Sidewalk Art!!!

Im thinking about what direction I want to go in for the website design---I decided to focus on a theme; fashion, rather than a neighborhood. More specifically "street" or alternative fashion as oppose to high-fashion-week-fashion--more like make-shift stuff. So my starting point or inspiration is the sidewalk. Im looking at different images of the sidewalk itself and came across the website which I think is pretty cool---sidewalk art! CLICK HERE

Harlem Time Period: Malcolm X Movie Scene (No Water)

This is a scene from Spike Lee's Malcolm X during the period he lived in Harlem. I thought about this movie a lot while making my animation; and the style and dress among African Americans in 1930s-1940s Harlem. Although this particular clip doesn't show just how colorful, exuberant, and sometimes ostentatious the clothes were back then, I think it does give insight to the attitude and importance of style and appearance. (I had also wanted to use "Beans and Cornbread" by Louis Jordan, the track in the background--in my type animation but cant find the instrumental for the life of me!)

Graphic Inspiration

The graphics on Prince's 1999 album-- The illustrated look relates with my image animation for Harlem. I could easily imagine this animated...

Smoke effect (basic) in After Effects

A brief tutorial on how to make smoke in After effects----

DJ Hero 2 - Mix 2Gether

I just saw this commercial and it looks like it was done with After Effects. The concept is nice but maybe they could of taken it a little further---the freckles part is dope though.

"Gettin' Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (F*ck Comic Sans F*ck Papyrus, Too)"

This video is so unbelievably corny but they're talking about After Effects and other design elements--soo....enjoy. (I got some of the references, other not...)


Money Money Money - "Gettin' Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too)" from Brad Chmielewski on Vimeo.

Motionographer

Flash as an Educational Tool

Edumedia is a flash site that has educational demos for various sciences and other middle/high school classes...I wish I had this in school:

Video Magazine: Rockin that thang video

This is one of my favorite videos/songs. Although the type itself is not animated, the play on magazine covers--which are, of course print materials--mixed with the motion of video is a fresh take on magazine typography and design

The Natural and Technical; The Sound Of Violence - Cassius

This video infuses nature or natural shots with motion design. First it seems to be pretty much all video of landscape but towards the end, all these weird geometric figures appear. A lot of times digital art is thought of as something separate from maybe classic arts like painting, photography etc. which all traditionally deal with nature. This video presents the two concepts next to each other and has some simple animation infusing "the natural and the technical" which is pretty provocative. Something to think about.... Cassuis, "The Sound of Violence":