This is a music video for “Teenage Spaceman” by Booka Shelf, directed by Camiren Romero. I was the D.P., shooting on a Canon 7D. We were switching off between a macro and a wide angle lens for the shots. I absolutely love shooting with the 7D. It’s so liberating being able to swap out lens to get a certain look, not restricted to a built in lens and adapters. Full credits are after the break.
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I have a thing for awesome icon design. There’s something really fun and challenging about reducing a large concept down to a simple image, often without words or photographic detail. The wallpaper on my laptop is actually made of the icons for Epcot Center attractions, which are all fantastic. I’m in the middle of redesigning my career website, and I was trying to come up with an icon for the concept of web development. I messed around with a lot of the typical ideas (Who doesn’t love the letters “WWW” in crazy fonts?), and eventually I came up with this. I started thinking about common elements in web design and code, and what would be more common in the less-than and greater-than signs? Toss in a graphic of Earth (and a bias toward my hemisphere), and there you go. I really love the way this turned out.  Less Earth Greater Web Icon by Andrew Hymas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.androsko.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.androsko.com/contact.
In getting ready to go to SIGGRAPH, I wanted to update my professional image. I have a career website (www.andrewhymas.com), and I had my old “Write. Shoot. Edit.” logo (which you can see after the break), but I’m not really happy with either anymore. They’re a little to direct and big, and I’m leaning toward scaled down, minimalist design lately. After a long time tweaking and refining, I came up with a new logo for myself, which you can see above. I call it the “Balance” logo. If you want to know what it means, keep reading after the break.
SIGGRAPH stands for “Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques”. It’s basically a technology and digital animation expo that’s shaped everything in digital media for the past few decades. Every major player, from Industrial Light and Magic to Pixar, has participated and contributed over the years. Here’s what the site has to say about it:
There are some awesome seminars planned, and I’m particularly looking forward to the ones on 3D objects in Photoshop CS5 and shooting VFX with DSRL cameras. Of course, the opportunity to meet some of the Pixar people in person is reason enough for me to go. And speaking of Pixar and SIGGRAPH, I posted the first ever Pixar short film after the break. It debuted at SIGGRAPH in 1984 while Pixar was still part of Lucasfilm. You may recognize a few of the names in the credits.
Note: I put the full sized image after the break, just on the off chance that somebody finds spoilers in it. I don’t think there are any, but I wouldn’t want to be that guy. This is a piece I made based on a scene in the last episode of Lost. I don’t want to give anything away, but for the people that have seen it, you know what’s going on here. All the shapes are done in Illustrator, but the rain effect is a Photoshop image of a grain layer with angled strokes applied. There’s also a little use of Illustrator gradients. I used a few freeze frames as references, but I didn’t trace anything from them. The total image is actually a composite of elements from three freeze frames, so you won’t find this exact framing in the episode. Enjoy! |
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It’s official. The arrangements have been made. At the end of July, I’ll be heading down to LA for SIGGRAPH 2010.