Filed under: Potpourri, Print | Tags: Canon T1i, CS4, Design, Event Poster, Full Sail University, Illustrator, Marcin Zeglinski, Photoshop, poduski
Description to follow. Lots of teeny details so be sure to click for the full-res, WordPress also has a tendency to mute the colors in the preview.
Here’s V2:
Filed under: Illustration | Tags: CS4, Full Sail University, Illustration, Illustrator, Marcin Zeglinski, Photoshop, poduski, Skateboard Design
Skate deck design…there. It’s actually been quite refreshing to design in print again. After last month of almost nothing but setting type (a lot more fun than it actually sounds, and the fruits of which can be seen in my new branding) I was craving to make something immobile again. This month did not disappoint. Take this for what you will, I don’t really want to explain it as the point is to be somewhat ambiguous. Personally, I see clouds, but again, it’s up to you. It was really more about creating a serene mood than anything else. Ashley Nieves made an awesome one, though I doubt it’ll be on her blog. I really wish she’d start posting again. Sometime soon (hopefully), be ready for a revamp of this, a never before seen revamp of part of this, the completed version of this, and the long-in-the-works premiere of this (which actually led to this. Phew, do yourself a favor and Command click on those. Have you seen this by the way? It was a personal project, but I feel it didn’t get enough love. In fact, be sure to check out all of these. They’re all gold. Except for the ones that aren’t.
Filed under: Illustration | Tags: Corel Painter, CS4, Design, Full Sail University, Marcin Zeglinski, Painting, Photoshop, PMA, poduski, Tarsem, The Cell, The Fall, Watercolor
This year, Full Sail is host to a legendree event. The Tri-Wizard Tournament a guest lecture by Tarsem Singh. Not really. Poster done for a design hero, mine being Tarsem. What a character. If you haven’t seen his work (mainly the Cell and the Fall [the two most beautifulest movies I've ever seen]), it’s elegant, vivid, surreal; and above all, the man is obsessed with horses; all elements I wanted to incorporate into the piece. Mmm…horse.
Filed under: Motion/Video | Tags: After Effects, Branding, Canon T1i, Chemical Brothers, Cinema 4D, Coca-Cola, Commercial, CS4, Full Sail University, Illustrator, Marcin Zeglinski, Mark Koenov, Motion Graphics, Photoshop
Coke spot. Self-explanatory. Sound by the Chemical Brothers.
Filed under: Illustration | Tags: Etching, Full Sail University, Illustration, Marcin Zeglinski, Marina Terauds, Neil Gaiman, Photoshop, poduski, Sandman
Above is my final project for History of Visual Communications at Full Sail. I’ll include my hokey artist statement:”
“Dreams have always provided me with an abundance of ideas; nothing could be purer from a creative standpoint. We dream every night, multiple dreams in fact, but of all the dreams we have in our lives we remember only a handful, a speckle of sand on an astral dune. This is why I’m always grateful to remember one; it is a gift of memory. As dreams often are, this piece is also left ambiguous, the meaning left for the viewer to discern.”
In essence, I was reading the third volume of Sandman last summer and took a catnap. The image came to me in a dream so it’s been rattling around for a while, but the style was inspired very recently by Marina Terauds, an artist I saw at the Winter Park Art Festival who does amazing etchings. So there you go.
Also included is another version of the piece:
Filed under: Motion/Video | Tags: Illustrator, Photoshop, Marcin Zeglinski, Branding, Motion Graphics, poduski, After Effects, MAV, Music, Television, 80s, Cinema 4D, Soundbooth, Animal Collective, Cold Storage, Wipeout Pure
Up there is the first of two assignments for Motion Graphics Project at Full Sail. We were to create and brand a broadcast graphics package for a fictitious channel/TV show. I came up with a music channel- mainly beacuse I think it allowed the most freedom- called MAV. That’s short for maverick; it has no affiliation with the senator from Arizona and means to reflect that the station would play videos for indie music. I went for a very 80s eye candy feel with this, and it was my first official foray into Cinema 4D. In order, you see a 10-second bumper, an animated transition into a loopable background with a bug overlaid, another form of a transition, a lowerthird title bar, and finally, the opener for the show. Music for the bumper and video is “My Girls” by Animal Collective, whereas the opener is “Onyx” by Cold Storage, from the Wipeout Pure soundtrack. And yes, that is indeed the Feisar.
EDIT: Here’s an updated version of the opener.
Filed under: Motion/Video | Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, After Effects, Full Sail University, Illustrator, M83, Marcin Zeglinski, Moonchild, Motion Graphics, Music Video, Photoshop
Howdy, all. Here is my final for Advanced Motion Graphics. It’s a 30-second music visualization video for a song of our choosing. I chose to do M83’s “Moonchild”, as it’s one of my favorite songs ever. I get such a strong emotion and imagery whenever I listen to that song, so I wanted to convey that same emotion and sense of awe in the video. First off, it was such a pain to cut this song into 30 seconds. I really wanted the slow intro in there to set the scene (I tried it without, and it didn’t work well) which meant that the end gets kind of cut off. That was the opinion of some of my peers, but I guess the end doesn’t really bother me since the song just continues on in my head. I really wanted an ethereal and ambiguous feel in this piece and I was heavily influenced by “2001: A Space Odyssey”; and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the band was, too. Some people had trouble with the upside down launch shot and I couldn’t really explain my reasoning behind it that well, but I just wanted to change up the perspective. My friend, Yaric, articulated it pretty well, in that gravity is all relative. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with it; if anything, I would have liked to have made it longer.
