3/30 Update

It's been a short while since my momentary leave of absence. I'm hoping this recovery could speed up, and cease distracting me from all of my work. Produced a lot of work for the department this weekend; it should pay off via the special presentation this week. Prepare yourselves.

Week 7 & K.O.

Week seven was a short period of time before my ultimately leaving school for a dire medical condition. The week consisted of frivolously working on headshots of Visions 5 members, and uploading them to the drive as they were being uploaded to Facebook (and other social net. sites most liikely?). Work was constantly being interrupted by my condition which is why I left and...

K.O.

...had to receive immediate medical attention. My "knockout" period of three weeks was pretty ruthless; despite being in an abundance of pain, I tried to work on several of the photographs for staff members that had remembered to upload their headshots on the drive. Despite the fact that I was receiving treatment and in a bed for quite some time, I still worked on the headshots (this was mostly towards the beginning of my absence) which was always a somewhat long processing consisting of brushing 'contours' and aligning outlines with the pixels of the images. Most of the images weren't lossless so their resolution collapsed whenever I zoomed in any section. The rest was simple.

Week 6-Work Update

Pictures. Faces. Eyeballs. I've been staring at these everyday for the past couple of weeks. The staff bios must be reflec... wait. I think I'll just create these kickass photos and not worry about relating with the written part of each staff member's biography. Saying that procures a 'sort-of' idea I have in mind; a very special 'celebratory' animation that combines everyone into a fiesta of awesomeness. More details on that later.. but for now lets discuss the photos. The style I'm using spurred from yet another idea that took Kyle's concept, and multilayered the crap out of both the target picture and brush tools. The more I used this method, the sharper my technique became (has becoming). To those who are dissatisfied with their photos, the following should be noted:

Ask me for a redo, please. Thanks.

-Mike

Week 5-Work Update

The first director interview is in limbo, not that it hasn't been done, but I'm thinking of other creative ways to showcase this type of project. While the speech bubbles are great, there has to be something that separates the interviews from every other animation made in class, or even all other videos in that promotional category. Despite all of that, Kyle's new approach for the interviews may fare well with the content itself. If it works, it works! On a side note, the proposal for three dimensional promotional videos is something I think will rock; bluntly put because no other word can describe my excitement for the next promo I've been putting together. Time however is problematic considering how tedious this animation has been, and will eventually end up being when I'm nearing a conclusion. Alright, back to work.