Bell Ad 1

For DMA101, we were asked to create two ads for Bell's summer campaign. We were given two ads from a winter campaign and told to use the same offers. We also had to create our own lyrical "Bellement" unique to each layout.

**The new poster's source

Here is the original image I found on google to create my new poster.
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7113/shark01wu5.jpg

**New: ROM Poster II

So I have finally completed my second attempt at the megalodon poster for ROM. Might I say I like it much more. I kept true to my original idea of the shark jumping at you after presumably looked at other calmer posters reading "Not a great white..."

Here, I've placed the new feature poster beside the hippo poster for effect.

**Rattlesnake

I'm not going to say anything in an attempt to be witty. It's a rattlesnake.

**Scorpion

Come're! Oh, wait... We're not playing Mortal Kombat. But there was a "Desert" level in Ultimate MK3...

**Anglerfish

One of the more disturbing looking creatures seen on the "Ocean Deep" episode of Planet Earth. This guy also made an appearance in Finding Nemo. Lets's just hope he doesn't appear the next time you go swimming.

**Giant Squid

Not the mechanical one as seen in such blog entries as Swatch This! and Swatchless, but the one you I drew for the zoo...

**The Killer Whale

Not actually in captivity...

Not even real...

**The Penguins

Not Pittsburg. Think colder...

**...and The Zebra

If you are asking yourself "Why is the Zebra telling us to forget Norway?"

It's not that he doesn't like Norway; but he'd really like you to visit Kenya. He doesn't know his life is in danger there, however...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYtASAakAI

**Lion

Some sort of coup must have happened forcing the king of the jungle into exile. Welcome to our first stop in The Savanna.

**Red Eye Treefrog

It must have been the eyes that made me decide to pair the bushbaby with Kermit's evil cousin

**Bushbaby

Our first stop in the Rainforest Bio-area, is visiting the bushbaby.

**The Guide To The Jayson Hopkins Paper Zoo

Welcome to The Jayson Hopkins Paper Zoo. It's a free visit, so please excuse the fact that we have only ten animals in five different Bio-areas: Rainforest, Savanna, Arctic, Ocean and Desert. Please have a look at the following map:

I participated in the creation of The Arctic.

**Paper Animals

The animals are not yet in their habitats. I had some difficulty with the photoshop procedure at school and nobody was around. It was late anyways, so I'm leaving them in their cages overnight. They'll be in their habitats tomorrow.

**From their natural habitat

So I'm a little behind. Sound project and weekend-full of Puscifer.

We're going on this trip to the paper zoo, and I'll maintain that all theme parks have problems, as John Hammond pointed out in the film version of Jurassic Park... "When Disneyland openned in 1954, nothing worked." These paper animals cannot "eat the tourists..."

Here are my source images, which I used to reference my drawings/poses:

Orca- http://myanimalblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/orca.jpg

Penguin- http://www.rune-gjeldnes.com/Img/20060501-Emperor%20Penguins.jpg

bushbaby- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsxNoQwyff_bwVkZkPIcQXLqZylkkF4yqgOYxQNEc4lQHnaB4RrhewN6UGMPEpIkZ7KUVy2_6XXzdSAgRNlKGdTatx2Gyfuw5GrmsEy7eEO-syfADF2_iP7urUDD_VjF49tsd8ZRLp83I/s400/lesser+bushbaby.jpg

frog- http://spyglasshill.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/red-eye-tree-frog-7550-13.jpg

lion- http://www.africa-nature-photography.com/images/Captive-Male-Lion-L.jpg

zebra- http://www.gotpetsonline.com/pictures-gallery/exotic-pictures-breeders-babies/zebra-pictures-breeders-babies/pictures/zebra-0003.jpg

rattle- http://psyopper.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/rattle-snake-coiled.jpg

scorpion- http://room42.wikispaces.com/file/view/death-stalker-scorpion.jpg/33410931/death-stalker-scorpion.jpg

angler fish- http://wordsofdivine.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/angler-fish.jpg

Perfect.

I won't get into too much a tangent about quantum entanglement...

My Megalodon poster really needs to come back a few intersections and make a turn that I missed. I was asked to come back tomorrow at the school's bookstore, at which time I will order CS4. Once that happens, this poster goes away, at least in the sense that my formal design will be seriously overhauled.

Great minds perhaps think alike. When I looked closely, it occurred to me a fellow DMA student has a poster with the same source image that she had completed before I even started. Hers is notably different of course, in that the shark has been photoshopped underwater and angled in a very pleasing way, compositionally speaking. Mine is angled upright and reflected with radial zoom blur to give the sense it is coming at you. I nearly got dizzy trying to find the correct zoom. Mine is also screened with a blue tint, all of which I did in illustrator (lacking photoshop).

What got me to the point, however, of having the overwhelming need to redo this poster, was just a few minutes ago, while toying with the idea of a new image I googled one word differently than I had before and found this at http://www.belchfire.net/screenshots/Great_White_XP.jpg

See post "FML. Figuratively speaking..."

FML. Figuratively speaking....

