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I am Mark Priest, a digital media designer. I have experience in...

markislav — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:57:00 -0400

I am Mark Priest, a digital media designer.

I have experience in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash and After Effects, with knowledge of Autodesk 3D Studio Max and Final Cut Pro.

I have experience in coding HTML, CSS, Javascript and Actionscript 3.

I am inspired by clean typography, infographics and vector art, as well as motion graphics and depth of field manipulation.

My life is driven by music.

Took a drive around the V8 Supercar racetrack at Sydney Olympic...

markislav — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:43:00 -0500

Took a drive around the V8 Supercar racetrack at Sydney Olympic Park today.

Shot some video, got some looks from the traffic control people I drove past 9 or 10 times with a camera mounted to a different part of the car each time.

This is just the teaser for a video I will be finishing soon enough.

Applications: Adobe After Effects.

Equipment: Nikon D90, Samyang 8mm Fisheye, Tamron 17-50mm.

This is my Digital Media Showreel. It is a showcase of some of...

markislav — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:00:00 -0500

This is my Digital Media Showreel. It is a showcase of some of the work that I have done whilst studying Diploma of Digital Media at North Sydney Tafe.

Work showcased includes:

Acts of Random Kindness - Free Roses (Web Series Pilot)
theoverhead.net - Driving to Enmore (Commercial)
theoverhead.net - Speakers (3D Model)
Hardcore Bunny (3D Model)
t.A.T.u. Official Fanclub (Web Design)
theoverhead.net (Web Development)
theoverhead.net - Poster (Branding)
theoverhead.net - Postcard (Branding)
theoverhead.net - Logos (Branding)
theoverhead.net - DVD Packaging (Branding)
Woolworths - Self Serve (Tutorial and Quiz Application)

Music featured: Clap Your Hands - Sia

I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I went for a drive with my...

markislav — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:35:00 -0400

I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I went for a drive with my Nikon D90 and a 50mm lens to have some fun.

For this video, I was just interested in experimenting with focus. I matched the focus of the text with the changing focus of the video to make the text seem more a part of the scene.

Applications: Adobe After Effects CS5.

Equipment: Nikon D90, 50mm f/1.8 lens.

Acts of Random Kindness - Free Roses (by...

markislav — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:24:00 -0400

Acts of Random Kindness - Free Roses (by goodforyourinsides)

Whilst hanging out in Newtown sampling the fine mexican foods and drinks from Guzman y Gomez, we happened upon a young girl handing out free roses.

She stopped us in the middle of the footpath and held out a rose. She didn’t say too much, just gave us this rose with no explanation and left.

We wanted to share the love by passing the rose onto someone else, but found that it’s harder to give away a rose than it is to give people pamphlets.

We saw the girl with the roses across the street and took our opportunity to find out what she was up to.

Upload your own stories and acts of kindness and let us know!

And finally, if you know the girl in the video, or maybe you ARE the girl in the video, could you please message me, we would love to speak to you again! Message on this youtube channel, or on twitter @markislav.

Crew:

Presenter - Leo Antonio.
Camera operation - Mark Priest.
Additional camera operation - Hung Le.
Editing - Mark Priest.
Concept support - Rommel Ladines and Hilda Luong.

Applications: Adobe After Effects CS5.

Equipment: Nikon D90 + Samyang 8mm Fisheye, Canon… + 50mm f/1.4

I shot a short piece of video the other day whilst at lunch with...

markislav — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:10:00 -0400

I shot a short piece of video the other day whilst at lunch with Rommel and Leo at St Leonards Forum.

I wanted to test out compositing elements into a video. I also was playing with image stabilization and seeing how that worked.

This video is far from a finished product. Just a test.

Something I learned from this was shooting video with an 8mm Fisheye lens makes compositing elements into the video extremely awkward. I wonder if I can distort my stock footage to match the roundness of the fisheye video…

Expect bigger and better things from me in the future!

Applications: Adobe After Effects CS5.

Equipment: Nikon D90, Samyang 8mm Fisheye Lens

This week in my 3D Studio Max class, we learned about building...

markislav — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:02:00 -0400

This week in my 3D Studio Max class, we learned about building terrains and also about motion paths.

I made a canyon type terrain and flew a spaceship through it. I attached the spaceship to a path, attached a light to the spaceship, attached a camera to the path slightly slower than the spaceship, and also attached a light to the camera.

I was also experimenting with environmental effects such as fog, as you can see on the floor of the terrain.

Once again, this video isn’t spectacular, but I can’t wait to use these skills for something awesome!

Applications: 3D Studio Max 2011.

For my Instructional Design and eLearning classes earlier this...

markislav — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:49:00 -0400

For my Instructional Design and eLearning classes earlier this year, I developed the Woolworths Self Serve Tutorial and Quiz application.

The application was developed in Adobe Flash with the intention of deployment on Kiosks or large scale Tablets such as the iPad. The tutorial section features several videos which explain each individual step involved in the process of Self Serve use. The quiz asks the user 10 multiple choice questions, reinforcing knowledge from the tutorial.

