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Quatchi Plush

ocularinvasion — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:52:18 +0000

Quatchi Plush

The plush of the Toronto Olympic Games mascot Quatchi is so cute!

A Rainbow Tale

ocularinvasion — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:25:07 +0000

I posted a new animation to Vimeo. It’s a short story about what happens when a rainbow meets a cat. Enjoy!

Zorro Layer Tagger

ocularinvasion — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:11:38 +0000

Zorro The Layer Tagger by Loyd Alvarez

I’ve been working heavily in After Effects for a few months and have found it’s lack of Photoshop-like grouping very frustrating. Thankfully, Lloyd Alvarez of aescripts.com stepped up to the challenge with a very awesome and versatile script that allows you to search and display layers based on a really clever tagging system. Here’s the video explaining how it works. I really recommend watching the whole thing to find out how robust this tagging script really is. Loyd was also kind enough to create a video explaining how to install a script if you’ve never done it before.

BORN Reel

ocularinvasion — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:27:12 +0000

LA based collective BORN has a really nice new reel.

On-Demand Skate Decks

ocularinvasion — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:26:36 +0000

A couple weeks ago, Zazzle.com launched their on-demand skate deck printing service. (If you’re not familiar with Zazzle, it’s a site where an artist can upload designs to be sold on shirts, shoes, postage stamps, etc. Then Zazzle creates a product only when someone orders it. This allows the artist to sell their shiz without worrying about creating too little/too much product to meet demand.) Shortly thereafter, Artsprojekt announced that their teaming up with Zazzle to provide some kick ass art for the new decks. Artsprojekt has some pretty heavy hitters like OBEY, Mars-1, and Dalek among many others.

As if that wasn’t enough art/skate awesomeness, on Monday I got the latest popdeck.com (Threadless but for skatedecks) newsletter announcing that they’re teaming with big name artists. We’re talking No Pattern, MWM Graphics, Go Media and of course many others.

I’m really curious about the quality of these decks. I’ve heard the Zazzle decks as being comparable to giclee prints. It would be pretty impressive if it’s true. Coincidence that these two companies did this at the same time or was it all planned? Either way, we win.
Zazzle.com | Deckpeck.com

CMY Qué?

ocularinvasion — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:55:51 +0000

Yeah, I know it’s a pretty lame joke. Notice how the image doesn’t relate at all to the saying? There wasn’t a real conceptual basis here. This was mostly just an exercise in Maya;getting used to shading networks, rendering, and what not.

Milk Gone Bad

ocularinvasion — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:13:41 +0000

There are few things that I know of that combine illustration, papercraft, furniture design, and a clever idea into one little package. Milk Gone Bad is a series of lamps that, when turned off, just look like a plain white milk carton. But, when turned on, the lamps show the germy worlds brought about by the rotten milk.

The lamp comes in 8 designs, all of which can be seen at thedieline.com. I particularly enjoy design #8 where the little germy guys are trying to escape the carton.

illustrations by Bombo
for sale at Anatomic Factory
[via thedieline.com]

Fashion Week Style Frames

ocularinvasion — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:28:02 +0000

J’adore Les 80’s

ocularinvasion — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:30:09 +0000

It means I love the 80’s. Don’t know why, but that phrase just got stuck in my head today so I decided to do a quick type thing with it. Mostly just trying to keep my design skills up as I keep on learning more Maya and After Effects. Expect more little type things like this in the coming weeks.

Rock N Rolla Opening Titles

ocularinvasion — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:22:09 +0000

Designer Danny Yount has posted the opening titles for RocknRolla on his site. Rock N Rolla is the new film by director/writer Guy Ritche, the man behind the classics Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Hopefully RocknRolla will be a return to form for him because Revolver just didn’t do it for me. It was just a tad convoluted, had some unnecessary animation thing in the middle, and the end was pretty predictable. I didn’t even bother seeing that Madonna movie.
Danny Yount has an amazing body of work which includes the end credits for Iron Man, titles for Six Feet Under, and the opening titles for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which, in my opinion, are the best looking titles of the past decade. Yount’s work is truly inspiring to me as someone who is getting into the field of motion design but I also love the fact it is appreciated by non designers as well.
[via Cinematical]