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Updating my Illustrator skills

rluchun — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:22:05 +0000

I decided to brush up on my Illustrator skills, so I did a number of tutorials, mainly based on icon designs which I found on http://vector.tutsplus.com/. Having done theses, I’m going to start producing my own vector work both icons and illustrations.

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Clapper Board

Calendar

Designed for a QVC marketing campaign

Magic wand

Gears

Based on the Mac’s System Preferences icon

CD

Aperture style camera lens

Speaker

Old 3D work – Part 2

rluchun — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:20:35 +0000

Here are some pieces of 3D work I done during my time at university.

RSA – Artificial Intelligence animation

This was my entry for the RSA (Royal Society of Arts), where I had to come up with a storyboard for an animation about Artificial Intelligence. The story was about an an electronic chessboard where the pieces control themselves. I did the storyboards as well as producing a linetest.

Peperami

This was a personal project I undertook when I left university. I choose a drawing that I did back in the early nineties and began modeling it in 3D. I decided that I wasn’t going to animate it, just concentrate on modeling and textures, as I did not really expand upon this before.

I done the original drawing during a time where I would copy from interesting pieces I saw. This was from a Peperami advert I saw in a magazine.

Animation show reel from university

Old 3D work – Part 1

rluchun — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:06:27 +0000

I went through my computer the other night, and found some old 3D work I did back when I was at university. So I got myself a Vimeo account and uploaded some of the animations I done. Most of this work is 8-9 years old now, so I often wonder where my skill level would had I continued it.

The Elements

This was one of my first animations, done back in 2000, animating the four different elements.

Corkscrew

While the elements brief was running I also had to choose a household object and attempt to model it 3D. I do not know what I was thinking but I decided to choose a corkscrew, which at the time seem extremely hard for a beginner but looking back was a good challenge.

PDA product & interface design

For this brief I had to design a new form of PDA, with a themed interface. My idea was a PDA which was smaller than the current ones currently out at the time, where the screen could fold out at the push of a button. For the interface I looked at Mondrian for an inspired theme, using the thick lines and block colours to build the user-interface.

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Below is a video of how the PDA would operate.

I am going to post some more work next week so keep an eye out!

3D text effect using Photoshop and Illustrator

rluchun — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:03:56 +0000

Here is something I knocked up while looking at 3D text effects that are possible using Illustrator and Photoshop. Downloaded the texture from Smashing Magazine.

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3D line test

rluchun — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:15:43 +0000

After seeing Al at work playing about with 3D studio Max, made me want to want to go back to my 3D animation days. So I had a go at playing about with Havoc plugin. Nice once you get it working, maybe later when I have a chance I will knock up something a bit more exciting.