Calm down son

Yeah so im going on a real mad one with the posting today but being able to enjoy the rugby world cup highlights and blog at the same time is bliss, really trying to make an effort to post more like i did earlier on in the year, the summer job really was what destroyed the bloging flow but im looking to get back on track.
This ones a brief introduction to a motion graphics module im studying as one of my electives. Its all about producing a mini documantary on a subject of our choice, the first submission of the module was to produce a proposal so this is what i came up with...

http://assignments1.herts.ac.uk:8080/assignmentsV2-war/getAssignmentSubmissionFile?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/70128747/Paterson-Connor-Motion-Graphics-Research-Development-Portfolio

Upgrade

Ok so im going to start posting a general weekly update on where i am with projects and other info related
This weekend the work progress has come to a hault sadly, however its not all bad news, after a few months of saving i have finaly got to the stage where i can afford the upgrade of case and cpu cooler that ive needed so badly due to mad temps of 90c +
So here's the case
http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/crafted_series/phantom

And the cooler, freezing temps here i come!

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2011/04/02/be-quiet-dark-rock-pro-review/1

Bad news

<p>For weeks ive been looking a job to try and survive without living off of my savings from summet work, yet finaly ive had success! Or have i? I got a call on friday asking if i was available for an interview on monday, coinsidently the same day i had arranged to get some footage for a project im working on :/ though ide much rather choose to go and get some shots for my short film i guess i have to prioritise (sad face)

Blog overhaul

Everytime i take a break from blogging the time period seems to grow and grow like some mad thing that grows alot :| due to this mad jumble of words above trying to explain in some way how bad i am at keeping the blog up to date there are Apoligies to be made as always :/ yet there is a time of change upon the blog :) (joy!) due to a new mobile phone that has the capability of blogging from it will hopefully see me sort my blogging life out. Going to be tweeting alot more too so check it out.. Twitr__twatter

Step #3

During the spare hour I get an evening to be creative after work I sat down with my friends the pencil, pad, ruler and perspective. (sounds terribly sad to be referring to those things as my friends :/ ) and started to think about how I wanted it to look. I created a few thumbnails and came to this. It is only basic shapes at the moment but it will get developed when I have the time. Looking at it I thought it all looks a bit boring. I want the theme of the image to be tall and overwhelming which was not the effect I was achieving at this point. I watched some videos on composition and came to the decision of lowering the horizon line to give the overlooked feel. 

While having a browse over the net I did a bit of research on coastal and sea defences as I want to create a kind of watch tower/front line defence made out of waste materials, much like everything is in   3rd world slums. I found that almost everything has a purpose and can be used in some way or another to benefit a new owner. Also looking into coastal/sea defences I found images like this that though they are trying to protect the land they also look particularly offensive which is what I want to reproduce.

More...

So I continued with the dodge sketching and came up with this, im looking to create a sort of rugged camp out post or guard tower. I want to create a kind of favela type scene, having the structures made up from anything possible, taking reference from distric 9, brink and maps from call of duty.

step #2

okk so I decided on an idea to work on, I came up with this sort of gate house tower idea that came about from the photo's I took. This is just one real rough sketch at the moment but its something I''ll look to develop over the next few days