June 30th, 2009
Original Chalk Board Animation
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I recently finished up a fun hand drawn animation project for UF & Shands and thought I’d post the original chalk board animation up since a little of the details and hand made charm is lost in the final. Its still a bit rough around the edges and everything but i kinda like it that way. I had roughly two weeks to turn this around so under the time constraints I’m really happy with how it came out. Each frame is drawn by hand so as you can imagine a fair amount of love/patience went into it. Cheers to Curtis Baigent and Ken Stewart for giving me a hand with drawing. Check out the work section for the final project.
April 9th, 2009
The last week has been pretty lucky for me as I managed to pick up two awards. Pretty much just as I got off the plane from SE Asia I went to the New Zealand Axis awards to find that my Deaf Awareness ad won a gold axis! I was quite surprised since there has only been three golds given in the last 10 years so I feel quite fortunate to have won it! A few days later I heard that I placed second in the First Boards Awards held in NYC. The competition was pretty tight as always and has some really amazing guys from around the world so I feel really lucky to be a part of that as well.
Boards Winners
Article in Boards Magazine
Axis Winners
February 28th, 2009
Boards Magazine just announced their finalists for the First Boards Awards and I was fortunate to be in the top three for Motion Design and Animation. I believe the results will be featured in the May addition of Boards Magazine so keep a watch out for how I did!
February 25th, 2009
So this year one of my design goals is to post more work than just the final product so I will be able to look back and see development. I think I want to use the news section to pin up works in progress, boards, or just parts of things that I make for other things that might get lost in showcasing the final product. I’m all about design process and progression of ideas so this might be a good place to show some of my other work that might not necessarily be quite as polished.
I just started helping on a project ad and was given a shot with the word “divine” being the main type treatment. The commercial is quite floral and feminine so I needed to make a type treatment that reflects that. I thought it might be cool to try to make a chandelier out of type for the shot so I started by making a spread and the word divine out of pretty classic Nouveau shapes and go from there. I started animating it and really liked the shapes it made when I turned it into a animated mobile/chandelier so I went with it.
February 24th, 2009
I just heard that deaf awareness is a finalist in the 2009 Axis awards in 5 categories! A pleasant surprise since I only thought it was in one. Better chances of getting an award i guess, I’ll take that! Deaf Awareness recently took bronze in the Sydney AWARD so I’m curious to hear how it fares back in New Zealand.
February 4th, 2009
Hello. Welcome to my new web log/portfolio. Special thanks to Solomon Gebbie for setting this up and doing all the coding. Please feel free to comment or shoot me an email, I’m always keen for feedback or hellos at sdekkers@gmail.com Enjoy.
