My Character

I am continuing my investigation of motion and its ability to reinfoce content. I chose to create a very simple figure that looks like how I used to draw to people in kindergarten. I want to explore what can be done with a simple figure, and how he can be used, by himself and in multiple to reinforce content in a piece.

Proj01_Sentence

For this project I tried to explore how text functions in a moving environment, and how the physical motion of the text can be utilized as a layer of content in a piece.

The piece begins with the word communicate falling from above. As it falls it gets quicker, and more chaotic. Then, these black boxes come in and obsucre the communication. The boxes then explode, revealing the word 'chaos.'

As we become more and more saturated in a visual environment, communication can become obscured, and even replaced, by chaos.

Proj01

The 3d didn't work like I expected, so I kind of scaled down the implementation of it for this project.

Here is my comp screen:

the word sincere appears first. It has nice, organic white ornamentation around it that begins to write on. The camera pans in slow. As the ornament is revealing itself the stroke of it turns to gray and then to black.  While the stroke is changing color, it begins to become more chaotic, until it eventually consumes the word "communication" in a cloud of blackness. While the stroke is transition from calm to chaotic, the camera, too, begins to behave more eradically, eventually becoming so shaky, that the screen becomes nealy illegibl. After the whole word is obscure, the camera stop shaking, and the could begins to fade. Left behind, is the word "chaos."

3D nesting my @$$

Here is my working window before I disabled the camera in the comp. You can see from the side view that this is not keeping it's 3D properties.

Here we are with the came in the nested composition deleted:

All of the 3d ability is now lost.

I think after composing with precomps the composition seems to become psuedo 3d.

Storyboard

5 years. No chance of parole

The sincere chaos devoured the tasty communication.

Four Words

sincere chaos tasty communication.

reallyfastquickkindoffreewritingexercise

simple

engaging

nice

funny

sincere

unique

identity

voice

authorship

singular

active

fun

dynamic

conceptual

relateable

understandable

different

design

form

chaos

vibrant

colorful

honest

emotive

quirky

unpretentious

awesome

avuncular

bespoke

quixotic

tasty

satisfying

viral

communication

immediate

gruesome

reticular

chewy

meditative

postdated

Sketchy?

Similiar




Contrasting

Compare & Contrast

Similar
action.change.persuasive.
emotional.happy.viral.
quixotic.marketing.design.
poster.type.gestalt.
conceptualy engaging, not limiting.
ideas not abstractions.
simple.humorous.quirky.
playful.interesting.sincere.

DisSimiliar
static.minimal.modern.
beige.stoic.regressive.
conservative.traditional.
form first. passive.
balanced.cynical.jaded.
repressive.boring.lame.
the fuzzy texture in your mouth in the morning before you brush your teeth.
asleep. tired. bland.

A Desperate Search in Pursuit of Brain Candy

Posters have been used historically to bring attention to a cause, promote social change, and as an iconic form of mass communication. As our society becomes more technologically adept, our eyes and interests are moving away from static images and towards dynamic, electronically driven materials. Many fear that the poster is on its way out of our visual lexicon. I plan to investigate how this medium can be incorporated into digital era.

Viral videos exist of people getting kicked in the balls. Millions of people are willing to spend hours of their day watching stuff like this. If short, informative, and visually engaging pieces are made in the digital realm, wouldn’t people also be willing to watch them too?

Following in the line of successful postmodernist designers such as Stephen Sagmeister, James Victore, Rick Valienceti, and Tibor Kalman, I am interested in the social, not aesthetic role design can play. These artists have stepped away from modernists ideas of purity and form, and instead seek to make work that can engage its viewer on an emotional level.

I dont want to make eye candy. I want to make brain candy.