Heres a few sneaky snaps of my first concept video in process, this will be a stop motion shot video to sell my idea; The Augmented Creative Portfolio.

I have another concept video animation under wraps which is currently being rotoscoped. Images will follow soon…

I’ve chosen this method to create this first concept for the fact that it looks really arty and creative and is fairly easy to add effects and random pop ups.

So

Watch this space!

Well…where to start, its been 3 weeks now and I’m thoroughly enjoying my position as product marketing officer….not really sure what the title means but it sounds  very swish , what my position involves really is being there for anything that needs designing and where I can utilizse my skills in the adobe software suite (photoshop, illustrator, flash). This ranges from designing magazine spreads, posters to flash movie for Panasonic products, mainly telecommunication systems.

My last brief involved designing new internet banners for their eco scrappage scheme website, the fact that Panasonic has used my designs in their websites, brochures, posters etc gives me a real high, its satisfying seeing your work printed in gloss

More to come sooon….

YES! all my hard work applying for interships and work placements has finally prevailed and I’m now working as a ‘Product Marketing Officer’ (thats gotta sound good on a business card) for Panasonic Communications. With this and Uni work I’m going to be incredibusy, but will get the chance now and then to update a little about my final major project which I’m about 50% of the way completing thank buck

Another amazing concept for an augmented reality magazine/book. I can see the very outcome of my final idea.

Cheers to Adam Jones for finding this beauty!

Armed with either an iPhone or Android, hundreds of Amsterdam residents are expected to converge on Dam Square tomorrow at 2pm for the first ever augmented reality flashmob. Darth Vader, Superman and various other characters will be making super-special appearances.

It sounds like a lot of fun for anyone who can get over to Amsterdam, with QR codes needed to be downloaded to phones for whichever 3D model takes their fancy from the site—or, they can create their own thanks to the AndAR app available for Android phones. An app such as Layar will be needed to activate the augmented reality view, and then with the AR tags on the ground Darth Vader could soon be standing next to the lucky flashmobber.  ‘Gizmodo’

Check out the Website Here http://www.sndrv.nl/ARflashmob/

Really love this magazine concept by esquire; Augmented Reality in Magazines, a concept very similar to what I’m trying to achieve in my next project.

Heres a few early drawings I created a while ago as a concept for my final idea; An Augmented Creative Portfolio.

This will be a sketchbook type CV containing glyphs which will create the Augmented reality on camera. Each page will contain a different project and a unique glyph either previewing video, imagery or an explanation of the idea in hologram form.

The portfolio will contain a link to a website which will contain embedded software to be able to preview the augmented reality in the book. A slight downfall will be that to be able to see this, the viewers going to need a webcamera although there has been advancements in using mobile device cameras.

Heres just a sketch of what the user could be seeing when using the portfolio.

Wow! Probably the best augmented business card I’ve found on the internet so far, I’m loving the star wars type hologram rather than an extreme close-up, plus the background imagery works really well. I’m looking to implement an introduction similar to this in my augmented creative portfolio. An idea I thought about was to have a little introduction about each project which would pop up on the turn of each page containing glyphs. Looks like I’ll have to see about making or even buying my own green screen for this project. I’ve come up with a few sketch ideas explaining the idea a lot more for those a bit confuzzled about what I’m doing, this will be posted very shortly….

Woah! New Module! with only 8 weeks of term left, along with concept and the final year show…going to be a tuffy to squeeze in. Our lecture this morning covered Wearable technology, an area I’ve focused on for two of my 1st year projects, Beat Shoes and the Motion Instrumented Gloves.
The presentation by Stuart was really insightful, helped us differentiate the aspects of wearable technology defining them between an art and design perspective. I’ve included one of the videos Stuart in the prezentation, the Peristaltic Skin Machine by Lucy Mcrae. This is really going to influence the outcome video for my end of year show project. I’m loving the way the film is shot and how well the music flows….its been kept short and simple but extremely effective, it sort of teases you and leaves you wanting to find out more….our next lecture for this module is next tuesday, will be sure to keep updated on this!

More Lucy McRae Here….Super Funky Wearable Techy Fashion!