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A couple weeks ago I volunteered at the Vidfest, Vancouver International Design FESTival, and was able to attend a workshop given by Joshua Davis. In this seminar one of the things he talked about was a process he had to extract colours from photographs, and I was quite amazed because when you extract colour from nature photography all the colors blend beautifully. And I started doing it getting great results.

Well, a couple weeks after I was looking into the Automator Application and how it can help you do stuff like resizing images and what not, and I started looking for Adobe Automator scripts, see what people have done with this application. After looking for a while I found a post called “AI CS3 + Flickr + In The Mod mashup.” So I started reading it, and It was quite amazing.

What it was, was a flash application that gets images from Flickr depending on what you are looking for, and then you can extract the colours from these images, real-time from Illustrator. All you have to do is run the Script look for images and copy the colour palette to your swatches. It doesn’t get easier than that, so if you are looking for fast good colours in seconds, this is a must have for you.

Here’s a video on how the application works, enjoy

Here’s my Motion Graphics II final project piece, it revolved around the whole blue-screen concept as I talked about a while ago, but I’ve been crazy busy and I just found some time to update the blog.

This movie’s concept revolves around an abstract version of creative thinking, from the overused yet effective gear moving representing thinking, to a quite abstract journey of a guy trying to come out with an idea, and the final idea was the concept of what an idea is.

The major challenge was the time factor, I had my storyboards ready to go but some areas of the movie took much longer than I expected, and after a few sleepless nights I finished something that kinda made sense, if explained, which wasn’t the intention, but by the end of term due to a not well organized self-schedule I ended up trying to make major fixes a couple days before it was due, sound being one of them. I’m quite happy with the output though, and this term I organized myself better in order to give each one of the projects the time they deserve.

Anyway, here’s the movie, enjoy: