Andrew Lie

photos taken by me for non-artificial food poster

2008-06-01T19:11:00.000-07:00

photos i have taken and a bit of retouching the colour
taken using Nikon D100 with low budget lighting (aka halogen desk lamp)

PRINT TEAM research

2008-06-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

as i am involved in print team so i have to find good printers that do profesionally prints

i found couple of store such as Dinkums, Kinkos, Copy Captain, printMe, Summerland printing

but because we are printing in bulk i did research on the cost as well turn out that Summerland Printing does the cheapest

if u print in bulk their cost:
A3 colour 88cents
A4 colour 55cents
A3 b/w 22cents
A4 b/w 11cents
A4 transparant sticker $5
A4 glossy sticker $2
so here you go : http://summerlandprinting.com.au

stock photo

2008-05-21T17:05:00.000-07:00

i found a great website with a great looking layout and useful for lookin for pictures

http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

PRINT TEAM sketch

2008-05-10T03:47:00.001-07:00

we came up with a concept of having a mystery band playing somewhere
and to find where, who and when, people have to solve the riddle first...

this is one of the riddle concept..

can u think of solving this question?

A website of a Multicultural Group

2008-05-08T17:41:00.000-07:00

There is a group of a student, and they form their own multicultural group and they have it in some of universities in Melbourne such as Monash, Swinburne, Deakin..

This group is called Multicultural Student Fellowship, MSF in short

http://www.msfblast.com/

youtube research

2008-05-08T17:36:00.000-07:00

Images research 2

2008-05-08T17:35:00.000-07:00

Images research

2008-05-08T17:10:00.000-07:00

Text Research

2008-05-08T17:01:00.000-07:00

RESEARCH...

Australia has always been culturally diverse. Before European settlement, it is estimated that there were 700 different Indigenous cultural groups speaking some 250 different languages. When the First Fleet arrived in Sydney in 1788, there were estimated to be about 60 different nationalities among the crew and convicts. Since then, extensive immigration from countries and cultures from around the world have extended the cultural and linguistic diversity of Australia’s population making it one of the most diverse populations in the world today.
-- http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/purpose/index.php --

The multiculturalism policy can be seen through the following core principles:
• Equality—this means all citizens are given equal rights, no matter what race or religion they are. It also ensures that people can rely on Australian law if they are discriminated against because of their cultural beliefs.
• Responsibility—this means all Australians are responsible for accepting others who have individual beliefs. It also means that we have a duty to support our democratic model of government.
• Benefits—this means we recognise that multiculturalism brings great benefits to society. And, if we continue to live in a society like this, the possibilities of success in social and business spheres are endless.
-- http://www.actnow.com.au/Issues/Multiculturalism.aspx --

A magazine about the rest of the world.
On sale in 40 countries, 3 editions, published in 4 languages, an Internet site that has won a record number of hits and critical acclaim: COLORS is a quarterly magazine that talks to young people all around the world. Established in 1991, under the editorship of Tibor Kalman, with the premise that diversity is positive but that all cultures have equal value.
COLORS magazine is a magazine that has the idea of different colors and use it as a meaning of diversity, and all cultures have equal values, it is distributed to all over the world as a mean to promote multiculturalism
-- http://www.benettongroup.com/en/whatwesay/colors_magazine.htm --

Topic for Motion Graphic

2008-05-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

at first i wanted to cover the theme of Christianity..however i do realise that he topic of religious stuff is often dislike and do not cover a lot of target audience..
so then i moved on to the 2nd topic which is Multiculturalism. I thought it is quite an important issue especially in Australia as a Multicultural country.. There was also another topic that I wanted to do, which is about Kids Today.. it is also an issue raised because of the attitude kids today..however there was no enouh resources to do this topic..

MULTICULTURALISM in detail.....
things that are related
-rainbow - colors represent different identity
-shakehand - again it is somehow related with my 1st project human right because multiculturalism is also about respecting other people who are different to us
-growing tree -> become forest/bush - it could mean growing multiculturalism, spread it around and it will become a seed for everyone
-diversity topic

AIM
I am aiming to promote multiculturalism and diversity as the main issue for people to respect each other.

Respecting each other means knowing the difference and happy to be different, and able to live with the differences, and that will make a one peaceful community of the world. With this aim, I hope that it can decrease racial discrimination.