**ROM Poster I

Rather than a single poster, I decided to do a mini campaign, with one main poster as the focus. I think if I had to choose one poster to go with my main, it would obviously be the hippo, but I included a couple other images just for trial.

See entry titled "**New: ROM Poster II"

Sources: kewlwallpapers.com - puppy

freewallpaperz.info - moose

wallpapers.yah.in - hippo

sharkattackphotos.com - shark

**The Morlocks.

Now are we referring to the band of more unpleasant mutants living in the subways of New York, led by Callisto in the X-Men? Or could it be the human off-shoot race of underground dwellers from "The Time Machine?"

In the case of the X-Men, had I been Nightcrawler, things would have been much different. Although not a Morlock, I could have used my teleportation and acrobatic ability to get downtown in a much more timely fashion. Now that I think of it, I'm sure one of the Morlocks could probably teleport. But Nightcrawler's just always been one of my favourite Marvel characters, so I'm stickin with him.

In the H.G. Wells scenario, at least I'd have access to a time machine, so that I might go back to that day and arrive at the time the rest of the people were still there. Of course anybody familiar with that story would conclude events would still occur preventing my success to preserve the present moment decision to build and use a time machine, or somebody with just a general interest in temporal mechanics, might conclude the causality loop would effect my outcome infinitely: I arrived late, so I build the time machine to go back in time to wake myself earlier, and then get there on time. And since I got there on time, I don't need to build a time machine, so I don't. I don't go back and wake myself up, so I'm late and need a to build a time machine to go back...etc. Doc Brown was a good professor when I was in grade 3. So was Data (see "Starbase," hahaha)

Anyways. I was up until 5 or so Friday morning working on a fairly involved Illustrator project for DMA101- The Human III. When I woke up, I took my wake-up photo, looking like a can of smashed assholes. Needless to say I don't feel like putting it up. I decided that rather than just abandon the whole experience, I went downtown anyways. I left from Aurora at about 1pm, and arrived at St.Andrew stn at about 2:45pm. Everybody else had since left, so I took a photo of the buildings overhead and decided that I would retire back into the subway to return home for more homework, which was coincidentally the same project I had worked on all the previous night.

I wish I could have been downtown with the others. But I feel justified in why I was not.

(Amendment: The aim of this project was to get us in groups outside of school. Since this project, I have gone drinking with people from class. That might not count for marks, but it counted for one of the objectives... and toward a good St. Patty's)

NOT MY WORK

It appears I was beaten. I Googled Lego Mona Lisa and bam. http://www.flickr.com/photos/udronotto

The Zen of Lego

My third 3D illustration is a Big-Belly Buddha if he were a Lego-person. I felt the famous Lego-face smile was an appropriate expression of enlightenment.

The subtlety of the smile made me nearly switch gears to do a Lego Mona Lisa, but time was not on my side-for the purpose of submission. I intend to create one soon.

Unless it's been done before. If not, you heard it here first.

Starbase

Admittedly, I'm a recovering Star Trek addict. TNG was a strong influence in my opening of imagination though, so when I say recovering, I lie a little. I don't watch it religeously anymore, but I will still watch it. I was a little rushed in this, my second 3D illustrator project, as well as my third. The Human III was just so involved.

Windows et cetera would be cool.

San Jose Megalodons? Nope, but still Sharks

This is my sports logo vector trace project for DMA101, one of the San Jose Sharks' alternate logos.

Source Image for trace from sportslogos.net

I could not find the correct font (or mix of fonts), but rather than give up, I decided to go ahead with the trace. Unfortunately, accuracy was a challenge, as the image was very pixalated at the magnification I would need. I think I did a good job considering.

The Human III

I posted and then decided to add just the little details at the front of the tank's hull and to make the flesh of The Human, as well as the colour of the tank, a little darker. I also moved the graffity [somebody] had scrawled on the turret.

(psst... it's my signature...)

The Human III (Draft)

This is my fourth work featuring my character, 'The Human.'

The first work was a series of prints featuring several of these characters who actually had bodies, with engines on their back and wheels attached to their hips, in the place of legs. The prints, or the original dye I made may exist at my high school, but I believe none remain. I believe the title was "Evolve?"

"The Human" was a marker drawing I did, reprising the bald head with an "oralfactory-pipe", this time, of a singular character with the severed torso, on a wall at a friend's apartment. The Human in that drawing was suspended by large tubes.

It was the first work where I used the particular words "The Human" as it's designation. The idea is that this is the last 'human' at some point in a hopefully alternate future. That work did not survive; the wall was painted over before this friend moved.

I recreated "The Human" as a sculpture. It too, was officially titled "The Human," but I might refer to it as "The Human II." I may choose at some point to display it on my blog, but it's photgraph does not serve the work. It is best viewed in real life. Rather than the severed torso, there is a fade into the background at about that point. That sentence may not seem to make sense, for a sculpture, but trust me.

I sketched "The Human III" with intent to submit it as my vector trace assignment in DMA101, but the image was not approved, due to it's background, hard break and that it was not a stand-alone character. The image just works better in 3D anyways, and since we were not required to seek approval this time, here he is.

I should stop working on this at some point.