Portfolio Site

I am great dot com

Live Books Video — Collaborative Project

Quite happy with this for a couple of hours work this afternoon, I spent more time finding the track then animating it but it was worth it.

Can't get the bastard tune out of my head now!

Time Project

A video about the drudgery of monotonous factory work.

I find the idea of spending 50 years in the same job kind of soul destroying.

TCM — More Fucking Posters

If I Knew Then Posters

My advice for the wee level 4 students.

TCM — The Bad and the Beautiful

Below are some mock ups of another set of posters for the TCM project.

Sometimes I wish I could be arsed to spend the time it takes to draw something reasonably well. I put off pursuing this idea early own because I know my drawing is shite and I couldn't think another way of getting it down.

With some simplification and more refined technique I think I can get these to work.

TCM Poster — Superman

TCM Poster — Spartacus

TCM Poster — The Bad and the Beautiful

Banzai Kid — Finished

This is the finished cover for The Banzai Kid's album “Meh”.

We wanted to keep the whole thing lo-fi as it is in keeping with the ethos of the album — rough cut and acoustic.

I had wanted to get the whole thing redrawn in a more stylised comic book fashion but lacking time and talent settled with this.

Three Little — Bastard — Words

The first project of my final year was to analyse and examine words in minute detail in order that we can best represent the word graphically.

Choosing one word for it's history, one for it's sound, and one for it's visual appearance — Cliché, Perpetual and Phlegm respectively.

Dyslexia

This was my back up plan for the Motion Graphics module, in case the Se7en titles went shit.

The idea was was that someone had thrown their pen in frustration and it would smash into the wall.

At the time I did not know or have time to learn how to use particle systems and was unable to smash the pen.

Dyslexia Ad — Mock Up from Sean Cooper on Vimeo.

I spent the last two days trying to figure it out and came up with this.

Dyslexia Ad from Sean Cooper on Vimeo.

Typeface Latest

I have invested more time in my type design this week, and it is becoming a lot cleaner and more balanced. Download here

Banzai Kid Part 3

I had an idea based on some of the lyrics and themes of some songs (well what would it be based on?).

Like lots of songs these are mostly about extremes of emotions love, anger, worries blah blah. I wanted to play on the anger in some of the songs mainly because this is a side to The Banzai Kid you'll only really come across in his songs.

He is a mostly a calm and quiet person but it seems he uses songs to vent some of his pent up anger. “I tried to give you a knife in the back” are some of the lyrics from “Appointed Part 2”.

What I want to show is “the beast” overtaking and overpowering The Banzai Kid.

I thought I could have The Banzai Kid stalking something/someone (unseen) with a knife whist he in turn is being stalked by his own shadow (“the beast”)

This refers not only to anger but all held back emotions that build up, envelop and consume. Much of the album seems to be about this sort of thing.

This is a mock up of what I mean. I will work on making the shadow more imposing.

The Banzai Kid Part 2

I still don't know what to do for the album cover, but a concept for the identity of The Banzai Kid is beginning to form.

A lot of the songs are about sides of him that you may never see, hurt feelings or repressed anger, one of the reasons he uses werewolves as a metaphor "for the violence inherent in human nature" as he put it.

So an obvious way to show this is crisp clean colours that could sell soap powder torn away to reveal sickly zombie greens, deep blood red. The colours tie in with the Sci-fi/Fantasy elements in some of the tracks.

The Banzai Kid

Getting back into design is tough, it is difficult to remember where to start. So it's a good thing that a friend of mine has asked me to design an album cover for him before going back to uni and having a shit fit because I'd forgotten everything.

Anyway he is The Banzai Kid, and I don't know quite what to do yet.

The album isn't about much in particular, Relationships, Alcohol, Death, Corpses and Werewolves.

So I started by looking at 1940s horror movie posters, The Wolfman, The Fury of the Wolfman and the like and because Banzai is Japanese, Godzilla.

So …

The Banzai Kid said it reminded him of 1940s pulp fiction which is not so far from what I was aiming for.

It's a start at least.

Typeface Design Version 1.010

I haven't being doing a lot over the summer and so inevitably a certain amount of boredom set in.
I'd been wanted to do something designery but found — with no amount of looking — nothing to sink my teeth into.
Then, the other day I remembered that I had fontlab studio 5 and had wanted to learn how to use it, so i have spent three straight days designing a typeface from scratch.
I started drawing a few ideas on paper until I eventually choose a lowercase e and a I liked, then drew them up in fontlab an then designed the rest from there.
This is a fully a working opentype font send me an email if you want a copy. (though I still have to set up the kerning pairs, tweak the metrics, adjust stroke thickness, change some characters and loads of other shit, then make the bold and italic versions!).

Word of Mouth — Negotiated Project

The first draft of my ident for the Word of Mouth project.

Quite a contrast from Visual Development.

Word of Mouth from Sean Cooper on Vimeo.

fear and trembling

This is the final video for Visual Development.

fear and trembling — variant from Sean Cooper on Vimeo.

Sequential Narrative Update

Here's is the most recent Three Blind Mice sequential narrative.
It doesn't seem like I've changed a lot but this is the 35th version!