Working here at Scecon, I have picked up lots of ‘real-world’ knowledge. I would like to pass some of this along to you, boys and girls.

Today we will be learning about backgrounds for television broadcasting. A 15 black/85 white mix will appear white on camera. A pretty standard range is 40%-60% black. Then they can do all sorts of fancy lighting and whatnot to it to their hearts content.

So there that is.

Flash, Illustrator

Experimental interface and photo-manipulation used to study the interaction of objective verse emotional perception of 24 hours in my life.

The intro acts as a short tutorial. An objective, chronological depiction of the day is along the top, simple photographs in black and white with text presenting factual information. Along the left side, these same events are order according to emotional energy, with the best at the top and the worst at the bottom.

After Effects, Illustrator

Done as part of a series of typography // animation explorations. The project was to animate the meaning of the word using only black & white typography in 10 seconds or less.

The word here is decoy: a device or event meant as a distraction.

After Effects, Illustrator

Done as part of a series of typography // animation explorations. The project was to animate the meaning of the word using only black & white typography in 10 seconds or less.

The word here is fragile: easily broken or damaged or destroyed.

Chalk

Colored Paper

Colored Pencil

Studies of a car, done in different styles with different techniques.