Filed under: Motion/Video | Tags: After Effetcs, Art, Ashley Nieves, Digital Video, Documentray, DVD Studio Pro, Editing Digital Video, Final Cut Pro, Full Sail University, Illustrator, Marcin Zeglinski, Mark Koenov, Mike Bennett, Photoshop, poduski, Wes Kandel
It’s been a while, but I had a two month class so there wasn’t really anything to put up last month. This is my final for my Editing Digital Video and, by extension, Digital Video class. The intro and outro I tried to make look like ink spilling on canvas with a touch of the falling letters that I’m oh so fond of. As for the red bars, I wanted to give the video some texture as it looked flat from having desaturated the blues. I animated them reacting to the change of speakers, which I hope think gives them personality and makes the bars feel like they’re a character in the documentary. Special thanks goes out to -in alphabetical order- Mike Bennett (he really needs to put up a blog), Wes Kandel, Mark Koenov, and Ashley Nieves for being my willing and most-talented guinea pigs.
Made with a slew of applications.
Filed under: Print | Tags: Illustrator, Full Sail, Photoshop, Marcin Zeglinski, Digital Publishing, Lime Magazine, Slacktivism, InDesign, Magazine Design, Nameplate
Arr! This be my Digital Publishing final. We had to choose a social issue to design a magazine and magazine spread around. So yes, I did design Lime Magazine, mine having no affiliation with the actual, Asian-oriented Lime Magazine. I am particularly happy with the nameplate, though; I think it would stand out in a magazine rack. For the spread, I went with so-called ’slacktivism’ (wearing meaningless ribbons and lapel pins that don’t make a lick of difference.) There was no actual article written about it, so I had to splice together a few blog posts. I went sort of abstract with the cover, but I think it turned out well.
I then tried to incorporate the illustration through out the article to tie it all together. You’ll also notice the bottom banners as well as page number markers added as if they were the magazine’s proprietary assets.
FYI, those gray borders are only there as a matte for the WordPress post so that you can tell where the images end.
Clearly, this isn’t my best work, but I’ve certainly done worse
I am, however, a bit disappointed that I didn’t get to use my original table of contents design:
I love how the picture came out -made from scratch, I might add- but it had absolutely no business being next to the other images. In the end, it got cut for the sake of cohesion.
Made with (in no particular order) Maya 2008, Photoshop, Illustrator, and (for the first time ever) InDesign CS3.
Filed under: Branding | Tags: Bamboo, Branding, CS3, Digital Publishing, Final Cut Pro, Full Sail, Hue, Illustrator, Maya, Photoshop, Tablet, Wacom
This post has been a long time coming, but I definitely think that it’s paid off. For a group project, we were tasked with rebranding a product and we chose Wacom’s budget Bamboo tablet line. Firstly, we didn’t very much care for Wacom’s current logo. This reworking was made by the lovely Ashley Nieves. We then thought that we could add life to the product by making a colored line of the Bamboos, hence the “Hue”. The Bamboo logo was made by the equally lovely Kristian Zabala, whereas I made the Hue logo.
My thought with this was that the swatches on the leg of the ‘H’ would rotate so that the current tablet’s color would emanate from the middle swatch.
For our advertisement, I wanted to be very literal in the execution -but not so much that it wouldn’t fit with the other parts. Since our tag line is “color the world”, we literally colored the world. I wanted to play around with transparency, taking inspiration from transparent film, and came away with a very watercolored look. This is further enhanced by the pastel color choices, whose variety and contrast balance out their relative lightness. Taking into account the Gutenberg diagram, a line is formed to lead viewer, starting from the illustration, going into the pen, tablet, the bamboo logo, and moving down the drip toward the tagline and Wacom logo.
Based on the response we received from our first advertisement, I decided to do another illustration, this time for the banner. I continued with the water colored look, only on a much grander scale. I went with a taller format for this piece to play with verticality. This theme is also incorporated by the subject matter: New York City. I used a cooler, but no less vibrant, color scheme in order to differentiate it from the other ads and to contrast more with the tablet and text.
The concept behind this banner is to break up the illustration into three layers and put them onto separate panes of glass.
The panes would be hung spaced out from the ceiling of the building showcasing, thus, playing up the transparency of the piece, as well as perspective. As soon as a customer would walk into the store, they would be immediately drawn to the colors and grandeur of the banner.
I also made this video real quick like of the boxes. I can’t really take credit for the actual boxes -other than for input and direction- as they were made by Kris and Ashley. They took an almost exorbitant amount of time to finish, but they were well worth the wait. The video is completely seamless and loopable.
This commercial wasn’t a requirement but we thought it would put us that much over the edge…I’m proud to say that it did.
To be fair, it was Kris’ idea to animate the color of the tablets. Though in all likelihood, I would have eventually thought of it myself.
As always, made with CS3; and as sometimes, Maya and Final Cut.
