Pet-Peeve

Is it weird that it bothers me when people say monochromatic when referring to grayscale images? Since when does "one colour" mean "no colour?" The word for that is "achromatic." Thanks.

Mesozoic Tales

There's a chance, I might have done more than necessary in this final assignment of DMA234 (aka computer graphics and imaging). We had to come up with a story board for a banner for a microsite dedicated to our skateboard deck from first semester (mine was titled "Mesozoic").

What I did that I've heard was not required, is the landing page as well as main microsite mockup.

The style we were asked to use as inspiration was that of psychobilly/rockabilly poster design. I asked if the horror comics style from the days of "Tales From The Crypt" would be acceptable, being they were stylistically similar, and I was approved.The mockups here would of course be centred, and I felt a black background would be most appropriate. Feel free to check them out at: http://infinitesima.net/DMA234/mesozoic/mesozoic_lp.html

http://infinitesima.net/DMA234/mesozoic/mesozoic_mp.html
...Also, for the cover, rather than "Terror" or "Horror" or the name of a registered comics publication company name, I thought "Mesozoic Press" would be reasonable and sound somewhat dated as a comics company name. It was too long however, so I initialed Mesozoic, and went with MPRESS, which I think was somehow more clever, lending to the possibility that I might have meant impress or empress.

Holy feathers and scales, Batman...

*note: I used exclamation marks stylistically. I otherwise avoid using them almost entirely. I believe it was F. Scott Fitzgerald (though it is often attributed to Mark Twain) who once said "Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

"The Horror... The Horror..."

My ideation came immediately while researching rockabilly and psychobilly poster design. Although I have come across imagery that remind me of Grindhouse style movie posters (and I would love to create one of those sometime soon), I was most compelled to create a horror comic book concept for my final project in DMA234.

I already had a style guide and skateboard from last semester to work with, as well as all of the individual elements I created for it; each basic element on that skate-deck not only has its own layer in the final file, but I actually still have dedicated files for each of them, so reuse was no problem at all. I shall save the posting of redundant imagery and simply refer to the assets I've reused.

The Carnotaurus sketch from my original ideation of the deck made its way to photoshop for some colouring. I left the light pencil detail to give it a gritty look.

The feather was a vector trace from a real fossil that I copied over (as there was only one authentic image I could find and it was quite a trace job, if I may say)

The lady screaming is taken from part of an image I drew of an actual woman from a life-drawing class I attended. I was amazed at how cool she looked once coloured with the scream text behind her. The original image scan quality was quite low, so I traced it again as my first layer.

I used inspiration from a common horror comic cover 'template' most recognizably used by "Tales From The Crypt." Also, I found a random horror comic page to use for framing.

Rather than use the seal of the Comics Code Authority, or what ever branch was labeled on these comics, I gave my own Infinitesima seal, and lowered the saturation.

Infinitesima

So, you might have noticed my personalized branding change, with a new logo. This is because I'm in the process of coding my website as we speak, and this blog will be linked from there. So my blog is your sneak peak to the site itself.

HDR

My first HDR shots. In Digital Photography, we were given an assignment to shoot 30-40 shots in 30mins. I converted these images to HDR just for fun. The cloud over Seneca is my obvious favourite

Rickard's Constable

iDiscover

My iPhone app concept for Discovery Channel.