Blue is my favorite color, maybe green.

Typography

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:17:00 +0000

I Love Lamp from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

Collage - Donkeys VS Elephants

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:07:00 +0000

Donkeys VS. Elephants from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

CFV 426 Project 2: Tetris Invasion

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Tetris Invasion from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

Bouncing Objects

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:47:00 +0000

Bouncing Objects from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

Project 1 for Animation 2. Make two objects bounce, the first one had to be a round object of some sort and the second could be whatever. I decided to tie my two objects together instead of having to different scenes.

Animation 2: Walk Cycle - Model

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Model Walk Cycle from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

Walk Cycle Project for Animation 2. I've definitely cleaned up my style with flash, hope you enjoy.

Assignment 1: Hercless

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:11:00 +0000

Hercless from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

For my remix/mashup I decided to compare love scenes in two different movies, “Hercules” and “Clueless.” At first I thought this was going to be impossible since one is animated and one is live-action, but to my surprise they were almost the same. To successfully portray the similarities between the scenes I had to match the emotions of the “Clueless” characters to the movements of the “Hercules” characters.
I wanted to show the similarities between the two love scenes and how they play out almost exactly the same. Each scene follows a certain trend starting with the female starting something and the male trying to comfort her. Then the male makes a mistake in his words and the female gets upset. Finally the male comforts her and they finally kiss at the end. I thought it was funny that both movies followed this exact same pattern.

Compressor Dodge This!

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:30:00 +0000

Dodge This! from Josh Carlson on Vimeo.

From here on out...

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Anything past the date of this post will be for Cinematic Multimedia and Animation 2. Mainly for Cinematic Multimedia, but I figure I would post my Animation 2 projects as well since I need to get them out there. Hope you all enjoy them.

Movie Poster

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +0000

For this next assignment we had to create a movie poster for a movie that we are either making or made up. I chose to make a poster about my upcoming animation project about dodge ball. I really like the graphic dodge ball and the lighting effects created by using the opacity setting. The balls texture is taken from another image, but reapplied with the healing brush. The credits font is called Steeltongs which I downloaded from the internet and was extremely helpful. The ratings logo was hand made from the line tool. I don't particularly like the title design or the font of the actors. The red and blue symbolize the two teams in the movie however. The font for the title is Impact and I think it correlates well with the meaning of the title. The slogan fits the poster and the movie overall.

DVD Menu

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:16:00 +0000

For this next assignment we had to create a DVD menu for our films that we have previously made. We had to create the opening menu using photoshop. I'm definitely going to change it up before we turn it in, but I needed to get something done for the moment.
Some people were confused about the buttons. They didn't stand out enough for some people and I understand that since it is the same font as the title. People did like the "Creative" part in the title saying it added good elements to it.
I like that the characters are looking at the buttons and will probably keep them in the same place, but will change what they do and how they look. Overall it's very plain and simple, but it's effective because you don't want people to get lost looking for buttons.

Opening Title Sequence

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:32:00 +0000

On Oct. 7th I had to do a presentation on the opening sequence of a movie. I chose Anchorman because it is one of my favorite movies of all time. Little did I know that I would learn so much about the movie just from analyzing the first four minutes of it.

Typography!

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:42:00 +0000

Here is an assignment all about typography. Our Professor gave us some sayings and we had to use Photoshop to create a meaning we wanted to convey. I had a hard time with some of the phrases, but the three I'm posting here were my favorites.

The American Dream is something that I think many people don't achieve. When I think of it I think of money, so I got a picture of million dollar bill and merged it in with the word dream. I added a shadow behind it to distance the dream from the "American" part of it because many people do not achieve it or they just lose sight of it.

I personally believe the second one is the most important. I wanted to stress the importance of voting and therefore just made the word vote the biggest. I thought of this saying as a sign someone might hold or you would see in a lawn. It's not who you vote for, but that you go out and vote.

This one is kind of comical. It has such a ridiculous blood splatter that it makes it seem like a joke, but it also grabs your attention. I wanted to stress the lethality of AIDS and that's the reason for those words being bigger. Apathy is small because I didn't think it was too important to what I was trying to convey, but the word apathy even takes on it's meaning and hides in between the other words. I took a picture and masked it over the words and used cloning.

Training Exercise 1

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:09:00 +0000

For our first exercise in the class we had to replicate an ad to the best of our abilities using Photoshop. Some people were just learning while some were experts at it, I personally was in between the two. I could this ad because I thought it would be interesting to work with real people and the lighting. I didn't know it would be extremely difficult though. I used the dodge and burn tool a lot to touch up the shaded areas and make them like the ads' models. I also used the clone tool on my male model's hair to get it longer since it was pretty short. Coloring and cloning the shirt on the male was one of the hardest parts as well. I'm satisfied with it because of the time constraints, but too me it still looks a little 'drawn.' The first picture is my replica and the second is the actual ad. Enjoy!

Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Carlson) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:47:00 +0000

Just wanted to introduce myself to everyone reading this here blog. My name's Josh Carlson and I'm a film/video student at Grand Valley State University, with an emphasis on animation. I have an extended background in drawing. However, I mostly like to draw character art.

In high school I worked with Adobe Premiere and Photoshop quite often. I have done a few stop-motion animations with Legos and a few hand drawn animations as well. As soon as I came into college I was taken out of the animation world and thrown into live-action film making. I found this quite enjoyable and am glad I have chosen to go into this field.

Recently, I have started working with Adobe Flash and Photoshop more often. I'm learning some of the trickier tools that go along with those programs. I'm very fluent with Final Cut Pro and have some experience with ProTools. I enjoy every bit of animation and film I get to work with. It truly is a privilege.