etc.

An example of Cassandre's (Pictorial Modernism) Work

I’ve decided to make the front and back cover out of metal (much like the Futurist’s manifesto) but maybe mix it up with some other “ism” just to add some more interest.

I’ve to design the inside pages as well which will be equally important. It’ll be tough to keep a consistency between so many different styles of artistry.

Secondly, I’m making a children’s book. I’m much less certain about this at the moment as the designer book is due first and so it’s on my mind the most.

I’m interested in a tactile book and maybe something “make and do” but I really have so set myself a target age group before I can start designing and this will also limit what I can actually do.

Enough for now, I’ll post photos when it’s done.

I’ve made a new wallpaper for myself in photoshop. Unfortunately it’s only currently available in 1280 x 800.

Feel free to download and use it yourself and as always, criticism and critique are welcomed.

From Flock Photos

Kinetic Typography. I really can’t get enough of this stuff. It really is wonderful to watch and it’s really is just so impressive what can be done with just text. Here is a collection of some of the best ones I’ve come across over the past 2 weeks or so.

And this guy combines the typography with real footage to really cool effect.

This dude is kind enough to explain how it’s done.

Kinetic Typography Tutorial from Elrond Hubbard on Vimeo.

And here is another Tutorial over at AE Tuts aswell that I was made aware of thanks to Sean O’ Grady

Anyone have any better ones to show off or link to? I’m gonna try my hand at this over the summer. It can’t be that hard, riiiiiight?

This is a DVD like menu from an end of year project. The Project will be made in Director and will have my Flash Animation, My Short Film, images and whatever else I can cram into the extras section.

On another note, the Toy Project that I’m currently working on is nearing completion. The Toy project is a challenge to combine a childs toy and a keyboard to creative and interesting effect. I’ve just about finished the wiring of the electronics which took  A LOT longer than originally planned. A full report on what exactly I had to do will be up over at the group’s blog www.seabasshunterproject.wordpress.com for those interested.

Toodles for now

Usually one would not make such a big who ha about such a thing but here’s something I whipped up in about 2 mins. Obviously I didn’t draw Ryu, I just cropped and scaled it down and added a border. I’m awesome like that, I guess.

Any thoughts?

Mr Beanie’s Desk

Originally uploaded by imLOSTirl

An illustration of a desk I did for an upcoming animation for college. What do you guys think?

I got a Graphics Tablet for Christmas and I’ve hardly used it which is a sin. So, I broke it out today and for no other reason than because I wanted to, I painted Barack Obama using Photoshop. Just remember that it’s pretty much the first time I used the tablet. It was pretty fun to do. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do next?

A good few actually!


I’ll start with Project Management. Basically, we have to take a toy, take it apart, use the buttons and what have you, and take the output of these buttons and turn them into inputs into the computer using Director. It’s fun and I’ll have a load of updates here when it actually gets going. As part of the assignment we also have to setup a dedicated blog to mark our progress so I’ll link to that when it’s up aswell.

Second is Multimedia Tools and Techniques which is basically Flash and Illustrator class. I have to create characters and make a 60 - 120 second animation on whatever theme I want. All has to be designed in Illustrator and then brought into Flash to actually animate it and make it all lovely and shiney. Again, updates when I actually start it all.


Thirdly is Digital Editing which is Final Cut class for everyone not in my course. Basically, I have to create a 30 second montage with the emphasis on the passing of time. I have to shoot the video myself and edit it as I see fit. I already have an idea for this one so it shouldn’t be too hard. *crosses fingers*


Fourthly and finally is Digital Editing again. This time it’s a 60 to 120 second video which is supposed to incorporate as many types of media as you can with original content gaining more marks than stuff nabbed of Youtube. It also has to be directly related to and have some elements of the Animation (stated above) in it. So, it has to be a prequel, equal or just be something involving it and it needs to include original recorded sound, video and animations. An example given in class was say, there is a shot of a T.V. onscreen. Our job would be to replace what is on the T.V. with  video of our own. Again, I have an idea for this one aswell so it should be cool.


It’s all go but it’s all good at the same time. I’m actually really looking forward to the rest of the semester. There are a few more minor projects thrown into the mix so I’ll post them when they are all done and dusted.