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

Editorial Ill-US-trat-ion

For my final project for ADG, we had to create a full page illustration for a magazine article.  We had a couple different article titles that we had to choose from, and then we had to include that title in our illustration somehow.  The title I chose was "Robot Future Poses Hard Questions".  So without further ado...



All photos and illustrations that we used had to be our own. So I ended up shooting and putting everything together in a little less than 24 hours. The robot in the picture was painted in photoshop, which I'm not particularly proud of. Anyway, I think it turned out alright. It's a little congested, but i kind of wanted to make it look like a collage of some sort. Enough about me...what do you think?

statuS meteR...

so...in our ADG class, we had one of our lab specialists (Amy Something-or-other) come in and give a presentation/tutorial on painting techniques in photoshop.  pretty much like traditional painting, but on a computer screen.  it was amazing!  the things she could create in photoshop from absolute scratch blew my mind!  she used to be a sort of concept artist/digital painter and her work was incredible.

anyway...then we got a photoshop assignment to create some sort of status meter, like one you would see in a video game.  the meter also had to have a scale from 1-10. so for my meter, i decided to apply some of the same painting techniques that she showed us in class.  this was an in-lab assignment, so we only had 4 hours to work on it, which for me, was only 2.5 hours since i was a little late to class.  whoops!  so....here's the (not-so-final) final.

for my scale, each half of a bar would represent 1 out of 10. so in the picture...it's displaying 9 out of 10. get it?

for you photoshop junkies out there, this whole thing was done with brushes only, minus the one outer glow and the drop shadows under the status bars.

it definitely could have been better, but im proud of it, knowing that i pulled it off in a little over 2 hours.

also, be expecting some sort of still life painting in the next coming weeks.

ADG:First Project

so....I've gotten a bit lazy with this blog, and for that I apologize. I mean, I'm letting down all of my devoted readers...all....ummmm...12 of them (including me). im deeply sorry.

anyway, this month im taking "advanced computer graphics" and "geometry and measurement (very lame)". im having an awesome time in ADG(which is Full Sail's acronym for "advanced computer graphics"), diving even deeper into Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I'm loving it! Our first project in this class was to create a realistic looking mechanical object of our choice. I chose my cell phone. here's the final product.  (this .png is kind of bad quality, but you get the gest)



i would tell you how many hours this illustration took me, but you wouldn't believe me if i told you. lets just say its somewhere around 10-15 hours. i told you you wouldn't believe me. this type of work is very time consuming. wait, i just told you how long it took me even though i said that i wouldn't. dang, im an idiot!

whelp, until next time. peace.

word on the street....

...a new website for my artwork is starting to take shape. ive got some pretty wicked plans for it...you just wait



because blogs are lame....handy...but lame