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Uni demo reel

2009-06-15T16:38:00.002-07:00

CSI - Truce

2009-05-12T18:01:00.001-07:00

Low res version - mock crime scene

Cinema shots - Truce

2009-05-10T12:43:00.001-07:00

Ambient Media - Truce Bullets

2009-05-10T12:23:00.000-07:00

DVD cover 1st edit

2009-05-06T16:12:00.001-07:00

Screen Grabs From Truce Film - Final Year Project

2009-04-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

TRUCE UK

Before colour correction

After colour correction

Crime - One week brief

2008-11-11T07:00:00.001-08:00

For this university project, we had to turn a negative into a positive. I took the fact that crime is positive if you are the criminal. This then led onto the the fact that crime is a main part of our economy and without crime, unemployment would rise even more thus creating more crime due to desperation.

Robocop Trailer - Uses Terminator Music

2008-11-11T06:55:00.000-08:00

Because this trailer came out before Robocop's music was completed, so the Studio thought they could just use Music from the their other hit about a cyborg. The Terminator. Both were produced by Orion studios and both are winners

Conrad Ostwald - Showreel 2008 Watch and be amazed

2008-10-01T12:56:00.000-07:00

What an example of how a showreel should be done that promotes every skill you have to offer.

2FRESH - Can Burak Bizar

2008-09-29T16:35:00.000-07:00

"Snickers Cross Turkiye” was an event about three roller skaters skating throughout Türkiye within 2 months, with the slogan “Keep Moving". So, being consistent with the event, our solution reflected the street culture and the spirit of roller blade; while appealing to the core target group of Snickers, mainly the youth.

The art direction of the web site is based on street life, wall and asphalt textures and road signs. In the core of the design, they created an illustration combining the main sight-seeing elements on the route on a sliding strip, which moves along with the three skaters. They say they used crappy 2D character animations for skaters and combined them with 3D street sign navigation. They also employed a selective yellow-brown color palette and flat textured graphics to communicate the visual style of the event in a Snickers® branded way.

Skrilla

2008-09-29T16:34:00.001-07:00

Walsall based Skrilla designs album covers. They look to be in a similar style to that of the photography of Dave Hill. "My life-long love of music crossed over into design when I began working as a full-time freelance designer in 2006. I always enjoyed actually buying music and owning the full product with the artwork and booklet, rather than just listening to the music, and that's how I really started to think about getting into the music industry and designing myself," he says. "I got my first real break in 2006 when I hooked up with Midlands-based record label Wolftown Recordings, and from there it was all go, using the internet as a networking tool to reach clients based anywhere from the UK to the United States, and as far as Japan."
Skrilla says the freelance life is the way for him: "I feel really optimistic about working freelance right now, as it allows me to be creative in the field of design I love."

KJA Artists - Matt

2008-09-29T16:12:00.002-07:00

Over his 20-year freelance career, Matthew has worked on a variety of commissioned projects from art and illustration agents, as well as from his own clients of design agencies, publishers and manufacturers. He's experienced many changes in the design industry: "The biggest challenge was making the change from traditional airbrush to digital back in the late 90s."
The Batman project was a commission for the Dorling Kindersley Bat mobile Owner's Manual in December 2007, and one he thoroughly enjoyed. "It was important to make it look believable, but at the same time have a feel of 'Bat technology'," he says. Another of his commissioned projects was Muscle -part of a series of anatomical illustrations for Carlton books in April 2008."The most important part of this project was making the textures look organic, but keeping them relatively simple," he explains. "The challenge was getting the exaggerated perspective of the different layers to look okay, while keeping a sense of scale that allowed all the parts to be easily understood."

Jason Peacock

2008-09-29T16:12:00.001-07:00

Mixing the 2d and 3d seemlesly.

Paul Novak

2008-09-29T16:11:00.001-07:00

Born in Hong Kong, Novak moved to the UK at the age of 8 and has always been an artist. Working in areas including illustration, graphic design, typography and street art, he officially became a designer in 2006, and now works for Lomax Systems Ltd (LSL).
The first real design of his that LSL produced was a banner, created in December 2007. "I like the fact that this piece shows the variety of content available from the company as well as the style," says Novak. In June 2008, Novak produced a self-portrait by placing a hand-drawn sketch from his pad into Illustrator and vectorising it. He created his own style of character, taking inspiration from the Best of Blur album cover by Julian Opie. Feeling he needed an identity, Novak was inspired by the books Los Logos and Dos Logos to produce a business card that could be read both upside down and normally, in order to create "a little interaction, brain challenge and fun".

