Visual Essayyyy

Finally got this visual essay going, done quite a bit of research and am starting to put it together now. I've decided to put my images and pieces of video into premier and have a bit of narration over the top.
For my three Practitioners i have chosen

1- Victor Navone- an animator at Pixar. Has a really interesting background and his work i am very fond of and would like to maybe one day achieve the level of quality he has.

2- Tangram 3DS- an international 3D & Design Solutions Company- amazing design and concepts visualised for a variety of different clients, after researching them i decided they would be my dream job to work for. Love the bold fresh work they have.

3- Nathan Love Studios (Ryan Moran)- Animation studios, specifically one of their chief animators Ryan Moran who's work is so different but has a very quirky and individual character to them all. I like the fact the studio isn't afraid to touch a piece of work and that it is a small studio that is very popular.

So there they are, i am pretty sure i will be able to talk about their influences upon me and how my work reflects them and why i want to chose Virtual Environments as my Pathway choice.

Finally mine and peymans edit of our film is up (The first project)

jools tell us what you think, read this...read it and watch

Ipod and Headphones

So i decided to try and create an ipod in 3ds macs, i know considering its shape and features ect its pretty easy to create but i wanted to look more at making it look realistic, ive also started creating a pair of headphones to go with it, a working progress but here are a few renders.

Ideas For Start Screen.

After creating a few storyboard ideas i started looking at different visuals for the quiz mainly looking at the start screen.

Interactive Quiz: StoryBoard

Just some initial Storyboards of how my world cup quiz might look, obviously effects ect will be added in flash.

Interactive Quiz

So we've started the Interactive Media part of the course, the part i have been looking foward to least, i'm going to try go into it open minded and try create a quiz to a high standard, having chosen virtual enviroments already it will be hard though.
I thought i would do my quiz on the world cup seeing as it's not too far away, a bit bland and boring some might say but i will try m ake it look as intresting as possible.
Stay tuned for some Stroyboard ideas on how it might layout out.........

Just some random 3ds Max Work

Decided to just getting playing around with 3ds a bit so started by creating a living room, ive added on a little kithcen bit, over time i would like to work on this peice just to help me get to grips with the programme. I think a house is quite a good way to do this as there is so many small little bits in a house that i can work on.

Random Animated Funny Shorts....

Globe Room Development/Re-Work

I decided that the globe room where the superheroes would sit and discuss matters wasn't really in setting with the rest of the laire so i did a bit of a re-work and added in some new materials.

Weta Workshop

Weta Workshop are an award winning conceptual design and physical manufacturing company. A friend on the DFTV course was telling me about them and so i decided to look them up, i didn't realise actually how much they do within the film industry not especially in 3d visula enviroments but across the board. They seem like a very inspiring company who work hard to get the quality finish that goes into every movie they do.

Having done work for all of the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, King Kong, The lion king and many more they have a lot of experience too.

Although i didn't know much about them before this year i think they are a company that are very inspiring to me. The amount of films i have watched where they have done background work for is endeless.

Control Room and Progress in other rooms...

These Renders are from the main control room in my lair, where the submarine comes in and plans are put into action. I am trying to keep it all in the same style so there is the same smooth shiny metal finish to the floor and objects.

These are renders from the tunnel leading to the Globe room.

Visual Essay

Finaly started thinking about this essay as it seems it will probably be a lot harder than i first though it would be.

I think i understand it now but just have to get my head round how i am going to do it and what 3 practitioners i will chose to show why i am taking the pathway choice i am.

I have decided i am going to start a sort of scrap book and gather images or things that i think make me want to do the virtual enviroments pathway or that show the way i work in terms of that pathway, this should help me build a database of imagery and ideas for the essay itself.