Cinnamon87

the following will be a rant of some sorts. so I've just spent the morning researching a project for uni and after reading through this 'creative industries report' had it confirmed that the common belief is that the multimedia/audio visual/games/web sector is the one with the biggest potential for growth. And I have just dedicated the last three and half years of my life to a course that is only just realising this and is struggling to catch up. My course barely focused on this at all, yes it offered a few animation/multimedia/web courses but they were basic intro if that. Plus - I just don't like technology that much. Sure I'll use it, bu

The reason the opening titles for True Blood and Dexter are so awesome. I've been struggling recently with how (in design) do you go about about representing something without choosing the obvious and done-to-death option yet not go so far out of orbit that your piece (logo etc) no longer has any relevance whatsoever to the thing to be represented. It's a bloody tricky balance to find. (Especially when you are doing the exact same projects that last decades third years have done and all potential employers have already seen ten thousand times before *coughunigetnewprojectscough*) Anyway - True Blood and Dexter. The reason their titles are

Things I learned during days three through six.... 1. Clipping masks come in very handy - apple 7! 2. Trying to put a layer of the same text in bold over a layer of said text in light will CHANGE THE LETTERSPACING and NOT LINE UP. 3. Channging the letter spacing will not work. 4. Neither will making it regular instead of bold. 5. Creating outlines and moving each tiny individual letter individually is sheer madness and will give you nightmares. 6. Computers that are slower than 85 year old snails on valium do not help the situation. 7. Asking the person who originally created the work how the HELL they did it (nicely) does work. 8. T