Upon successful completion of the quiz, the user is offered bonus Qantas Frequent Flyer points and is prompted for their Everyday Rewards card number.

Applications: Adobe Flash

(This application is in no way endorsed by Woolworths Limited. It was developed as a school project, and no infringement of intellectual property is intended with the use of logos and names)

In this week’s After Effects class we were learning about...

markislav — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:13:00 -0400

In this week’s After Effects class we were learning about layer masks and using track matte.

This is a simple animation that I came up with using my logo as a mask.

Applications: Adobe After Effects CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5.

Romelette / goodforyourinsides joint production. Becoming...

markislav — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:42:00 -0400

Romelette / goodforyourinsides joint production.

Becoming insanely excited about After Effects after viewing videos and behind the scenes videos on youtube by Freddie Wong, Rommel and I got together and had a go at putting together a simple muzzle flare video.

The video quality isn’t the best because our studio setup consisted of an iPhone 3GS and depressing classroom fluorescent light strips.

But nonetheless, I’m quite happy with the way this video turned out, especially for a very very first attempt at VFX in After Effects.

Applications: Adobe After Effects CS5.

This week in our After Effects class we focused on importing...

markislav — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:41:00 -0400

This week in our After Effects class we focused on importing assets from Illustrator and Photoshop, and putting simple animations on them.

I thought I’d make a video title for this blog. Text was made in Illustrator, background was made in Photoshop. Nothing fancy.

Applications: Adobe After Effects CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Today in our first 3D Studio Max lesson of the semester we...

markislav — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:16:00 -0400

Today in our first 3D Studio Max lesson of the semester we learnt about editing motion curves to ease as well as time animations.

The video isn’t much but these skills will come in handy later in the semester.

Applications: Autodesk 3D Studio Max 2011.

Semester Two started today.

markislav — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:54:00 -0400

All my classes are the same times as last semester, so I don’t have to change my roster at work! Woo.

But more importantly, this semester I get to learn how to use Adobe After Effects and Adobe InDesign.

After the first semester of producing some not so creative items, such as my Interactive Tutorial and Quiz about Woolworths Self Serve registers, and creating a simple website using html and some javascript for form validation, I am incredibly excited to be using Adobe After Effects this semester.

I’ve always loved typographical animations like Samuel L. Jackson’s “Say ‘What’ Again” dialogue from Pulp Fiction and the countless infographics used on ABC’s The Hungry Beast, and I can’t wait to come up with something really awesome.

We are also doing a Portfolio class this semester, in which we get to create logos, business cards, brochures, showreels, dvd packaging as a portfolio of our works.

Here is a Bokeh wallpaper I created in 3D Studio Max. Once...

markislav — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:24:00 -0400

Here is a Bokeh wallpaper I created in 3D Studio Max.

Once again, I followed a tutorial, which I found here.

Applications: Autodesk 3D Studio Max.

I created this 3D Model of Japanese Zen Stones, following a...

markislav — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:07:00 -0400

I created this 3D Model of Japanese Zen Stones, following a tutorial I found here.

The file above is 1366x768 because I thought it would make a good wallpaper.

Applications: Autodesk 3D Studio Max.

This is a 3D model I created of my Hardcore Bunny vector...

markislav — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:56:00 -0400

This is a 3D model I created of my Hardcore Bunny vector character.

I thought it would be pretty cool if it was an action figure, so that’s what I did.

Applications: Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk 3D Studio Max.

This was a project that I had to create for my 3D Studio Max...

markislav — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:18:00 -0400

This was a project that I had to create for my 3D Studio Max class. I was asked to create a logo, and a 10-15 second animation featuring the logo.

I continued my logo theme for theoverhead.net, as I was never given the opportunity to create a 3D version of my logo last year, and always thought it would be well suited to a 3D version.

Music featured is Slats Slats Slats (Remastered) by Skrillex.

Applications: Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Lightworks beta.

For my Video class, I was asked to create a movie title...

markislav — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:11:00 -0400

For my Video class, I was asked to create a movie title sequence.

This is what I created. I know that Insert Title Here is a terribly clichéd thing to use as a title, but that wasn’t the point of the exercise.

Applications: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Final Cut Pro.

This is a commercial I filmed and edited in my Video class in...

markislav — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:06:00 -0400

This is a commercial I filmed and edited in my Video class in 2010, for my fictional organisation, theoverhead.net.

The video was filmed on a Nikon D5000, with Samyang 8mm Fisheye Lens and a windscreen camera mount.

I edited the video mainly using Final Cut Pro, and partially, due to technical difficulties, in Windows Movie Maker.

The music featured is Dreams and Reality by Trick Seventeen. The photography featured in the commercial is by Christine Lam.

Applications: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Movie Maker.

These are website layouts I designed for the Official t.A.T.u....

markislav — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:53:00 -0400

These are website layouts I designed for the Official t.A.T.u. Street Team and Fan Club in 2006.

I worked with a small team of international fans, reporting to the official t.A.T.u. management team. Unfortunately due to numerous management issues, the project never came to be.

Application: Adobe Fireworks.