We, illustration-class, are working on some, supposedly secret, project. This is my favourite referrence photograph, shot during a trip to a factory. The picture is pretty damn nondescript, so despite the NDA-blargh, this should be cool to post… I HOPE!
Seen through the lens of a camera, in 1/1000 of a second welding looks pretty cool. With a better camera, higher ISO and a quicker shutter it might be even prettier. Oh well, my next camera will definitely be a SLR!
I prefer to work with as least layers, as possible, but I am currently working on a job, which requires a lot of seperate layers. This image in particular is going layercrazy. The layers might appear empty, but they have some linework in them. Check out the scrollbar on the side, haha!
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I updated Wordpress to version 2.6, and swapped some plugins. I have replaced Lightbox with a plugin called Shutter. The plugin is quick, easy and has eliminated some issues I had with Lightbox. Shutter automatically resizes images to fit the browser window, has an always visible navigation bar, and closes with a click on the image! Yay.
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Even though the mammoth animation did work well on screen, it didn’t work at all in its desired device. The walking-cycle was made for a Daedaleum (”wheel of the devil”), or the anthropic Zoetrope (”wheel of life”).
It’s project by Rotopolpress, commissioned by group of local museums. The daedaleum is, technically, such a gnarly animation-gadget, that the more fluent and detailed the animation by itself, the less it will work in the device. The tiny printsize doesn’t make it better, too. I tried fixing it by adding contrast, a lot of contrast. I almost tripled the lineweight, and added shadows…
Nothing! Regarding a Zoetrope it’s all about contrast, but more importantly moving shapes. The horse animation, which we had for reference, is not even a full loop. It only shows a third of the full cycle, but the bouncing shape, the flinging of limbs just does its job. A mammoth does not prance around its prehistoric meadows like a young gazelle… It’s, seen through the daedaleum, just a square! Argh, back to the drawing board and making it as simple and rough as possible.
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At the last Rundgang, the annual exhibition at the School of Arts and Design Kassel, I found out about the student-project Bonogoo. It’s a website dedicated to bringing products from design-students to the public. The website is still in it’s beginnings, but I do like the design, the concept as well as some of their products.
Redgarding the Rundgang 2008, I made a Flickr set, here.
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I spotted this tiny fella dangling from my desktop lamp, the other night. a.
I am currently working on a commission, where I have to visualize a mammoth’s walking cycle in 12 frames. I haven’t animated anything since my first semester in art-school, fun. So, here’s a small something. I still have to add some fur.
I am not dead, but busy. Currently working on a couple of jobs, as well as my final exams, which I can’t show, now.
Random doodle.
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Magazine commission. I think I didn’t post this one, yet?
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