jacobmake

a few more at flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/hebchop/5689874489/in/photostream

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It’s been some time and I still can’t get bison off the brain. “Indian Head” or “Bison” nickels were always an object of curiosity when I was young.  I’ve been experimenting with creating a little mint of my own from assets from my first bison sketch. I’m playing with the idea of creating a bison [...]

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Last night during an epic storm I was rolling in and out of consciousness and ended up having a dream where I was emphatically preaching about branding. Dream Jacob said: “The best brands fulfill an emotional need.“ He continued: “We all use certain products in our day-to-day. The products that we decide to use have [...]

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Star Light, Star Bright

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I read this book a while back. The American Bison as a symbol/metaphor was one of the books main themes. The animal was powerful, abundant, and dumb as a rock. There are some interesting bits about Buffalo Nickels in the book. Buffalo nickels were a part of my childhood. I remember studying the powerful beast [...]

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The St. Louis All-Star game has come and gone. It was nice to have our city in the spotlight for a week. Many people were involved to prepare the city for this swell of attention. I did my fair share by helping to build an experience to greet travelers on behalf of the St. Louis [...]

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Again tooling around w/ Trapcode for someone on the print team. Might make it into a comp for Ghost of Versaillles.

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I recently had a video project that was going to be displayed vertical monitor w/ a looping DVD. I was presented w/ a problem regarding pixel aspect ratio. After Effects, Quick Time, FCP all have built in aspect ratios for certain settings. DV / NTSC has a 720×480 format with a 0.9 pixel ratio. The [...]

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I took the nest a bit further. I sketched out some twig shapes, scanned them in, and traced them into vectors. Also added some color variation. I might play with pulling color information from an image w/ getPixel and maybe write it out to a massive PNG and get it printed. I’ve got some other [...]

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Dan had me whip up this for a background of a comp he was working on. Trapcode Particular did all the hard work, but it might fit w/ some of the other stuff I’m doing here.

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