It looks like it has meaning and quality till you look closer.
Dinosaurs, Science, and Design
Illustration, Design, and Photography
Playing with Fire
If you haven’t played with the flame renderer in Adobe Photoshop it’s a funny tool that can get you some cool results quickly. Here’s about 10 minutes of playing around with the letters ASDFGH.
Adding New Things
One of my favorite activities is to go back and see what I can add to old photos. Sometimes to try to make them work better, others just for the sake of the action of adding something. This definitely falls into the later category.
I also spend a lot of time toying around an experimenting with ideas. 99% of These never get finished and remain hidden little bits of practice. They’re one of my favorite things though. It’s a good mental reset to space out and see what your hands can make. 
Real Babar’s Piano Recital
Babar doesn’t need to play the piano, he’s already the king!
You can watch it with sounds around here!
The best part of Valentines Day
The best part of Valentines Day is after Valentines Day I can finally buy Cadbury Eggs. Valentines Day candy is okay as well I guess, but really it’s just fun to look at because of the bright colors. That being said, let’s look at some brightly colored Valentines Day candy!
These were all shot with lens extenders on an 18-135mm. Below is the end of the lens without the extenders! Also, all these were shot on the back of my toilet. As always.
Babar’s Piano Recital
The crowd is cheering because Babar is the king, and he’d throw them in the stockades if they didn’t…
Watch this with sound here!
The Saddest Seagull
His name is Filbert
It’s been crazy busy of late, but I managed to squeeze in time to make a quick looping cartoon in the last couple of days!
I mixed sound and music with it as well! To see it with sound just follow this link !
48 Hours
Here’s a short film some friends and I did back at the start of august for the Seattle 48 hour film festival.
Our requirements were as follows:
Genre: Creature Feature
Prop: Flyswatter
Character: Darin/Dana Stumme, Massage Therapist
Dialogue: “No way, Never again.”
All in all this was one of the craziest shoots I’ve ever worked on. In a nutshell, we thought we had a great location, after shooting most of the day there, it became very clear that that was not the case. It turned out that the “unlisted bed and breakfast” was actually one of the compounds for Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment. We ended up scraping the vast majority of the day to just get away from the drunk and very aggressive folk who lived there. That cost us one of the two days we had. All of the interior day scenes were shot between 11pm and 4am. All in all, it was definitely a bonding experience.
The Graphic Moving Portfolio of Joseph Towey 2014
I’m not usually one for posting videos, but hot damn this was a lot of work. This is a general sampling from jobs I’ve done in the last year. Watching this for me is just a rush of memories.
While for the most part I only selected things that could fit in smoothly, there is one spot where the music stops and there’s a little segment of two icons talking. Though it breaks the flow, I really wanted to include that because that job took just over 250 hours on its own. All the speaking bits were animated with facial motion tracking and tons of key frames. For doing the motion tracking, I ended up over at my parents house at 10pm lip syncing the commercial several times in front of a camera. Even just getting that job, I had found a neat AE expression for attaching puppet pins to nulls about half an hour before I got word of it. When my intermediary client came through the door, and asked if I could make animated talking icons, I had just thing I wanted to try! That job also had about a million rounds of changes and change backs.
For me, most of the brief clips in that video have stories, ideas, trials, and solutions attached to them. Some funny, some arduous, some otherwise. This is the first time that I’ve cut together an actual reel, (I’ve made just graphic demos for clients in the past) and it’s certainly strange to see a year summed up into just over three minutes.
The Campthing
Here are a few more from camping. (Click the images to see them larger) This was right as we were leaving. I got my camera set up right as we were about to leave to do a quick time-lapse of our camping spot. About three pictures into that, this thing appeared. I stopped the water from moving to focus the attention on the mirrored thing.
Soon as a few of the wide shots snapped the glow above the object disappeared. A couple of minutes after it disappeared I got closer to get a few close-up shots. This is about as close to a selfie I’ll ever take. You can see my shadow in the reflection of the mirrored thing.
In this one I was managed to catch the final camp chair and bags to be put away and the other two campers. After this, last time-lapse we took one of the last loads of stuff up to the car. By the time we got back from the car, the object was gone.
More experiments with reflections, AE, and C4d.
