Art and Design in Movies!!! Evaluating Movie Trailers!

I know this isnt a Design post as such but I just wanted to feature some of the awesome trailers for some Blockbuster movies that are coming out. When I say ‘design post’ I mean I am not posting inspirational pictures etc. but it is still relevant as these sorts of movies can inspire pictures to create and the detail placed into movies now-a-days is remarkable. Special Effects have blasted off and are so realistic it makes you think that there is a chance that some of things could be real. The special effects in movies are the same principal as when creating a surreal picture. You still want the picture to be photo-realistic BUT you want to convey your creativity and personal touch. It all ends up relying on how much time you are willing to spend on each picture and whether you want t0 whip a picture and pay no attention to detail or if you want to create a piece of art that really makes the viewer feel like they are there. Here are some trailers that take art to another level. Watchmen, that is coming out in a couple of days is a classic example of taking art and making into a blockbuster movie that really takes the viewer to another world. Trailers inside >>>>

My Top 10 Favourite Light Painting Photographs

In one of my Art subjects that I am doing I am doing the theme ‘Advertising’, this is a very hard theme to do for art especially if you want to explore different mediums like painting, stenciling, lino-cutting etc but I decided to incorporate some photography into my theme. Then it occured to me that I should do some advertising for my clothing brand ‘Ruse’ and this was the perfect opportunity for me to do some!!!! But I didnt want to do just some ‘average’ photography, i also wanted to do something that I have never done before and something that would be a challenge to me, then I found ‘Light Painting’ and I thought, this is absolutely fantastic stuff, it could look really cool on some advertising pieces and then it sprung the images in my head. I wanted to do a little bit of research into this so I looked around on deviantART and on behance and I have found some truly inspirational pieces. I have only compiled a short list but there are so so many pictures that have inspired. Here they are!!!!!!

‘Ruse’ New Clothing Line!!!!!!!!

Hey everybody,

I have decided to start a new clothing line with comic, typography and misc. designs for sale. The brand is still in the developmental stages so hang tight but hopefully I will have some designs coming to you soon. Please get the word out about this, hopefully I will be releasing graphics and images of what will be on the tees and hoodies as they come as sort of a teaser of whats to come.

The store will (hopefully, if the printers agree) host a range of tees, hoodies, stickers and whatever comes to my mind.

There will be a cool store as well provided by the awesome BigCartel.com

I have a logo that has been finalised but please note that this is not the only logo that will come out. Other, probably more creative will come out,on differant sites etc. Hope you all like it!!!!!!

UPDATE: ‘Chariot of Fire’ and ‘Cyborg Dreams’

 

Hey people,

It’s been a while since I have updated this but I have been very busy lately with school stuff and working etc.

The 2 pictures above are my latest works. The first picture is entitled ‘Chariot of Fire’. The inspiration to create this picture came about believe it or not by Pokemon. I saw on deviantart a picture of a ‘real life’ pikachu and it gave me the idea that most of the Pokemon are based upon real animals and that is certainly the case with Ponyta which is what I based my picture on. The was an experiment to see how i could manipulate fire to make it look real in the daytime. I think that the picture looks reasonably like a ‘real life’ versionof the Pokemon Ponyta.

The second picture is called ‘Cyborg Dreams’. This picture was more based on some feelings that I have had recently and wanted to visualise them graphically. It represents our desire to reach the top of where or what we want to be but not being able to. If only we had that ‘extendable arm’ to reach our goals and ambitions then we would all acheive what we want. This picture was also an experiment to see if i could make a realistic picture from an un-realistic concept per se. I spent most of the time creating the arm area as well as creating the shadows which i found to be particularly hard. I am quite happy with the end result because I was nearly about to give up on it but I gave it another go and I found my way through the problem resulting in the end picture.

I possibly might be making some more pictures along this line but I’ll have to see how time goes

Hope you like the pictures!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Hope everybody had a fantastic Christmas day and hopefully everybody is looking forward to the New Year!!!!

I should have posted this before Christmas but anyway. The year 2008 has just flown by and I imagine that 2009 will be just as quick. Hopefully in 09 I will be adding new things to the blog like tutorials and downloads for people and hopefully i will be adding more stuff to the store for people to buy (maybe ill get my first sale ). Anyway I feel like 09 will be a good year and I hope that everybody else will be getting that vibe.

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestions on what I should add to this blog or if you have any news or just ANYTHING please let me know.

ALSO, I have new entries into the PSDTUTS.com competition to make a Movie Poster. If you haven’t heard about the contest then please head on over to the site (here is the link to the post: http://psdtuts.com/articles/contests/psdtuts-new-dawn-movie-poster-design-contest/), you dont have a lot of time left so be quick in order to be judged. I have dedicated a lot of time to this and I hope people like my work. I have noticed a great deal of skill and detail in everybodies entries and I am looking forward to seeing the results!!!!

Anyway… MERRY CHRISTMAS and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

New Shirt!!!

Hey people!!!

Today i finally recieved my new t-shirt ‘Quatr – Hover’ and I must say that I am very happy with the result of it. It is just like I wanted and it makes me happy Here is a picture of it:

If you would like to purchase one then it will be available very soon at my store!!

Thanks

Updates!!!

Hey everybody,

Things have been happening rapidly around here… exams have finally finished so I have time now just to chill and let the creative juices flow. Also I now have my first official client: Saditty. Saditty is an online cosmetics store that offer…well.. cosmetics!!! They emailed me and told me that they liked one of my pictures and that they would like it for their business and also to create a new logo for them which is always fun!! If you would like to check out the store then please follow the link: http://www.sadittyboutique.com/

In other news, I have been busy trying to develop my t-shirt range and coming up with new designs which I have done but I am having trouble with the printers… so hopefully there will be some more tees coming soon!!! I have also made a couple new pictures so check em’ here!! If you would like to download then please feel free but if you would like the .tiff file then please email me… To view larger or to DOWNLOAD just click on the picture at the top.

Store

Hey people,

Store is officially set up!!!!! There is only my tee on there at the moment but there will be more to come!! I am selling my T-Shirt for $35 AU which is a pretty good deal I think

Please have a look and purchase the tee if you like it!!!

Cheers

T-Shirt for Sale!!!!

Hello everybody,
I have finally managed to set up my t-shirt for sale If you would like to buy it then head over to ebay on this link and have a look at it:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250314321855.

Hopefully people will take a look at it and want to buy it lol.

This is a pic of the shirt as well!

Update – Picture and T-Shirt!!!

This is my new picture called ‘Geometric Images’. I don’t really know why I called it that I just did. It has been a tough couple of weeks lately, I haven’t been able to gather any inspiration and it has been very frustrating for me. Hopefully I’m back on my game but we’ll have to see If you would like this picture in a wallpaper tell me and Ill consider adjusting it to wallpaper size!

In other news I have FINALLY received my Tee with my design on it. I am very happy with the outcome and I hopefully should have a pic of it by the weekend. This tee will be for sale so if you would like to buy one then please contact me to discuss it further. (Please Note: I am in Australia so please consider that purchasing a tee)

Please check out my Gallery and check back for more updates!!!!

Thanks

Tom Miatke