Stopmotion

Inspiration (stopmotion) from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

Carlos Lascano said:

It was made editing in Final Cut pro a series of still photos of the actor I take with a Nikon D70s.
I´ve used a lot of hand made paint textures, drops, ink brusehd lines, etc. Also old stone wall textures.
I compose every shot in photoshop splitting footage in layers, drawing and pasting things like in a way of a "collage" or patchwork.
Later, in After Effects I made a 3d composition with them.
Every layer was internally animated indepently and later composed in a 3d environment in wich I put lights and DoF.
The music and sound effects was made with Soundtrack and apple loops.

Seconds' title sequence

Seconds(1996) is the film about life of a man after he took a special surgery and psychoanalysis. He became a new person with a new identity, new home and new life.

Above is the title sequence of the film, it was made by Saul Bass. He did stretching in every part of a man's face and end up with the normal parts. It's probably suitable with the story of the movie. Stretching can be understood as a surgery process, and after that, the man has a new face. Face is the most familiar to recognize a person, therefore, Saul Bass had chosen it but not another piece of human body.

Safe Sex poster

This poster argues into the perception of almost Vietnamese people that is the bad perspective to one who they see putting a condom on pocket or wallet. In the poster, I use the photograph of a boy taking his wallet out of the back pocket but accidentally pulling out the condom following. This may cause some bad thinking about him when people see it, particularly in Vietnam. I use "rashness" here first to warn him to be careful to put a condom in safe and static place although condom itself is not bad; second is to warn him to be careful when using condom during sex. The consequence of using condom incorrectly is like not using condom.

Rich black vs. Plain black

Problem

On a computer monitor, there is only one way to represent black. When there is no light coming from the monitor, the screen is black.

In print there are many different ways to represent black. The simplest is "plain black," or 100% black ink (0C, 0M, 0Y, 100K). However, you can also create a "rich black" by printing other inks along with black. There are many different possible ink combinations - the most common "rich black" contains percentages of all 4 inks: 63C, 52M, 51Y 100K. This particular variant owes it's popularity to Adobe Photoshop - when an RGB file is converted to CMYK, areas that are absolute RGB black (R0, G0, B0) will wind up with this combination, unless certain default settings have been changed. Other possible flavors of "rich black" are "Cool Black" (60C, 0M, 0Y, 100K) and "Warm Black" (0C, 60M, 30C, 100K).

No red, green, or blue (rgb) phosphors are glowing.

The problem with all these blacks is that they all look the same on the computer screen - all of them are represented as R0, G0, B0 - but they will not look the same on paper. A classic beginner's mistake is to take a photoshop image that fades into rich black on all sides, place it in a picture box in the page layout software, and assign the picture box a background of "black" ("black" in page layout software = plain black). This appears to be continuous and uniform on the computer screen. If the layout were to be printed, however, there would be a distinct difference between the areas of rich black and plain black.

Image and background look the same Print black look different

For more and solution, see Rich black vs. Plain black

My card (trial)

Artext

In the information searching process for portrait assignment, I remember some works that maybe related to montage... and typography which I found few months ago. They call it Artext:

Angel, http://www.artext.co.uk/html/angel.html

Fade, http://www.artext.co.uk/html/faded.html

They use words to create the picture of person. However, they actually use software to do that work. It job is to change the color where it needs based on the picture.
Take a better look by clicking onto the pictures.

My Portrait

This is the assignment I did for Electronic Image & Designing course. The Portrait.

Portrait is not only the face with a background behind it. Portrait represents your characteristic, your wants, your habits or even your another side, etc.

In my work, I decided to use my portrait to show what I often try to hide in the real world, a not short period of my life...