This is what I would love my DVD to look like...it probably won't

I like to create DVDs...I actually took down what I initially wrote in the copyright lines. It had something or something about directors being bullshit and not really doing stuff. I almost made it 'Seen by' instead of 'Directed by'..good shit really. But no I thought no! be the bigger man, don't do shit like that! Since nobody reads this blog I'll just put it out there, Fadim and I have done too much for the film, and this would explain why we have similar styles in our design.

go dvd go dvd go!

It looks like five...

but it may be 10, the amount of fucking times I have rendered this title sequence is beyond me.

I changed one little thing and ...OK LETS RENDER THAT AGAIN WOOT WOOT!

fuck this shit, my computer is slowing down like a mother fucking sloth. I will call you sloth now until I wipe you and make myself think you're new again :)

fads and me...bitches

I photoshopped fad's face onto a picture of me and my mate Andrew at our graduation. Our story has us being old friends who studied together and need a job. So I photoshopped a few photos of us living together. Fun times!

Why did i post this now? Because this scene is a mother fucking bitch and has been causing me problems in my title sequence :)

GTA PICS

NO I DID NOT BUY GTA....not yet anyway.

Due to the release of GTA V everybody can't help but compare my posters to GTA. Yes they both go for the painted art work style, yes it has a focus on the people in the shot. I swear if GTA did not come out 2 weeks ago this comparison would have never happened.  Thank you Oli for bringing it up and not letting it down. At least mine looks alright? right? guys? Right?!

300gsm paper

Sometimes you just need to restart making your box, and I did it! At least the folds will work a bit better . IT'LL FIT IN AN SRA3 WOOT WOOT, makes printing a graphic on it easier. Just need to create that bitch :)

Stressville population everyone, especially me

you know what...I'm sitting here trying to enjoy my dinner, yes I am having a later dinner, and all I can think of is shit...I have so much left to do and I am fucking dying. Dying in my head...breaking down. Fuck, just fuck too much shit to do

50 BLOG POSTS

need to relax, have a water and chill the fuck out, files are ready, i hope, they're on a usb. I think...OMG PANIC ATTACK

jokes

I just want to dance like this guy

This is for presentation today

so much after effects

stuff, shit, crap

sometimes you just sit and eat your dinner of creamy chicken and rice and think...what the fuck do I need to prepare for thursday's hand in...hmmm...ahhh....baaaah...WHAT WAS THAT NOISE?!

ghost..

who know what that was. I sit here writing this blog and think, how should I do my opening segment, how do I do my title sequence?

well I'll need

HAMILTON PRICE

JAMES STEPHENS

trident productions presents

art director

bloody hell

You know like...I get told to add one more thing into my style guide and its like...fuck mother fucker fuck, how do I add that shit. I try to edit with premiere and add the special effects in Aftereffects and life is like no. fuck you, no, your laptop can't handle that shit. but then i get it working, but now i don't know if its time with the music and things go crazy...fuck this

I vitelloni (1953) looking at the beginning

Just looking at the title sequence, its simple, its easy, no need to do anything too drastic

GIVE THESE MEN OSCARS

One can dream right?

Watch the title sequence

Why did I post this here? Well I wanted to get into the headspace that is Italian Neorealism. Looking at the design and how things fade in and out. I don't plan to just do fades but I will have them there. The type is simple which I want to try recreate with akzidenz medium condensed. Initially I intended to use garagegothic but wanted a more hard edged sans to go with the strong typeface that is bodoni poster condensed.

story board in sixty seconds

I put this in here because I'm looking for a lot of inspiration from here. I want to create the story board which almost mimics this, but not really. I just like how it tells a story, the background of the characters. Its great, lets do something like this!

Fadim made Fong look at POV BBW

thats disgusting Fads, you're terrible.

Fong wanted to know what fads was doing for his style guide and he told her he was doing a POV BBW. Only fong would fall for such things.

CD popping in your face

I want to create this, I think I can too, just need to create a few tabs, maybe boxboard? NO I will use some card, hope I have a good scoring tool handy.

CD packaging concept the Flipdisk by Chung Dha

looking at CD packaging. I'd love to be able to say damn...I could make this

Developing a logo for the movie

A story of two friends, one job. A story of Friendship and Contest.

I chose the typeface Bodoni because it is a good, strong and impacting typeface with a sense of authority. It also hints at the background of the movie genre being Italian Neorealism. Just had to fix the kerning, as the letters in friends are spread out.

