It turns out that I am quite, almost infatuated, with Type. Type and Fonts of all varieties! Today we had a class all about it and aside from the past weeks lessons of Grids and Margins, I AM now having fun. I got to design a bunch of different things today, all centered around the clever use of type to portray either Myself, an Emotion, an Action or a Thing. Was very awesome and I enjoyed it thoroughly. So much so that it made me race home so that I may start finally working on my Kinetic Typography (Moving Type) vid.
Freaking brilliant and since then I have come across THOUSAND's of vids revolving around Kinetic Typography. I just have to get in on this. The first step though, of course, is choosing a Monologue. Unfortunetly two of my favourites are already taken. V's "V Speech" from V for Vendetta and Keifer Sutherland's "Rifle Speech" from Phone Booth (two brilliant films by the way). So now I've got to find something rad that'll look good in type.
Feel free to send suggestions on this one.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
The Superhero Series
I got bored and figured I should practice some Illustrator skills since I have very little. Never mind the fact that I didn't have a sketch or tablet of any kind to do this stuff from, I just winged it on the mouse. Epic old school.
I came up with Flash Bang about 2 years ago. His powers were definitely inspired by Jubilee but as for the rest of him, I can't see. I think I see a little Freakazoid in there which is pretty bad ass.
I'm pretty sure the concept of a renegade priest who goes around offing Vampires, Ghouls, Zombies, Demons and the like isn't any entirely new one. I definitely got the idea from something like Constantine. Incidentally, the way they portray Lucifer in that movie is freaking spectacular. Brilliant whites against tar dripping blacks. Well done Art Director on that one.
That's all I got for now, should head to sleep.
More design to come!
I came up with Flash Bang about 2 years ago. His powers were definitely inspired by Jubilee but as for the rest of him, I can't see. I think I see a little Freakazoid in there which is pretty bad ass.
I'm pretty sure the concept of a renegade priest who goes around offing Vampires, Ghouls, Zombies, Demons and the like isn't any entirely new one. I definitely got the idea from something like Constantine. Incidentally, the way they portray Lucifer in that movie is freaking spectacular. Brilliant whites against tar dripping blacks. Well done Art Director on that one.That's all I got for now, should head to sleep.
More design to come!
One Helvetica of an Intro
Sup? The name's Clint. I'm scared.
No seriously, I'm terrified about Graphic Design. For starters, let me get this out of the way. I am NOT a graphic designer. I say that because I'm not sure I'll ever be. I don't know what it is, I just can't get that freaking excited about the perfect alignment of Helvetica to a 12.7mm default margin. I just don't care enough about it.
This problem of mine is especially compounded by the fact that I come from a primarily film background and for the last 7 years have worked in the Video Games Industry as a Cinematics Director. Unfortunately, like most, recent downsizing and redundancies have happened and like most, I was caught in the net of it.
Since then the Games Industry here has nearly completly shut it's doors for a guy with my experience. They largely tend to grab Americans with DECADES of experience for super cheap since they're all coping with the GFC downturn too. Who can blame them really? It's just smart business.
In any case, I'm out here on the outside with no idea what to with myself. Facts are that I need to make money and it would more than likely take FOREVER to start making some if I went into the Film Industry (although I do have experience as an Editor/Compositor).
Bottom line, there was only one other thing that I ever wanted to do with my life, and that was make Logos. Seems pretty freaking limited I know and ultimately, it's just some passing hobby (I think I'm an Illustrator at heart). So now I sit here, unemployed, eating into savings, just joined a Graphic Design course and am staring down the barrel of a future career I'm not even certain I'll like.
Maybe I just had a bad day in class or something but honest to god, 5 hours talking about Grids in InDesign. I find myself sitting down and listening to these lectures and doing these prac exercises and thinking to myself, "This is Art right? Isn't Art subjective? Why are there so many rules?"
Now I'm not trying to rally against the machine, but I am sitting here tossing up two opinions on a lot of things I'm taught. Everything coming into my head is greeted with a "Well duh, common sense there" or a "What? Why the fuck has it gotta be done like that?" Could be the teachers fault for not explaining a lot of the why behind things and I recognize that so I spend a lot of time now trying to force myself to be interested. Jumping around on Design Blogs and the like can only do so much.
I do love Design, I just wonder if it's truly for me.
No seriously, I'm terrified about Graphic Design. For starters, let me get this out of the way. I am NOT a graphic designer. I say that because I'm not sure I'll ever be. I don't know what it is, I just can't get that freaking excited about the perfect alignment of Helvetica to a 12.7mm default margin. I just don't care enough about it.
This problem of mine is especially compounded by the fact that I come from a primarily film background and for the last 7 years have worked in the Video Games Industry as a Cinematics Director. Unfortunately, like most, recent downsizing and redundancies have happened and like most, I was caught in the net of it.
Since then the Games Industry here has nearly completly shut it's doors for a guy with my experience. They largely tend to grab Americans with DECADES of experience for super cheap since they're all coping with the GFC downturn too. Who can blame them really? It's just smart business.
In any case, I'm out here on the outside with no idea what to with myself. Facts are that I need to make money and it would more than likely take FOREVER to start making some if I went into the Film Industry (although I do have experience as an Editor/Compositor).
Bottom line, there was only one other thing that I ever wanted to do with my life, and that was make Logos. Seems pretty freaking limited I know and ultimately, it's just some passing hobby (I think I'm an Illustrator at heart). So now I sit here, unemployed, eating into savings, just joined a Graphic Design course and am staring down the barrel of a future career I'm not even certain I'll like.
Maybe I just had a bad day in class or something but honest to god, 5 hours talking about Grids in InDesign. I find myself sitting down and listening to these lectures and doing these prac exercises and thinking to myself, "This is Art right? Isn't Art subjective? Why are there so many rules?"
Now I'm not trying to rally against the machine, but I am sitting here tossing up two opinions on a lot of things I'm taught. Everything coming into my head is greeted with a "Well duh, common sense there" or a "What? Why the fuck has it gotta be done like that?" Could be the teachers fault for not explaining a lot of the why behind things and I recognize that so I spend a lot of time now trying to force myself to be interested. Jumping around on Design Blogs and the like can only do so much.
I do love Design, I just wonder if it's truly for me.
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