OPPOSE SOPA & PIPA

OPPOSE  SOPA & PIPA

http://sopastrike.com/strike/

Cool Resources

Jes gets a Gold Star for this.

Free Pics

www.morguefile.com

http://www.imageafter.com/index.php

http://www.unprofound.com/

http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php

http://photorack.net/index.php

Free Vectors:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/16/the-ultimate-collection-of-free-vector-packs/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/16/swirls-flowers-circles-a-free-vector-graphics-set/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/12/swirls-vector-illustrations-set/

World Maps Vector

http://speckyboy.com/2010/05/03/25-free-vector-world-maps-ai-eps-and-svg-formats/

Free Patterns

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/12/the-ultimate-collection-of-free-photoshop-patterns/

http://dzineblog.com/2009/09/27-best-websites-to-download-free-seamless-patterns.html

http://bgpatterns.com/

http://designm.ag/resources/650-free-photoshop-patterns/

Vector Backgrounds: 

http://speckyboy.com/2010/04/08/6-free-vector-seamless-backgrounds-source-files/

Toast

A friend of mine put this in front of me.  Excellent stuff.

Roger Ebert featured a nice animation at the Chicago Sun-Times:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/this-slice-is-always-chasing-r.html…

And while I try to never acknowledge the existence of Facebook, he said something interesting…

The director sent me this link. As I watched. I became gob-smacked. Astonishing, how animation makes reality irrelevant.

What I would encourage my MoGraph 1 students to take from this is that with decent command of After Effects, and a very strong sense of story, you can make some worth taking 4 minutes to watch…which is honestly a lot harder that it sounds.

STORY is the most important special effect.

Cheers.

MGFX1 Week 3

In discussing some of the basic principles of animation – timing, motion, exaggeration, etc…we should look at how different classic and contemporary animators have approached these principles.

Walt Disney - Snow White

Walt Disney - Mary Poppins – Penguin Dance

Walt Disney - Fantasia – Walz of the Flowers

Chuck Jones - What’s Opera Doc

Chuck Jones – Coyote and RoadRunner – Whoa, Be-Gone!

Chuck Jones - Coyote and RoadRunner – To Beep or Not to Beep

United Airlines, Dragon

United Airlines: Sea Orchestra

Zune – Intergalactic Swap Meet

MGFX 1 – Week 1

Some links for Week 1 Lecture:

Oskar Fischinger

• Kreise:
  http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/cIrIOrYsD2c/
• Komposition Im Blau:
  http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/kBpPBtQ48v0/
• By Hans Richter: Rhythmus 21 (1921)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCgeyh8Nx4&feature=related 

Norman McLaren

• Synchromy:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqz_tx1-xd4
• Lignes verticales | Lines vertical:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbavAYULUU

Purposes of Compositing – Some Different Examples

• Documentary – Chicago 10:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9uJL7lWdFg
• House MD Opening Credits:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Df6V1CqNS0
• News Graphics:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0PGMqhGPw
• Advertising: MK12 // Budweiser Ad:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMNtHsBBC-U
• Instructional Programming: DNN Rules:
  http://www.derbynewsnetwork.com/roller_derby_rules

Elements of Design

• Color - http://colorschemedesigner.com/
• Annabelle Lee – http://vimeo.com/2111305
• Between Bears - http://vimeo.com/13776542

Some other animation aesthetic theory:

http://www.davidoreilly.com/2009/08/basic-animation-aesthetics

Saul Bass

• http://saulbass.tv/
  
• http://37signals.com/svn/posts/917-title-sequences-from-saul-bass-the-master-of-film-title-design
• North by Northwest:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fNabF8bq_o&feature=related
• Psycho:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw&feature=related
• Anatomy of a Murder:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtRcd-BXQ8&feature=related
• It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1A7bJD3atk&feature=fvst

So….what are the elements of the animation/motion graphics sleight of hand?

‪Duck Amuck‬:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6i2Z6mTRE

Some Useful Links

HELLO.