Blog Blog Blog

Blog Blog...Blog Blog blog blog BLog blOg BLOG...just waiting for jodie and oli to start class, taking a while. I think Billy Blue gets it too easy. At Sydney Uni we had no wireless, no computers for ourselves and definitely no weebly thing. First world problems...these kids need to harden up

here's a cat being eaten by a shark

Get up and go

Infamous around these parts for being utter garbage. LOVE IT

Robert Carter Animated PC

My final animated design. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Maybe I need more wave noises but its simple. Oli seems to like it. Hopefully Jodie likes it too but I can't help but feel that Jodie will be wondering where the water drips have gone.

Rob

draft3 of animated PC

Why yes, this is my third draft. I did 15 drafts for my advertisement for She'll be Right.
Why don't I do less in this one? Its slowly killing my computer. I think its time to upgrade.
Your shout? no...fuck you. ha! love you guys. nobody reads this :(

Honda "Hands"

dad sent this over, rather amazing stuff, pretty cool and offers inspiration

She'll be Right Advertisement

For interactive spaces but I used after effects...fucking love it...the program. this I like, its good, i hope

Test Footage - Fadim

You know what I found funny...I passed this off as test footage for a film I am doing haha. Classic. Oli even watched it. hehe

animated production company draft 2

Sandstorm, Call of Duty and Pulses...is mine still there?

I think what is awesome about this video...is!!! not the fact that it starts out with the same song that I used in my Get up and Go, NOT THAT HE USED A VIDEO OF CALL OF DUTY...which I used to be so good at but design killed that.

I like the idea of a pulse...especially with what I have in mind. Will post a vid soon of my animated logo in progress i promise!

I reckon I could create this

I'll probably get shot and torn to pieces for typography or my layout and just damn corny shit but it'll get me the job.

Something sort of Neorealist?

So we are told to do something in the style of our genre. My genre is Italian Neorealism. You know what the opening credits are like in that genre? FUCKING BORING. I guess I put beetlejuice above because it kind of reminded me of the style, JUST PUT EVERYTHING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN AND IT WILL DO. I think I will get bad marks if I do that

What do you do now after fail?

YOU MOVE ON AND BE BAD ASS! That explosion in the background, thats how I have to think of get up and go, it was where we make the mistakes. I wanted to try and throw a kitchen sink at the wall and see what I could produce, fuck these stories of morning wood and wanking then walking out a door. Who else had three people in one shot? NOBODY

How I felt after putting my Get up and Go on the big screen

COMPLETE FUCKING FAILURE

Creating Trident

In redeveloping the the trident symbol to use elements of perpetua I tried to create a logo which had a bit more flow. There is less of a STOP AND LOOK moment at the trident E and more, yes, it seems to be part of the type. The only difference would be that it is a odd looking E

Creating a new trident, I wanted to take elements from Perpetua Bold italic especially looking at the D to recreate the E. The top image was a mix of three D's I used to create a new shape which faced the other way and carried the angle and sweeping motion of the italic letters. Flipping the D's around and upside down I tried to create a shape which followed the curvature of Perpetua. Why did I choose perpetua? Because Eric Gill was a sculptor who used to create type. His original type faces were very much inspired by the chiselled letter forms he created. This reminded me of the Ancient Roman Type, which I could link back to the Roman God Neptune, who carried a trident. The Italic nature was used to create movement which I would bring into the animation.

The E in the middle image was accompanied with the N, but I chopped them up and used the E for size reference. The Serif parts of the front would be used to create the middle of the trident. The aim was to create a trident head which was made completely of parts from the original typeface.

Learning Aftereffects

I like to watch Tutorials on how to do shit...sometimes. As much as I love the program and want to test what I can do, I am annoyed that I don't put enough time into it

I PLAN...

TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS ON AFTEREFFECTS ONE DAY! FUCK YEAR

ideas

You know what, I don't think I will do poseidon as a horse raping sisters. Thats kind of weird, but what I do plan to do is slow motion then building speed of him thrusting his trident into the word trident.

Snail's pace

Since I have started using after effects....my damn computer just gets slower and slower...like its so bloody annoying. Bah. Close enough programs and it will get better

A work in progress

Something I was working on for trident. Of course the bloody rabbit won't be there, jeez. Can't be too safe nowadays. Better than putting a condom over the logo. The idea came from a mixture of 300 and the statue of Neptune. The animation would be somewhat like the 300 comics.