MOTION GRAPHICS @ SEMI PERMANENT

2008-04-13T09:56:00.000-07:00

one of the speaker, that i was interested and actually do a motion graphics was the Sixty40 group.

They are well known for working in all mediums, including live action, traditional 2D, 3D animation and graphics.

the website: http://www.sixty40.com
their work: http://www.sixty40.com/reel.html

The use of Typography in Motion Graphics

2008-04-13T09:37:00.000-07:00

Motion Graphics that shows the used of 3D space

2008-04-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

I am interested of the technique where it shows the space around. It will need a careful planing of where you will put the elements and keep rotating the objects and shows the important element.

COMPUTER GENERATED MOTION GRAPHICS

2008-04-13T09:21:00.000-07:00

The term motion graphics originated with video editing in computing, perhaps to keep pace with newer technology. Before computers were widely available, motion graphics were costly and time consuming, limiting their use to only high budget film and TV projects. With the reduced cost of producing motion graphics on a computer, the discipline has seen more widespread use. With the availability of desktop programs such as Adobe After Effects, Discreet Combustion, and Apple Motion, motion graphics have become increasingly accessible.

The term "Motion Graphics" was popularized by Trish and Chris Meyer's book about the use of Adobe After Effects, titled "Creating Motion Graphics". This was the beginning of desktop applications which specialized in video production, but were not editing or 3D programs. These new programs collected together special effects, compositing, and color correction toolsets, and primarily came between edit and 3D in the production process.

Motion graphics continues to evolve as an art form with the incorporation of sweeping camera paths and 3D elements. Maxon's CINEMA 4D is known for its ease of use, integration with Adobe After Effects, and plugins such as MoGraph. Despite their relative complexity, Autodesk's Maya and 3D Studio Max are also widely used for the animation and design of motion graphics. Maya — traditionally used for high-end special effects and character animation — has the advantage of including an extremely robust feature set and wide-ranging user base. 3D Studio Max has many of the advanced features of Maya and uses a mode-based particle system generator similar to Cinema 4D's Thinking Particles plugin. There are also some other packages in Open Source panorama, which are gaining more features and adepts in order to use in a motion graphics workflow. Blender and its node-editor is becoming more and more powerful.

Many motion graphics animators learn several 3D graphics packages for use according to each programs' strengths.

Motion graphics has begun to integrate many traditional animation techniques as well, including stop-motion animation and cell animation.

sourced from wikipedia.org

initial layout

2008-03-09T11:07:00.000-07:00

its not finished yet as a layout

but it should look similar like this, i wanna incorporate the use of film slide and the screen on my layout, and put some interactivity in

sketches

2008-03-09T10:39:00.000-07:00

designmeltdown.com

2008-03-09T08:19:00.000-07:00

this website http://www.designmeltdown.com/ is using a pretty good soft colours, and i do like it a lot, i will somehow incorporate the style in my web assignment...although i dont really like how the layout looks like, it just looks tooo plain

current style in web-design

2008-03-09T08:02:00.000-07:00

i found this website pretty useful

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm

it shows us the current style of web-design

here's the quote from the web
"This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages, and identify the distinctive features that make a web page look fresh, appealing and easy to use."

it also says that these listed below are the most common features in web-designing currently

The great sites above share the following design features:

simple layout
centered orientation
design the content not the page
3d effects used sparingly
soft, neutral background colours
strong colours used sparingly
cute icons used sparingly
plenty of whitespaces
nice big text

website that inspires me

2008-03-09T07:51:00.000-07:00

during monday class, i did say that i wanted to use some kind of black and white for my colour scheme, what i meant to say is i want to use the grayscale colours

this is the website that i was inspired by

its called http://www.lifelounge.com/

Logos sketches

2008-03-02T09:04:00.001-08:00

here's what i have for the HRAFF logos

ur comments will be appreciated :)

Example of logos

2008-03-02T08:58:00.000-08:00

I found this website pretty useful, it gives u an inspiration of creating a logo :)

http://logopond.com/

here's the screenshot :) cheers!

Hello People!

2008-03-02T06:25:00.000-08:00

Well, there isn't much for now..

But I will soon upload some stuff!