Anthony Furlong

2008-09-29T16:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.anthonyfurlong.com/

Design director Anthony Furlong spends most of his time working on commercials and other broadcast projects. The images opposite are from a three-minute piece commissioned by Royale (www.wearerpyale.com) and sponsored by Diesel. "Royale asked me to use the Diesel imagery along with actual tears from the magazine," explains Furlong. He was also commissioned by Brand New School (www.brandnewschgpl.com) to create a pitch for Starbucks Chocolate. "The commercial used the chalkboards that their baristas use in their stores. I always jump at the chance to design things outside of the computer, to use real [and] digital elements."

David Troy

2008-09-29T15:55:00.000-07:00

Flickrvision is the brainchild of American entrepreneur David Troy, who has been working in technology and graphic design for over 20 years. Curious about the flow of visual data around the world, and inspired by the success of his last project, www.Twjtteryjsipn.com, David Troy created the mashup site in May 2007.
"1 thought that visualising pictures from around the world in realtime would be compelling," he explains. "I really like the framing of the large-sized photos (seen when you mouseover the small photos). When I travel, I wilt often stop by an Apple store and put Flickrvision onto a current iMac - the ones with the nice black and silver screens. It really looks great."
Troy re-used a tot of the code and structure that he used to create Twittervision. "Getting the data streams to work was easy," says Troy. "But getting the picture data, geolocating it, saving that and spitting it back out was a challenge that took some time to master, though I had some experience with that general process in doing Twittervision."

Justin Lerner

2008-09-29T15:54:00.000-07:00

http://www.jlern.com/

Justin Lerner is a 27-year-old freelance interactive designer who specialises in innovative flash websites. His personal site, which was created as a tool to promote his abilities and freelance projects, took a total of a month to complete. "I enjoy its simplicity and the use of typography to push the design," says Lerner.
The project took a lot of planning before he started work on it in March 2007. "It was hard to decide on a system of navigation that I knew would be innovative, but would also not be difficult to use or annoying to users," he explains. "A lot of thought went into how it would fill the screen on different size monitors and still look good. And it was difficult getting the artwork for my projects to look acceptable, after being zoomed and rotated."

Clusta Ltd

2008-09-29T15:51:00.000-07:00

Clusta specialises in intelligent design and digital innovation. The company has been working on digital design, web design, branding, print, 3D and video for over 10years.
This innovative site for American agency Hal Riney can be navigated either by mouse or by webcam. "We didn't want the webcam option to be a gimmick," says creative director Matthew Chugston, "and we felt it was important for this element of the site to function as well as the mouse. So we researched computer games that have utilised similar technology."
The site's aesthetic uses red ink in water to symbolise new blood in the company, so Clusta filmed ink in a fish tank and then comped it all together in After Effects. "Separate ink flows were rendered out of AFX with alpha channels and the coding was then done in Flash," he explains.

group94

2008-09-29T15:47:00.001-07:00

Fully booked for months in advance, Flemish web design agency group94 decided it was time to refresh its company website. The result, which took two months to build, is no ordinary site. While the content itself is relatively straightforward - a news section to explain the agency's approach and showcase some of its work - it's the functionality of the site where things start to get interesting.
"We wanted to showcase our CMS too and decided to include it on the site as well," explains founder and creator Pascal Leroy. "Hence each page has two sides; the actual webpage can be flipped over to reveal the back-end CMS functionality. Visitors are invited to alter the content - they can even upload images and experience its ease-of-use."
Inventing the concept of a double site and CMS was the easy part. The difficult bit was building it, and allowing people to change content. "Integrating typical HTMLfunctionality - use of browser buttons, deep linking, page history and search engine optimisation - to the project was quite a challenge," Leroy says. "More than one would imagine during a simple visit." But it was worth it. "We're happy with the whole project. It generates a lot of very positive feedback."

