Creative Inspiration: Danny Yount, Prologue

Prologue is one of my favorite design studios.  You've seen their work in major films including Iron Man, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Incredible Hulk, Sherlock Holmes and more. Danny Yount (previously of Digital Kitchen, one of my other favorite design studios!) is one of the lead creatives at Prologue and recently spoke at this event in Hong Kong. For more on Prologue, visit their website at:   www.prologue.com

Recent project - Logo animation

Here's a short little project I completed in my spare time in December.  This was for a local production company called Urge Productions.  Just s simple logo animation for a local organization that's part of the University of San Francisco.  The music was custom scored to the animation and I think it came out really nicely!
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Happy 2011!

I was recently visited by my old friend Raffi aka Etchy and was reminded that I haven't blogged on AnD in ages! He stayed with me here in San Francisco on his way between Hong Kong and Maryland.  The photo is from our dinner with some old wushu friends, including my old wushu classmate, friend and AnD member  Read more

Some recent Styleframes

Just uploaded a few samples of some styleframes that I've worked on during the past few months.

http://www.alivenotdead.com/djbam/Motion-Graphic-Design-profile-980279.html

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300 sq feet apartment in Hong Kong

Friend just sent me this link:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak&feature=player_embedded

BTW, I had an AWESOME time in Hong Kong (all 46 hours of it), as well as an amazing time in Bali and Singapore.  Will be posting up some photos soon!

Bali, Singapore, Hong Kong!

Bali, Singapore, Hong Kong!

ORBITAL!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjEza5SAA5c&feature=related going to see Orbital tonight!

the one and only time i ever saw them was in 1999, here in San Francisco.  then they broke up as a group and i thought i'd never see them again.

but low and behold, they're back!

for those not familiar with Orbital, you may know them from "the song from the 'Hackers' soundtrack."

i have so many of their cl...Read more

Hong Kong in two weeks!

HK, I'll be inside you for only 3 days and two nights in exactly two weeks!  April29-May1st.

it's been 2 years since i've been to Hong Kong.  can't wait!

(going to Singapore and Bali before hitting HK)

Vote for our music video!

Well, the video is over a year old but it's now a finalist in an indie music video competition!

This is a video my classmates and I produced while we were still in school.  We hand drew all the illustrations, watercolor paints, built a working popup book, shot video, animated like crazy!

If you have a moment, please vote for our video, "President" by Alexis Harte.

http://visualcrunch.myx.tv/votenow/

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