Where have I been?!

Well, many places... but that's a long story best suited when I have proper time to explain. Here are some sketches to occupy yourself with.

Pi Day Festivities

I had a mission: Bake a pie for Pi Day. Alongside another pi(e) enthusiast and dear friend, Orion, we set forth on the delicate mission of making that pie. This is pretty much a summary of said mission.



1.) Get the cherries.
2.) Make the cherry mix.
3.) Roll out the dough n' add the om nom-ables.
4.) Lattice up the pie crust.

(Not pictured: Making the dough, sprinkling the cinnamon, and throwing it in the oven. Seriously, the stronger the shot put arm, the better.)

Making pie cookies is just as important as the pie itself. Pie cookies are the bits n' pieces of pie dough that didn't get used with the lattice topping.



5.) Make pie cookies! (Orion made the best Pi symbol)
6.) Anxiously wait for the oven to be at prime temperature and bake for ~40min.
7.) Remove pie!
8.) After sharing, you'll find yourself with less than a whole pie. That's okay. It makes for a delicious breakfast.

(Not pictured: Devouring the hell outta that pie and tiredly driving home to fall asleep from pie food coma.)

Whoops. I lied. Stuff to post:

I decided to enlighten myself with Shake 4. This is the result. I took previously shot footage of myself swinging a guitar, did a garbage mask in AEFX, imported that into Shake and finished up masking out the action with key lighting and some rotoscoping with the hide/reveal functions.

I dropped in cloud footage from www.archive.org, which proved to be an interesting obstacle since every other frame it would move up and down on the y-axis. I ended up tracking only the y-axis to minimize the trembling effect, but some of it remained. So, I threw in a couple layers of movement as well as tracked the entire project to have a "camera shake." Thanks, technology!

I'd like to get my mind wrapped around some Nuke experience now.



This is a random doodle I started in Photoshop. She has a bit of Beverly Crusher (yes... as in Star Trek: TNG) to her face, don't you think? There are two because I'm currently deciding on how my monitor is deceiving me in contrast.

I can haz biz-nezz card?

Lolspeak aside, graduation is getting closer and closer. I decided to put up my business card design to make up for the lack of actual posting. Does it work that way?

Curiosity in Shirt Design

Inconvenient inspiration strikes again! I entertained the ambition of creating a shirt design for one of Woot.com's derby entries a couple of weeks ago. The theme was "Hearts", for obvious February reasons, and there was a disturbing amount of overly cheesy submissions. So, I set out to create an end-of-the-world dating scenario... because everyone loves those, right?

I hadn't tried designing a shirt before and it reintroduced me to how valuable negative space can be.

Perhaps someday this will be a shirt. Until then, I'm turning it into an animation of some sort.

I've also decided that instead of February 14th being Valentine's Day, from here on out, I will acknowledge that date only as Oregon's birthday. It seems more relevant that way.

Flash of the Yester Year

Back in the day when I used Macromedia Flash before Adobe devoured it! Stills of the backgrounds and characters I developed for experimentation in the program.







These last few are an homage to the loop of kids I grew up with. We were always in bands together, playing shows for the high school rapscallions. It didn't matter who was in the audience or if we were playing in a garage. We just played music. All... the time.

Oh, memories!