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Foolin around with 360 Panorama app on my iphone, fooled around further with it in c4d with. Experimented with type...

Displacer Deformer

Morphing Name

Muckin around with the spline effector and cloner objects. This scene file includes HDRI, a softbox, a bounce light card.

C4D Tracer Node

Learnt the tracer node in C4D. Below, couple of artwork I randomly did after that tutorial.

Sub Polygon Displacement

After more learning! Could be a pretty cool album artwork...

TYPE Exploration

Cinema 4D No.1

So i've just started learning Maxon's Cinema 4D. I actually like it a lot. I haven't really used it much yet, I did my first tutorial today and its just a bunch of random coloured balls floating in air. But with this tutorial, I was introduced to the interface, global illumination, materials, mograph and rendering. I did some colour correction in photoshop after. There is still anti aliasing issues but with time I will get better at it. Here you go for my first C4D render with help from GSG blog.

Conversations In My Head

I am putting together a piece of work and by starting out i quickly just got together some reference images on the net and used it to put together a muffled image in my head. Hopefully there will be some form of progress here and that it won't remain as a stagnated thought.

Just a few quick versions.

In Australia

New piece of work...

I have started editing a new pet project. This are some teaser frames, or work in progress. I'm open to crits if any. The end piece will be animated. This is of course a quick mock up, any type of post lens blurs/ colour grade will be fine tuned.

Raw footage:

Original style frame:

Developed style frame:

Developed style frame: not sure about the slight colour change.

Original style frame 2:

Developed style frame 2: Rough cut

Developed style frame 2:

Developed style frame 3: With black type instead of white for some frames?

Feelings

Collages

I just though i'd add the 2 collages I worked on with materials I used for my last project at the AA.

Hamstead Heath: Kenwood House

So a friend of mine took me to this place in London called Hamstead Heath to visit Kenwood house. I took these photos with my iPhone. Colour graded it though. I took 1 picture of kenwood house but it turned out blur when I captured it on my computer so woops. Apparently this is one of the wealthy areas in London. Famous people such as Hugh Laurie & Sienna Miller have been spotted jogging in this park. Anyways enjoy them pics. 

Happy New Year! 2011..

Hey guys, its the 1/01/11! I want to wish everyone out there a very happy new years! Its gonna be an interesting year ahead. I have had quite an interesting year that have led me to making some life changing decisions. Moving countries, picking up new things to study and of course meeting new people who are from all walks of life. Its been a pleasure so far, new experiences ahead and i'm only looking forward to seeing how life unveils for myself and for those whom I know.

Cheers!

Final Term Project

DFSo the project started out with groups building installations for the bloomsbury festival. During the installation day, individuals were to record and do some drawings of the particular group installation they had received chose at randomly by the tutors. In my previous post, I wrote about the installation that my group mates and I built. We got to draw a group who did something with compost.

This is one of the pics we took for documenting this installation. First time I saw this I was worried on how the hell i'd be drawing sectionals of this installation. I didn't end up drawing proper sectionals, I will go back to drawing them at a later date when I am inspired again and not so sick of looking at this installation.

So started off drawing what was inside this installation, flower bulbs! I thought that it would be a godo way to sink my teeth into the drawings. So i cut open one pocket and drew a sketch out of it. But my tutor told me i needed to go more detailed. So the following images is what I drew.

I tried to draw it as detailed as possible, even the sectionals. I should have used a pencil instead of illustrator though, I reckon the quality of the drawings would have increased tremendously. But I was running out of time and so this was the only option at the time. So then I went on to drawing the bulbs sitting inside these pockets of 10cm by 10 cm of compost.

Horrible! I know!

Top and side elevation of the entire installation. From image references and imagination!

Bottom is the front elevation.

So after these drawings, we were suppose to make manuals of these drawings for someone else to recreate it. Obviously to interpret it differently, mostly everyone chose to misunderstand them in some way or picked a page from the manual and start of from there, some were given the choice to hybridize it with some object in the british museum. Our group didn't get that so we had to use only the manual that was given which was quite tricky. I had chosen the manual that had an installation that was based on modular construction.

These is the model that I came up for it. Click image for larger view. First I investigated the manual by using different materials then i decided to lasercut MDF wood and make 1 module, defied the brief by stacking it vertically instead of its original horizontal position. Vacuum forma the stack then I covered it with plaster to get the shape. I wanted to cut it in sections but as soon as I cut it into half I felt like it started becoming flat if i were to go into sections of 3cm which was my initial idea, I would have gotten slices of plaster that is about it. Something I have to learn more is how materials work.

Thats it for the term, I have to go redo some of these for my portfolio!

Information Design Brief 2

About 4 weeks ago, I posted an info design work on rent in UK. I was given a second brief of which we had to reiterate 1 or all 99 stories from the book called 'exercises in style'. In a couple of hours I manage to whip up something like this. My first draft looked so much more different to this concept map and it did not make sense so I won't put it up. This map visualises the descriptive text between 5 senses stories. I will continue to work on this for my media studies portfolio that is due at the end of the year. Forgot to mention earlier on that I was particularly inspired by concept maps designed by Mark Lombardi. It would be cool to shape it to a brain or the homunculus...I don't know we'll see.

Introduction to Arduino

I've always had an interest in studying interactivity. Never had the time to, and never knew much about it, but I knew the capacity it has and the different kinds of amazing projects you can do with it. I also knew that it would help me in my field of Architecture. Arduino is a very popular language used more and more now by architects so I decided to get a head start with it. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy to use hardware and software intended for artists and designers. Check out www.arduino.cc for more information. So i'm also studying a sister language of arduino called processing simultaneously.

Opening up my first Arduino Uno board. I went for a workshop done by Tinker London.

Connecting my board to the computer, learning how to set this up.

To make sure that everything is working, instead of running your first app 'Hello World', I gotta get a a light blinking. So this is pretty much the example code the makers of arduino have kindly provided with.

My light blinks! So basically, I got to know about circuits of by the way i wish i paid more attention in physics class in high school. I also learned how to get a button working, how to fade in and out a light. I will be continuing this workshop in the next session after christmas is over. Can't wait!