Inside “Regard” season 1
April 9, 2008
The short film festival “Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay” just wrapped up and the videos I was working on over the past couple of weeks just been put online by our Director, Philippe Arsenault. I am not gonna elaborate too much because it’s in french but it’s a satire mocking shows like Extra,Access,e-talk when they do big festival coverage. Kudos to Philippe for coordinating all of this with an amazing budget of 0$.
Here are the videos that were presented each nights of the festival.
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
and this is the DVD package Phil designed for the first season:
The team:
Director, Editor & Coordination - Philippe Arsenault
Anchor - Joël Martel
Interviewer - Pierre-Olivier Tremblay
Production Director - Marilyne Renaud
D.O.P - Ken Allaire
Set & Best boy - Guillaume Ouellet
Music - Pascal Beaulieu
Motion Design - Nicolas Alexander
Music Channel Ident
March 27, 2008
update:video fixed
Short 3d experiment I just finished.
“Why trust you - Alice Cooper” 
Boxed
March 3, 2008
Relationships.
Mineral?
March 2, 2008
Mineral is the word of the day
A brief guide about Bridesmaids
February 29, 2008
Update: march 8th : Motionographer: “VFS Student expound the importance of bridesmaids with clever type and clean design”
Update: march 1st: we’re featured on “No fat clips“ , “Computerlove” ,“VFSBlog” and “Makecurves”
A brief guide about bridesmaids is an infographic I created with Yaniv Fridman and Amber MacKay for our Motion design class at Vancouver Film school. It’s been a crazy 7 weeks of production almost doing nothing else but this. You can watch the video below or go to www.bridesmaidsguide.com to see a Higher quality video.
You can also watch the early storyboard/animatic we did 5 weeks ago before starting creating the final assets for the piece.
We created a site for the video as well as a blog that we will update with tutorial on how we created everything from drawings to final look here
Special thanks to Eric Torin, Emily Smith, Missy Reyes, DD10 and Vancouver Film School
Mobiles Title Sequence
February 28, 2008
This is a title sequence experiment I did for a movie called ” Mobiles” Directed by Philippe Arsenault in 2005.
edit: note that this is only the titles which then fades to the movie…just to avoid confusion. 
I used Gill Sans Bold for this one because I think most people when they approach type the way I did here(style/look), automatically choose helvetica. Gill sans, being a humanist typeface, feels way less geometric, more human natural and has pretty much the same legibility on screen (for this at least) which was appropriate in this case considering the movie.
Avant Garde Type study
February 28, 2008
This is my final assignment for my term 3 typography class at VFS. Here’s the result of my findings including quick facts about the typeface and my final specimen sheet.
ITC AVANT GARDE
Avant-garde is a French idiom that represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm. The typeface of the same name was designed by Herb Lubalin and was based on a logo he created for “avant-garde” magazine in 1968. His task commissioned by Ralph Ginzberg was to promote “the advanced, the innovative, the creative” of his new magazine to create a futuristic and instantly recognizable identity.
The creation of the logo was a really hard undertaking due to highly incompatible letterforms combinations. This challenge resulted in a wide set of ligatures. Due to an extremely high demand for a complete type setting in the design community, He designed ITC avant-garde for his International Typeface Corporation in 1970.
I also decided to include an early specimen experiment that didn’t make it for my final but I really liked, probably because of the XA ligature.
DD blog Re-design
February 22, 2008
If you are coming from the DDBlog I hope you don’t expect too much by reading this because this is only to show you the wireframe and the grid I will be working with for the DDBlog redesign. Everything here including colors, fonts & text is just placeholder for something that is going to be way less boxy & dull. I am pretty sure I can defend my design choices so far concerning placing and size of the elements but if you have major complaints, go for it, theres a comment box below.
I think the screenshot is self-explanatory ( at least it’s supposed to be). 3 comlumn grid, Main navigation on the side, secondary nav below the fold. I got rid of the categories and the archives lists because it takes a huge amount of space and most of the readers are returning users visiting the blog to read the newest posts. Use the search bar people!
I am trying to make the blog easier to use to increase participation so hopefully it’ll work, fingers crossed. next step. the pretty stuff. I have been trying not to think about the visuals to much to focus on the usability. So what will it be? Minimalistic? Web 2.0? Illustration? Hand drawn? Type-heavy? Tell me what you like or post a link of your favourite blog in the comments.
Design 1 thing everyday
February 22, 2008
Jamie Peterson, Shalinder Matharu, Yaniv Fridman and myself are starting a new project, unnamed yet but the goal is to design 1 thing everyday based on a word picked by one of us. A picture, a thought, a video… anything inspired by the word of the day. We are currently designing website/calendar to showcase our “design of the day”.
Comming soon…
JULIA SULLIVAN’S BLOG
February 19, 2008
Interesting blog from Julia Sullivan. Click image.
