Motion Graphics Bumper

For my MGR class...we had to create a ten second bumper for ourselves.  If you don't know...bumpers are those short clips at the beginning of movies and you find them on websites too sometimes.  (Paramount has those stars flying in encircling the mountains, Universal has the globe spinning, etc)  So...here's what I thought up.

I realize that I probably shouldn't have mentioned those awesome Paramount and Universal bumpers right before you looked at mine.  Mine doesn't even compare to those.  But hey, it was my first attempt. Gimme a break.

Experimentation with Time Travel

I'm not sure if anyone else knows this....but today is the 12th of March!

I say that because I have no freakin' idea where the months of January and February went! Or even the first half of March, for that matter.  Seriously...did I time travel right past the last 70 days or so? ...and not even realize it?  I'm pretty sure that's the case...there's just no other explanation.  

On another note, my sleep schedule just keeps getting more and more unusual.  This month, I have class from 5pm to 1am everyday, which isn't too bad of a schedule.  Atleast, it's consistent.  But the thing is, I don't go to bed until about 6 or 7am each morning...and then I sleep all day until it's time for class at 5pm.  I'm becoming a nightwalker.  Maybe this is where the time gets lost.(?)  But that would totally dismiss my time travel theory.  And I kind of liked that theory.

You wanna hear some exciting news?  I guess you have to, since your reading this.  But if you don't want to hear it, stop reading right now.

My "Bushisms Painting" video, which I've posted in this blog before, which you can also find here, was playing on the big LCD screen that they just installed on top of one of our buildings.  Check it out!

It was one of six other videos of student work that they had playing during Full Sail's "Behind the Scenes" Tour.  They had the music blaring and everything!  It was up there with some crazy stuff too, like an "Addy" award-winning motion graphics piece for Nike.  So I was pretty stoked that they chose my video.  Plus, how often do you see yourself on a massive video screen?  

it's been awhile...i miss you.

Yeah...so i guess it's been some time since my last post on here. And for that, i apologize.

See, last month I was in Physics (which was very easy and boring since I just took it not too long ago) and Digital Audio Design (which is definitely not my cup of tea). What I'm trying to get at, is that I really haven't had anything worth posting for the last month or so.

However, I was somewhat busy last month with a website that I made for RhythmInTwenty.  You should check it out! I even made a little game inside the website. On each page of the site, there's a little tiny sparkle that will appear after everything else has loaded. Click on the sparkles! It's fun! Trust me...I play it all day while I'm in class, even though I created it and I know exactly where each sparkle will appear.
So now that you've had your fun trying to locate all the sparkles at RhythmInTwenty, you might be asking yourself, "But Aaron, what are you up to this month?"

And guess what...I'm about to tell you.

This month...I...AM...STOKED!  I've got two classes, "Motion Graphics" and "Typography and Page Layout".  Both of which, I'm very excited for.  

In Motion Graphics, we'll be using Adobe After Effects to make some sweet...well...motion graphics.  I guess the name of the class is pretty self-explanatory.  

And then in TPL, we'll be using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign to use type in some very interesting ways.  For our first project, we had to choose one word, any word like cityscape, rain, person, whatever.  And then we had to illustrate that word, using only that word.  That sounds really confusing.  

Anyway, here's what I came up with.

So, the word I chose was "washington", so everything that you see in the picture, is made out of the word "washington."  Get it? Got it? Good.  Zoom in for added awesomeness.  (sorry about the crappy .jpg quality....it's the best i can do)

 

So with crazy, fun classes such as these....I probably won't be sleeping much this month.  You better check back often. Marvelous things will be flooding these black pages very soon.

Yours Truly,
Aaron J Harms