This is a time-lapse experiment of a heart shaped ice block melting that has been captured in real time on video and then sped up 1000% to give the final time-lapse effect. A heart shaped has been used as this is a client experiment for an MIC electronic music project which my students are preparing artwork and video. I used a hardware shop halogen light that pulses and fluctuates with the time lapse effect so next time I will try a different light source that is more constant and stable. The final movie does illustrate the effect so it serves its purpose as a demonstration file. This movie was shot with a Canon XA10 video camera as HD and prepared in apple motion.

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This is a very short animation using 3d depth and camera panning in Apple Motion. I noticed this effect being used in some documentaries and advertising and created this animation as a demo for our students learning motion graphic design. The photo is of a Kookaburra I shot with a zoom lens some time ago, this has be bird has been carefully isolated and prepared with a new background on seperate layers for animation in motion. The layers are separated by z depth with the Kookaburah being closer to the camera in 3D space. Some subtile camera behaviours produce and effect than cannot be achieved via a single static image and is often used to get maximum milage from a photograph.

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These images are from a tutorial about hand rendered typography and how to digitise those graphics and use them in our designs. The first image is a rough draft developing the basic shape of the letterforms, I then map that out with more care on some grid paper, measure areas and develop the strong letterforms. Once complete I stick the artwork to my desk, stick some quality tracing parer over that and trace the design with care to produce a very clean master. This trace is then scanned, adjusted and finally traced using the auto trace feature in Illustrator. This process produces a very clean results providing your tracing work is thorough. Once the lettering is converted to  vectors they can be treated in many different ways.

This is an fairly silly example I use for an creative assignment called image of the week, there is a new topic each week and student must work to that theme, this one’s for Weird Science, anything goes with this one really. Lots of photoshop and illustrator content in this one with both used in the final art.

I use these files in my classes to demonstrate how to produce beautiful clean vectors from original drawings, these are the steps.

• Create your drawing – use pencils, guide lines whatever you need to get a good result.
• Stick down some quality tracing paper over the top of your artwork
• Retrace the artwork with a quality fine marker – ensure no rough or crossing lines.
• Scan the traced into photoshop at high resolution and adjust levels
• Place into Illustrator and use the tracing options to generate a vector version. – Expand and re-colour to suit.
• The effort in retracing the original artwork onto tracing paper is really worth the effort! Good quality on the way in produces best results.

This is demonstration design was for a project I ran at CIT in 2008 called Choc Crocs. Students had to develop breakfast cereal packaging and create a mascot character for the brand. I use this files to demonstrate the typographic approach and development of the character from Illustrator to photoshop.

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Another VR Panorama of the Rain forest Gully at the Botanic Gardens in Canberra. The whole set all link together for a complete virtual tour.

Another VR Panorama of the Rain forest Gully at the Botanic Gardens in Canberra. The whole set all link together for a complete virtual tour. There are 35 panoramas of the whole walk through the gully. Interactive

Designed this in Flash to go with the logo I’m using for this site, based off a graphic concept more than a purpose I now need a way to link to a few hundred pictures or perhaps audio files – if every button triggered a sound on roll over it may work. Looks pretty so it can stay here for a while.