Trent's Professional Blog

Almost finished with lenicam.com

2010-01-14T18:41:00.001-08:00

The lenicam.com weddings section is almost finished:

wordle.net

2010-01-14T18:34:00.001-08:00

Heard of a great site called wordl e.net. It takes text & rss feeds and organizes it into an interesting typography display. Andrew Kramer mentions it in his latest tutorial on videocopilot.net. Here's what it did with my blog:

Lenicam Wedding Landing Page

2009-10-31T18:30:00.000-07:00

Design for Lenicam Productions' Wedding Landing Page:

Click > Latest version (as of 11/01/09)

Click > 1st version

Click > 2nd version

Flash & HTML
Design by Trent
Concept by Lenicam Productions

Business cards are in!

2009-10-13T05:50:00.000-07:00

Rotoscope Test

2009-10-09T01:49:00.001-07:00

I saw a trailer for "The Princess and the Frog", the latest project from Disney. Finally, a new hand drawn animated feature from Disney! After watching the animation features they had on the website (follow this link, go to the "video" tab, and watch the animation features. Very exciting!), it inspired me to try a little hand drawn animation myself. It's very primitive, but isn't that how they all start out?

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that many people use to capture life-like animation where you trace live action footage. Most Disney films do this. They record the actors, sometimes the actual actors who play the voices, acting out the scene in a studio. They then use that footage to trace the movement, angles, and to get the timing down. Sometimes they use the same footage or previously animated footage to rotoscope for multiple movies. Check this out --> example.

A new technique was developed by a guy named Bob Sabiston who created a program that allowed an animator to rotoscope every couple of frames and the computer would interpolate between the rest of them. (I actually got to meet him at A&M a couple of years ago) You have probably seen those Charles Schwabb commercials or the movie Scanner Darkly that used this technique.

Anyway, in light of the return of one of the most beautiful story telling techniques, I decided to try my hand at it to get away from what I've been doing to stir my creativity. My animation has a frame rate of 12 frames per second. Most animated feature films have a frame rate of 24 frames per second. That's a lot of frames! I started at frame zero today and finished 170 hand drawn frames later. Whew!

Watch "Rotoscope Test":

Blog Interface Update

2009-10-07T21:39:00.000-07:00

My blog's interface is now the same as the rest of my site in an effort to preserve the continuity throughout my online portfolio:

Demo Reel Finished!

2009-09-29T19:07:00.000-07:00

Demo Reel is now available for viewing! Visit the following link:

www.trentpruett.com/portfolio/video/demo_reel

and feel free to provide critiques.

COMING SOON! - 2009 DEMO REEL

2009-09-23T22:33:00.000-07:00

Business Card Design

2009-09-17T16:29:00.000-07:00

Finished Checkpoint Intro

2009-09-03T19:55:00.001-07:00

Here's the final Checkpoint intro:

Follow this link to view the video in quicktime on my website:
http://www.trentpruett.com/portfolio/video/checkpoint/index.html

Checkpoint Graphics

2009-08-27T21:11:00.000-07:00

I wanted to create a few graphics to help create transitions between clips in the Checkpoint montage. Here are a few of them. They are inspired by the graphical shield icons that appear after different types of kills in Halo 3.

Checkpoint Clothing

2009-08-27T21:06:00.001-07:00

Hayden Wall at Checkpoint Clothing asked me to create an intro montage for his website at www.checkpointclothing.com. Check out his site for some great gamers apparel and designs. I started with a few simple ideas as a rough draft, however Hayden gave me a few more ideas to kick around to make it a little better. The first draft can be viewed by clicking here.

(The above logo was design by someone else. I will be sure to give him/her credit when I find out)

TP Productions Logo

2009-08-27T21:04:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to establish the TP Productions (TPP) name and my logo. The name and the logo are pending the feedback I get from you. So please, I need your feedback. Here's the logo:

I wanted to incorporate the TP initials in a simple way. I have been informed it looks like a Japanese style, which is not exactly what I was going for, but I am not opposed to the look.

Check out a logo animation I created here.

1st Post - Howdy World!

2009-08-27T20:43:00.000-07:00

Thank you for visiting the blog for
TP Productions!

The blog will keep you up to date with my latest work and will also help me hold myself accountable for documenting and reviewing my progress to be sure I'm staying true to the project's original intent and purpose.

I welcome constructive critiques and comments, so please feel free to comment directly to the blog, or send me an e-mail at trent@trentpruett.com. Also visit my professional portfolio atwww.trentpruett.com.

Thanks and I look forward to bringing you my latest!

-Trent