motion:art:design

This is a really beautiful piece of stop-motion animation by Javan Ivey, who I found out about on IndyMogul.com. See an interview with him at: http://tinyurl.com/l5yspq

And check out the video he made:
http://vimeo.com/6731192

My submission for the “Threadless Loves….Innovation!” challenge. On the theme of…you guessed it…innovation! Voting on this starts in a few days (whenever they get around to approving it). If you like cool tees, check out Threadless.com (and vote for me! So I can get a free vacation to Las Vegas). Vote here: 3 Little Pigs in Space

I’ve been learning more about the particle generators and emitters in Maya.  I made this simple animation with a plane set as an emitter, with the particles set to Multistreak and inheriting the colors of a rainbow gradient that was mapped to the plane.  I then applied a vortex field, along with a light and a camera, and voila.   Still working out the kinks on the Youtube compressors, so sorry for the slight pixelation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np9P5qbpazk

Here’s a link to a video sketchbook scene I made in Flash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY6ovbmRS5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

This is a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator.

Inspired by Dennis King’s “Art of Modern Rock Mini #2: Poster Girls” and also Molly Crabapple. I’m especially happy with the way the border turned out.

So here’s a steampunk blaster I composited in Photoshop using a bunch of antique tools scattered around my folks’ garage.  Check it.