Jai's Laboratory

I have been working freelance lazily for years. Now that I am out of school, I find that I am taking more projects that I haven’t considered before. Like this one. I was contacted to make a 3D animated logo for a BC company. I took it out of excitement to be able to flex my 3D muscle, and a great opportunity to fill-in my portfolio.

When approached, I was presented with a logo that the client was already pleased with. I couldn’t find anything wrong with it and was actually impressed with it’s design. Let me tell you, having a good starting point speeds up the process immensely. The client wanted to have a logo animation that was simple, elegant, and clean. They didn’t want anything too complicated, or busy as they wanted to underscore the minimal impact their mining technology had on the environment, and the surroundings of the mining sites.

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Ok it’s Friday, it’s been a long-ass week so let me begin by saying, I can play guitar. I took lessons, and while I haven’t retained enough knowledge to fill 16 bars, I can play when there’s a gun to my head, or a beautiful woman in the room in need of some serenading. So, by default I’m not one of those button-mashing, guitar hero cop-outs that brag about completing DragonForce’s “Through the fire and the flames” on expert with a bored look on their faces, and duct tape holding their thumbs against their palms(there is a reason that song is so freakin’ hard). I think the people that really need an applause, are kids like this, and like this (as well as their supportive parents). Those are the kids that deserve a million views on YouTube. Just like the original Fab Four, practicing real instruments gives you the skills to apply to other mediums, other compositions, and the discipline to excel in other areas of your life. But I digress…

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I have been working on getting my 3D skills up to par. Taking an Advanced 3D course has added to my skill set, but with my freakin’ hectic schedule, I haven’t had much time to really explore all the things I want to do with it. I feel like as soon as this final is done, I can fully explore all the techniques I learned.

Well, here is a still frame from the project I am working on.
It’s a 12 second logo animation for The Stickypod Connection & it’s going really well.

More updates as events warrant.

Listening to: Alter Ego – “Fuckingham Palace” (Nerk.. Dirk Leyers Remix)

Here is a new offering from my 3D work. It was a simple 1.5 hour exercise where I took a flat HDRI, and made it in to a 3D space. Nothing too fancy. I just wanted to post it.

In other news, this is now being declared as “International Jai gets shit done week”. I have kinda dropped the ball on my final project & allowed myself to hit a bit of a wall. No big deal, I’ll get over it very soon. My advisor, Wil Arndt, had some fantastic advice which was to get back to my origins on this project, and figure out what is making me passionate about it.

I have a meeting with my Program Director, Sebastien, at noon. Hopefully he can give me some insight as well.

Enjoy your day!

Listening to: “Search Engine Podcast” – Jesse Brown | TVO