May 2011 ~ Inspire 2 Design

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Symphony of animation

1:30 AM Taohu928 No comments

A great way to get inspired or get disciplined is to look at professionals.

I found myself often pushing myself to work professional and learning almost everyday, I often caught myself watching the films of Alex Roman over and over.

His films are masterpieces in animation, very artistic combined with great photographic compositioning and perspective.

When fellow art students including myself see one of his films again we tend to get itchy hands, meaning that we are very much inspired to create once more.

These last few weeks I tend to look back the way I design. When I was younger I had nothing more then pencil and paper. Instead of designing things in high end 3d software and the latest software, I went practicing drawing in photoshop and paper.

In the old days I drew a lot of landscapes, it was easy and it keeps my imagination going.
I still need to boost my anatomy skills and look back at the basics again to refresh the mind.

Practice makes perfect.

Struggled half way the painting

little more detailing

A lot more detailing and 1.5 hours later XD

What design can do!

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This week there is a inspiring conference in amsterdam to get inspired by influential designers all over the world, the speakers listed created a great impact in the design industry

Shooting B&W

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I made a lot of pictures during the sunset yesterday, including these black and white photo's. I found it very strong that the silhouettes spring out in the pictures. We were taking photos on a building site, so the security came to escort us off the site.

Capturing the red sun

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This week there is a lot of news about the volcano eruption in Iceland, meteorologist also gave news that sunset can look interesting because of the particles floating in the sky.

I called up my friend Serdar a fellow blogger to pack his camera and rush to the bridge were we had the best view of the sunset. We we got there, we got a little disappointed because the horizon was clouded.

But you always have to make the best of it.

Underway 2 An Inspiring Day!

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Just relaxing in the train with the new copy of FRAME magazine and a good cup of fresh coffee to start the day. Preparing for the Adobe Cs5.5 Event in Amsterdam.

A day filled with knowledge and inspiration.

expo preview: Futuro (Matti suuronen)

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Don't worry, aliens aren't invading the world. If it was, then these aliens are very hip.
It's the Futuro house by Matti Suuronen, this is one of my favorites. It looks modern on the outside and very cozy and compact on the inside.

It was created in the late 60's but not a lot of them remain. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen just bought one of the prototypes, so I am very enchains to see a real one next week.