Yay! I can finally post some of the stuff I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. These two projects were pretty major and happened to be happening at the same time. Yeah, I was busy.
DIY::HCI
Here’s some pics of the DIY::HCI book I designed for Amanda. It’s full of fun instructables by various people at the DIY for CHI workshop in Boston that I wanted to go to but couldn’t make. There’s lots of fun ones in there like how to make:
- a hoodie that turns off tvs
- a rotary input device from an old hard drive
- a book publishing empire with Amazon Mechanical Turk
- a NES controller from fuse beads
…and a whole bunch of other random but awesome projects. You can buy a copy too if you’d like. This is the third book I’ve made through Lulu and I have to say I’m pretty happy with how the quality of this one came out. Everything printed nicely and the colors all look pretty good. It’s so strange to see something I’ve been making on the screen turn into something tangible I can touch and flip through.
SIFF Trailer
We spent a pretty compressed 3 weeks making shadow puppets and crazy environments and things for this year’s trailer for SIFF. I was most heavily involved in designing the characters (all but the little boy) and the syleframes & boards, which I’ll post at some point. But I also did some animation (the shadowy intro and the FIND drift to lockup) and some post production compositing/coloring afterwards. I think it ended up being pretty cool.