Firstborn & T.A.G

2008-09-29T15:40:00.000-07:00

Firstborn, a multiplatform design and technology studio, creates everything from websites and viral campaigns to 3D models and digital applications. For the new Microsoft Zune player, it was approached by T.A.G to be its interactive partner on the promotional site. The brief was to develop an experience that acted as a journey for the user - an experience that would allow the user to spend some time with the Zune. "We came up with the idea of having six unique worlds - one for each core feature of the Zune," explains Firstborn's executive director Dan LaCivita.
Launched in mid-November, work on the site began in September. "We're pretty proud of all the animation," LaCivita continues. "Our team of Flash animators worked countless hours on animating every single element for every world. While our lead Flash engineer created this amazing 3D world with pretty sophisticated ActionScript, our animators used cell animation and timeline animation to really bring the Zune worlds to life.
"One thing that was difficult was how our designers and animators had to use the 3D engine created by our programmers to help inform the way they worked. Since there are many elements and a lot of animation, we had to do a lot of testing throughout the process to make sure the loading and performance of the site was optimal."

JUXT Interactive - cherry coke myspace design contest

2008-09-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

Todd Purgason, Co-Founder & Creative Director, JUXT Interactive Well beyond color and motion, Todd focuses on distilling business objectives into actionable creative solutions for JUXT's roster of international brands. Over ten years of international acclaim are a testament to his deep understanding of how to integrate technology and design in order to create a more engaging user interaction that meets business objectives, while delivering uniquely branded experiences. Todd's work has been lauded by nearly every design and advertising authority, including the Clios, Communication Arts, HOW, the New York Art Director's Club, and the Cannes Lions. He is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, an author of a best-selling book on Flash design, and an avid XBOX'er.

Darkroom To Digital - Book

2008-09-29T15:09:00.000-07:00

This book describes the author's `journey' in traveling from the use of analogue techniques to digital techniques of image creation. The journey was fascinating all the more because it was not trouble free. As problems emerged and options presented themselves, decisions were made and lessons were learned. And the author is still on that journey, because, in exploring the new possibilities that digital techniques bring, discoveries are still being made

Julian Knight

2008-09-28T17:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.slingshotphotostudios.com/

very david la chapelle

Bob Cheshire

2008-09-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

http://bobcheshire.co.uk/

Bob Cheshire is a 35-year-old senior concept artist, currently working at Volatile Games, a division of Blitz Games Studios (www.blitzgamesstudios.com) on a top-secret title for a well-known producer: "It is incredibly frustrating that I'm not able to discuss the game or the concept work I've produced for it, as it's still in full development." While he can't give anything away about his most recent project, he is enthusiastic when singing the praises of his employer: "Blitz Games Studios is an awesome company to work for. I get to work with the best artists and animators, and the company feels like it's growing by the day with the ever-increasing amount of fresh directions and games it is taking on."
The British artist has always been interested in design, but finds it difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when he knew that it would become his future career: "We're visually orientated, so we are always assessing design in some form, whether it's graphics, architecture, a texture or simply appreciating a shape or colour. I think I've always enjoyed and been interested in colour and shape, and it's simply been through education and experience that my appreciation has developed into a kind of formal understanding. I guess there was no singular moment I signed on to that."
He uses both Painter and Photoshop in his work, often switching between the two: "Things like custom brushes, while possible in Painter, are so much more workable in Photoshop. Selection tools and the versatility of editing your images are just so much more subtle in Photoshop. The concept artist has an art director to please, so the ability to edit and modify your artwork is simply part of the job. Certainly in that way, I can't imagine being without Photoshop."
Cheshire studied Fine Art at the Falmouth School of Art (as it was known then), before doing a PGCE. He taught art for ten years in secondary schools, but began freelancing while he was still teaching. Nowadays, he works on both his day job and as a freelancer: "I'm extremely lucky that I'm in a position where I'm taking work on in the evenings too, as I continue to do some freelance work for old and new clients." He also occasionally teaches at the Compton Verney gallery: "Compton Verney is far more fine-art based. But it serves as a good reminder that working as a concept artist relies on strong, traditional drawing skills." This is something that Cheshire thinks is extremely important: "Art education is important, but it is usually one of the first things that is squeezed out at schools. I'm a big believer in creating students who are visually literate and who are able to have a dialogue with all this visual information that we're surrounded by. Traditional drawing skills are becoming less and less valued unfortunately, especially at degree level, which professionally I find appalling."

Bor Ja Fresco Costal

2008-09-28T17:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.nekro.es/