Rustic Photo's

One thing that I like to do when I find related imagery, is to start to group images together. I find that this helps me in order to start making collection. I think that one thing that I could do.

Photography

I've always had a passion for photography, so when I started to look at areas of interest for my self directed project, I wasn't surprised that I started to look at Photography. I started to look at Black and White/ Sepia photography as I really like this type of aesthetic. Taking into consideration my passion for photography it would interesting to try to incorporate the type of photography that I like within a project somehow.

http://www.torfehgroup.com/en/photography.php

http://www.wea.org.uk/weanews/autumn_competition.htm

http://www.studio7designs.com/photography/

http://www.old-picture.com/crimean-war/000/Photography-Wagon-001.htm

Something that I noticed as I started to look for research related to photography was that I was drawn to vintage looking images. Looking at some of the images found above I love a lot of the compositions found in the pictures. I think the way that the cropping of some of these images is interesting. This is definately an area to develop further in terms of research.

Initial Ideas

I've been thinking about ideas for our self directed project recently. I want to make sure that I develop a strong idea to base the project around, rather than having an idea that doesn't have much to explore. One thing that I want to ensure is that I don't rush into making a piece of work using a particular method i.e. 3D, but explore the options.

For a while now I've wanted to take the opportunity to explore the use of 2.5d in a piece, which was my initial thought when given this brief, but I've decided to step back a bit and put 'possible production' methods to the side for now. This isn't to say that I won't use this method but at this stage I think that considering the subject matter is more important.

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Showreel from Matt Geeling on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/user4192901

A bit of Modeling

I created this last week for somebody. they wanted a pig modeling to use as a logo. Heres a shot of my final result:

I made this using polygons and took reference from different sources. Below is a grab from a video that i found on youtube. I decided to draw inspiration from this in terms of modeling and possible shapes to use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R770sZ3yQfA

Morph London

Heres the Ident that I created for Morph London. I enjoyed making this Ident as I found it interesting just using type and basic shape.

Morph London from Matt Geeling on Vimeo.

Million Stories

I found the animation below whilst on the Do Lectures blog. I like the simplicity of this animation. What I mean about that is the clean, uncluttered approach. Clearly as with most advertising the idea is to get people hooked and interested. The animation has a clear narrative, which is important in order to keep peoples interest.

Million Stories from Desire Engström on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/11008024