I am Kristian Perry, a Motion Graphics Artist and Video Editor in Washington DC.

STUDENT WORK:

• MGFX 1: Candy / Strangers
• MGFX 2: Pac(hyderm) Attack!
• History of Animation: Dolphins, Ducks and Beetles
• Thesis Film: Gustave Whitehead: The Forgotten Flier

FREELANCE:

• G.A.P.: Whistle Where You Work Titles, WWYW Ad
• AU Visions Film Festival: Promo and Award Show Graphics
• Center for Social Media: Fair Use Is A RIGHT!

HILLMANN & CARR:

• The evolution of “Frames”: Demo 1, Demo 2, Final

Other Links:

• David O’Reilly and Basic Animation Aesthetics
• Motionographer
• MK12
• Blender 3D
• AE Tuts
• STAND UP while you edit and animate!

FAIR USE IS A RIGHT!!!

I don’t apologize for shouting.

I did a video for The Center For Social Media, an outstanding organization:

The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media. The Center was founded in 2000 by Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor in the School of Communication. As part of the School, the Center offers research assistantships, screenings, master classes and volunteer opportunities to SOC students. The Center also has fellows associated with funded projects, but has no stand-alone funding for fellows.

It’s always a pleasure to work with them, and with Professor Pat Aufderheide in particular!

New Animator On My Radar! (Maybe I Should Stick to Music?)

I’ve long been a fan of David O’Reilly’s animation, as well as his theories of animation aesthetics.  Here are 3  links to understand what I’m talking about:

• http://www.davidoreilly.com/work/pss
• http://vimeo.com/1715318 (which at the beginning borrows from Norman McLaren)
• and http://www.davidoreilly.com/2009/08/basic-animation-aesthetics

HOWEVER — there’s some new guy just coming out of school somewhere in Israel called Eran Hilleli.  He was written up in Motionographer for his outstanding short called Between Bears.  Check it out HERE and don’t forget to click the link and watch a lovely piece.

Eran Hilleli - Between Bears

http://motionographer.com/2010/08/05/eran-hilleli-between-bears/

I’ve got a few ideas for some animations I’d like to do…but they are about 1/4 to 1/2 as cool as this one.  Maybe I’ll let them cook a little longer before I start moving pixels around!

In the meantime, there is a new public library near my place in DC, where I will pick up and read the following books:

http://catalog.dclibrary.org/vufind/Record/ocm57905088

and http://catalog.dclibrary.org/vufind/Record/ocm50948399

I will use these books, plus THESE interesting sounds, to create Music of the Future….even as it exists for you right in the present.

Now…I should perhaps get back to work?

Forgotten Flier is now Remembered, and sent to Slaughter!

Yep, I’ve submitted The Forgotten Flier: The True and Amazing Story of the First Controlled Airplane Flight! to the Vimeo Film Festival.  I submitted it to the Documentary category because:

1. It IS a documentary
2. Most documentaries are boring and self-important (especially many of mine)
3. This documentary was specifically designed NOT to be boring
4. MOST IMPORTANTLY – I’ve got a philosophical thing about expanding the notion of what a documentary is, while still honoring the strand of truthiness and journalistic integrity that is assumed to be part of the documentary art form.

In point number 4, I wrote “art form”….and that’s because documentary is a form of art.  Journalism and Scholarly Research are both very noble and important pursuits.  But they are different than documentaries.  The English Language has  even seen fit to give them different names from each other to help distinguish them.

I may or may not dive into this issue on this blog.  Whatever I write, however witty and profound, will still be a pale imitation of the Truth I received on this topic at the feet of Dr’s Aufderheide and Engel at American University….but reading this blog is free, and tuition at AU is not.

Stay tuned!

Let’s get some awards, eh?

Having had a moment to rest after completing my thesis, I’ve decided to try and put it in festivals. I guess it’s an attempt to externally validate my work. And why not!

To that end, I’ve started up yet another, but more focused, blog.

http://forgottenflier.wordpress.com/

Enjoy!

Kristian