Garde Dog Visuals

Beefy Squarms were approached by Cinnamon Collective, and asked to produce some visuals for a night of live music at Wharf Chambers. They had paired us with Leeds band Garde Dog and wanted some video material to be projected on a loop during the set.

We decided to each produce an individual section which would be played in sequence.
Cinnamon's logo for the event was a kind of colourful, glitch arty letter C. I am not really a fan of glitch art or the "VHS" kind of look that lots of people are using recently, but the highly saturated colour scheme seemed to fit in with the band's psych-funk sort of style, so I chose to replicate that style slightly.

Cinnamon Logo

My idea was to find copyright-free or creative commons footage of dogs, preferably scary looking ones, and animate short loops over the top of the clips.
It was quite hard to find exactly the sort of footage I wanted, but through a number of stock libraries and vimeo's creative commons section I managed to find a minutes worth of footage.
The actual animation I did was very basic, mostly just big icons in the centre of the screen with some line boil, or short simple loops. The most complicated part was the walk cycle of the doberman type dog, on a 3/4 angle to the viewer but even that was only 6 frames long.

Lifting tower project - 8 Bit Ideas

Me and Ewan decided to work together on the lifting tower brief. Whilst brainstorming we focused on the specific requirements that Jimmy had mentioned during the briefing.

1. The projection must be in 4:3 ratio and standard definition.
2. The projections will be shown on a dark background, so bright colours must be used.

Right off the bat we decided on an old school video game theme, as it would mean using bright block colours and simple shapes. We decided on four games:

• Tetris
• Space invaders
• Pacman
• Supermario Bros.

Each one will be "christmas-ified" in different ways, for example the Tetris blocks will be designed like wrapped gifts, and Pacman will be white with a hat and carrot nose like a snowman.