Continuing on, So I’ve been dedicating most of my time to working on the packaging for Old Wwworld Cafe. Unfortunately one of my bad habits is to never really show my hand until the very end. I’ve always felt that doing so would detract from the grand majesty of unveiling the final product, but in reality it ends up biting me in the ass due to me not being able to get a different perspective on things.

In the past, I’ve been trying to work on it. Inevitably, it falls through just because I end up getting too busy to even post an update about the projects. Regardless, it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try.

With that being said–on with the show!

Three samples for the image to be used on the back of the C02 bags.

First stab at the edits.

Second try. A bit more subtle and less grainy.

Think I’ll be using this one

On a side note: I can really feel the effects of age on my computer. Processing all these pictures has been hell. It’s never really happened prior to this year, but I’ve had my Mac freeze multiple times while trying to work in either Illustrator or Photoshop. It’s really just a Russian Roulette of if my computer will freeze at any moment or not. Maybe the solution would be to just get more RAM.

That’s a pretty fantastic greeting card combining my interests in papercrafts and interactivity with your audience. I almost wished I had done something like this for my collateral in college. But whose to say it’s not too late to build something like this now?

Personally, I think that they could have done a few things to make it better. I’m not sure what type of paper is used, but I’d be concerned about the paper getting too wet after a while. Although for all I know, it could be some sort of plastic stock or plastic coating so that concern could be a non-issue. But in case it is actually paper, I would consider using either plastic or using a peat round to grow the plants. Also, on the subject of plants, I’d rather see a variety of plants or maybe even herbs. Maybe I’m a bit too pragmatic, but the idea of having a little herb plant growing in your office seems refreshing to have, especially if your a tea drinker.

Anyways, spring is right around the corner so it may be something to consider…

We’re not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it.

So this has been floating around for a few weeks now, but I’ve finally gotten a chance to sit down and watch it. I’m only sorry I didn’t get a chance to sooner.

Leo interviews Craig Allen and Eric Kallman of Wieden + Kennedy to find out how Old Spice “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” was made.

Although what really stood out to me was the whole behind the scenes deal. Caution: the video is a bit long (19:35).

So for the sake of those people with short attention spans here’s a tl:dr: The filming took about 3 days and they used the 56th take. The actor that plays the man is Isaiah Mustafa who used to play in the NFL. Yes that is his voice. That is a bathroom set built on half a boat out close to the waters. The shirt was rigged to fly onto him. Majority of everything was done in one take with the exception of the overflowing diamonds/emerging Old Spice bottle. That scene was filmed beforehand with an automated hand like contraception that fed the gems through to create the overflowing effect and the rising bottle and then later superimposed for the final effect. As he’s reaching for the oysters, he sits down on a seat which places him on the horse.

Bonus video (was written on set):

Don’t smell like sunsets and baby powder. Smell like jet fighters and punching.

They ended up having to tweak it because “[...] originally he was suppose to run on the horse but that ended up being slightly impossible. Just physics says that it’s not possible.”

[taken via Facebook courtesy of Alex who got it via Jenn] (What a mouthful)

My results:

Took about five-ten minutes. To be honest, I’m surprised that I could differentiate that much considering the hell they went through about two weeks earlier.

But some of you will say “Oh, but Sindy! Poor, poor, naive, ignorant, and disillusioned Sindy. Don’t you know? This is the future of communication! Stop being so old fashioned, you’re going to fall by the wayside if you continue in your foolish ways.” And I say to you–annoying voice that occasionally counter-argues my stances and forces me to spend what would normally be a ten minute grocery shopping trip turned into a hour just because I can’t decide if I’d rather buy chunky or smooth peanut butter–I say you, how can we justify the need clutter news and information with random half-formed sentences? We’re saying less with less, and it’s becoming a rather irritating fad.

People aren’t generating content, they’re just generating noise

That isn’t to say that there isn’t good things that come out of Twittering, or social networking as a whole, but the whole experience seems to be denigrating into shared experience of how much one person can one up another, instead of bridging the gap between cultures and societies.

But this whole note may carry the same weight as spitting in the rain, odds are Twitter will probably lose popularity in about five years, sooner if they go forward with their implementation of charging for their services. Then again, by that time, a whole new social networking site/service will probably pop up.

p.s.

I will admit, there have been some interesting tweets that have been informative &/or entertaining to read…so the whole thing can’t be discredited.

After running that ordeals of final projects, I feel a little burnt out (the allergy’s not helping)

I’ll make a more formal post later (hopefully).

But somethings I want to note before I forget them:

• I got my model back from prototyping
• I’m heading to Taiwan on the 20th
• I need to revamp some things either here or on the main site (design, twitter, last fm, and maybe a youtube feed–additionally adding more ways to contact me)
• Recall that I need to actually submit the site to a search engine
• Revamp portfolio

Only a few days left, folks. D: D: D:

So instead of working on my projects, I end up doing this. In order to show my dispondency on not doing work. By drawing something something that ultimately has nothing to do with my projects. Catch 22, right?

Funny enough, I was working on this one first. Right in the middle of shading I was informed by Izzy that Nihei finally released a new series. \o/ horray~. It’s about time he released something. Maybe I’ll get a chance to track it down later this weekend.

So not entirely perfect, but it’s great for students.

Hopefully, HOPEFULLY, I can get this printed off today and get it back by today. But honestly, it’s looking like a no. I still think I want to make a cast of it, but it’s going to be a stretch if I I get it back on Monday instead of being able to work on it over the weekend.

First render, giant head

Second render, still giant head

Final render (ignore the background image)

As you can see nendroids have pretty freakish proportions. Adding hair should fix that (assuming I built the models correctly).

Now for some technical notes:

I ended up following this tutorial found here. They ended up employing Dirk Bialluch’s connectPolySphere script (which can be found here) which proved to be super helpful and pretty easy to use. Versus using a layered approach, I ended up just caging and hacking apart a low res poly box…which I’m pretty sure I just butchered the jargon, but hopefully got the point across.

It was sorta funny; originally I intended to use zBrush, but due to me never learning it properly, I quickly gave up on it and switched back to Maya…although that was tough too, due to the fact that I haven’t really used Maya for about 3 months.

Anyways, at this point I’m just rambling. So I’ll just conclude and say something almost completely non-sequitur: I have a lot of respect for sculptors and their abilities to make things symmetrical.

Pretty self explanatory, I would say.