Brian Metzger Animation

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Brian — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:26:01 +0000

Just messing about in Illustrator some.

New retro logo design

Brian — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:34:42 +0000

Just put together a little retro style logo tonight.

Stella Artois Bottle – Artist Oil

Brian — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:58:35 +0000

After spending the weekend learning a bit about the Painter interface I finally sat down tonight and tried to paint something with a slightly better understanding of how the Artist Oils work. The bottle got a little bent…that’s what I was going for….right!? Fun stuff.

After 9 hours of animating at work and 4 hours of painting tonight I better get to bed!

Hutchinson to Alexandria Time Lapse

Brian — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:48:51 +0000

A recording of my drive from Hutchinson to Alexandria, averaging about 2000 mph!

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Nate 4Wheelin

Brian — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:34:30 +0000

Nate testing out the goPro cam on the 4wheeler on Christmas Eve.

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Chloe & Butterfly

Brian — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:40:45 +0000

Here’s my first attempt at trying out Painter 12 on my sweet new Asus Eee Slate! Tried out oil painting using a fine camel hair brush, which I probably implemented wrong. I have a ton to learn about digital painting that’s for sure! Figured I’d call it good on this first painting for now so I can try out some other digital materials and styles. Hope you like it Chloe!

A detailed shot of the butterfly just for fun.

Carl Stromberg’s Motion Graphics

Brian — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:03:03 +0000

My buddy Carl decided to switch gears and try to get a job in motion graphics at a company in KC. Only problem was he didn’t have any current materials for his portfolio. He quickly put together three short clips in a week. I was on the phone with him one night, and he was saying how it’s hard to develop materials for fake products…etc ( which I also agree! ). Of course I said hey mayajunky.com could use a new logo animation! Well I went to bed and woke up in the morning with a link in my inbox to this!

Click here to view the embedded video.

You can check his blog out at http://carlstromberg.tumblr.com/

And his youtube channel at…

http://www.youtube.com/user/strombergium

Thanks Carl I thought it turned out pretty cool, especially for the time involved!

Downtown Minneapolis Zoomified

Brian — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:36:22 +0000

Downtown Minneapolis Skyline

Grabbed a nice high resolution shot of Downtown Minneapolis on Easter Sunday from ontop of the C ramp by Target Field. Had to write out half the resolution I had from the stitch because my computer wasn’t liking it, but it’s still about 25000 pixels wide. Anyone looking for a 20ft wide print?

Virtual Tour – Demo House

Brian — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:26 +0000

To navigate the tour click on the image and drag the mouse. Areas you can navigate to will appear as pop-up boxes. When over a labeled box you can release the mouse to go to the area the mouse is hovering over. You can resume control of the virtual camera again by clicking dragging the mouse again, even when over-top a labeled box. As long as you don’t release the mouse over a labeled box you will stay in the current area. The scroll wheel on the mouse allows you to adjust the focal length of the virtual camera, even up to a very wide angle.

Rolling Path

Brian — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:14:22 +0000

Came home after work and decided to challenge myself to a quick moGraph session for a new graphic. Total time was 4 hours ( mostly experimenting ). Used some cloners, some tracers, some sketch & toon, a bit of animation, and of course some compositing in Photoshop.

I dig the Tron style invert of it as well.