How to create a logo?

I dont' know why but I am having a bit of trouble coming up with the logo for my production company.  After Jodie's class and her saying that it would be great to incorporate our genre into the logo I wanted to try and put in the Roman god Neptune. This could be my way of combining the italian neorealism with my design and make it suitable for the genre.

These were being used for a bit of inspiration

Looking at Production Companies

So this week we looked into logos and symbols and how we can best animate them. Mine is called Trident. After what Jodie said about trying to bring your genre into the logo, I think I will try and design a logo which looks like an ancient roman statue or something. Otherwise I could always go to my typographic logos. What a struggle

Its going to be a rush tomorrow morning, fuck 8:30 starts

I can see myself doing this in the morning, going to be such a bloody rush. I should go to bed, what the fuck am I doing?

this could be fun but i don't think i'm quite there yet

I did not realise aftereffects could do the 3D effects, but I don't know why I am surprised by this, its pretty cool. Maybe at the end of this I will give it a go to create something like this video below. I love a challenge and always tell myself "go big or go home"

Drive | Opening Credits, looking at how to fit type in a context

If you watch closely, the typography sits in line with the context (most of the time for a split second). It would have been all planned out to sit neatly within the space. The italic, script for Drive is nestled parallel with the frame of the car.

This is dark and gloomy

I continue this collection of opening credits to help build a book of inspiration, here's a look at something dark, the strong red against the dark backgrounds really paints the picture for the rest of the film

A touch of Saul Bass

in class we were shown the James Bond Saul Bass opening credits, well here's the Ocean's 11 sequence.

or how about Anatomy of a murder?

I don't think I could create this stuff

Starting Frames

Creating a story board. I'm not usually the type who does comic drawings, but for this task I felt it was appropriate. Above is the first image I drew for my 9 frames. Get up & Go would start in the bed...dead

Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run, a movie which I watched back at school when I was probably in year 10 or younger. Being a german film I found it very difficult to get into, very difficult to understand, very difficult to pay attention to. Especially when the movie replays over and over, its well worth watching at least once, you'll see the same event many times.

Had to do it...another Monty Python Opening

I mean, if I include the holy grail opening I definitely have to put this one up for Life of Brian. It is truly  an amazing piece of art which you will rarely see in other films

screw it, lets look at closing credits

how do you make a comic come to life?

Holy Grail

the strength of music, touch of humour mixed with boring. I think this can show the importance of music

Going to geek out on us?

Coming into semester 4, actually, coming into Billy Blue, if you want to go well, if you want to make that $60 000 HECS debt worth it, you're just going to have to geek out. Geek out in design, make design your life and just embrace it. I used to play rugby all the time and put that first, even my playstation took priority over study, now, you just don't stop thinking about design.

Last night I was at my friend's birthday dinner where I couldn't stop thinking about type, and how to make a logo work with an established secondary language. Fucking ruined the night

Waking up in the Morning

do something like this? not sure about it

Shaun Of The Dead intro

now I know you won't be able to watch this here, but damn this opening sequence is awesome

Cool Movie Openings

This would have to be the best part of Wolverine: Origins I reckon, and I still love it

I just love the emotions of this sequence

The playfulness of this sequence

my most favourite of all

DON'T PANIC

As I sit here on my bed and think back on my day with Advanced Media Integration, I think to myself...damn, if I didn't have Jodie back in first year I reckon I would be shitting myself as she swore, danced and carried on out front like only jodie can. Gotta love her. One of the more animated teachers you will ever get at Billy Blue.

I sit and watch others stress. They panic about not being able to find a button, panic about how many assessments we have, panic about not knowing where the fucking toilet is. Its fucked. Its 4th semester, you think by now people will have learnt that maybe...just maybe you can make it through this...maybe you have been through this before? Maybe you have been through the system and know that you will get shit loads of work. The best thing you should do is take a deep breath, relax, and read the brief. At this point I can't stop thinking of the hitch hiker's guide hence I put it down below.

Sure that chart made things look shit scary with heaps to do, but seriously, if it was too much for us to handle they would have changed it by now and not set it. From all my friends in higher years, I have heard that this semester is great fun. Yes it is long and hard, and time consuming but damn if I can make an awesome movie with the best opening credits that I could ever create, well I can only say I will be happy. I am a communication designer (supposedly) but damn I am looking forward to doing some animations.

...maybe I should of listened to Rasmus and change to digital media.