Inspiring the Inspirer

Animated sequence

2010-10-25T07:29:00.002+11:00

Animatic with Narration

2010-10-25T07:06:00.002+11:00

Mind's Eye Color Script - Minor Project

2010-05-19T21:15:00.005+10:00

This is the Color Script for my minor project. Working on the animatic now. Will put up the animatic by tomorrow as other essential information on my minor project.

Razeef Mohd

Susan Earl - Hunters & Gatherers AIM Studio 13 May 2010

2010-05-12T23:32:00.004+10:00

The DVD cover for

"Valmay the Visitor from Beep Beep Beep Bleetlebox 967"

Images from some of the scene in
"Valmay the Visitor from Beep Beep Beep Bleetlebox 967"

Each week, student will be required to present an introduction to the Guest Speaker of Hunters and Gatherers. Guest for Week 10 is Susan Earl, an artist in residence in the AIM Studio. Me and Danish will be doing the introduction of Susan. So here is the introduction piece that we have prepared to introduce Susan during the Talk

Today we would like to welcome Susan Earl as the guest speaker for Hunters and Gatherers. Everyone is familiar with Susan as she is always together with us in studio as she is the artist in residence, giving us a hand and advises whenever we need it. So to start of with, here is a brief biography or introduction for Susan.

Starting life as a New Zealander, Susan moved to Australia in 1997 to study animation. Since then she has stayed here. For the past 12 years, she has worked as a multimedia designer, writer and animator - in the corporate sector and also in her own freelance business – studioswirl.com.au.

Susan has written and made animated and live action films, she illustrates and draws cartoons and at secret moments you can find her singing in a choir.

Susan was a graduate of AIM from 1996. She had a huge success in 1997 when her student film won an award at the Australian Effects and Animation Festival. It was called “Noelene Giblet’s Big Snatch. Apart from that, her student film won other awards such as the Mickey Duck Award and also was nominated in various animation festivals around Australia and New Zealand.

Since then, Susan has produced few films such as “It’s Like That,” which was shown in various animation festivals around Australia, New Zealand, Europe as well to the Sundance Film Festival in the United States of America.

Susan has also held various roles in various productions in producing animation such as co-writer, writer, Script Editor, animator, Producer and many more.

Currently, Susan is working on a animated short film called “Valmay the Visitor from Beep Beep Beep Bleetlebox 967.” She is the writer, animator as well as the director for this film. This animated short film received the funding from Screen Australia.

So today, Susan will share and talk to us more about her current animated short film that she is working on. Without further a due, we present Susan Earl.

Razeef Mohd.

Launching of "Substitute of Revolution"

2010-05-12T00:06:00.005+10:00

Currently, me and my classmates are working on a group project called "Substitute for Revolution."

It's an online interactive psychological drama about a depressed man who wants to escape the real world. The character is called Patrick Winter.

The user is put into the position of the character, a depressed and psychologically disturbed man living in a run down inner-city apartment. As the user explores his apartment, they discover gateway objects, which lead to experiencing altered states of mind. When awaking back in the real world, the user and character find that parts of his altered state have manifested in the real world apartment.

Make some time and come over for our launch on 17th of May, at the VR Centre at Building 91, Victoria Street, Melbourne.

Join the Facebook group for further updates on the exhibition!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115073345194995

Razeef Mohd.

Married Life - Disney Pixar "UP"

2010-05-04T21:54:00.002+10:00

Up is an animated film, which revolves around the main character, Carl Fredricksen, (protagonist) who has a childhood dream to go on an adventure to Paradise Falls in South America with his wife, Ellie, since they both of them were kid. They were so captivated by an explorer Charles Muntz, who was their idol. They wanted to follow his footstep. After Carl’s wife died, he started to lead a lonely life and things happen. Here is where he met a boy who would become his sidekick; in exploring the place he has longing to go since he was small.

This is my favorite scene in this animated film as through out the 4 minutes, the storytelling is in the form of audio and visual only. The way it was structured is so strong that i could feel the moment and also emotion. Really love this part.

Razeef Mohd.

Are You Gonna Be My Girl

2010-05-04T21:20:00.005+10:00

I found this on facebook. Posted by my fried. Simple and nice usage of text within space. This was done using After Effect 7. I got no idea who did this but it's pretty good.

This reminds me to the opening title sequence of the film "Cathc Me If You Can." Credits to the person who did this.

Razeef Mohd.

The Opening Cinematic of The Beatles Rock Band

2010-05-04T20:46:00.005+10:00

This is the opening Cinematic for The Beatles Rock Band Game. Love this animation and also the concept of creating it. The design of it as well. I watch the making of it and one interesting fact about this animation is its has a lot of hidden message through out the whole animation and all of it relates to how the beatles was created. Its like another form of storytelling to the journey of it.

One of the part is at the very beginning when the camera tilts down from the city view and it passes though a brick wall. On the brick wall, there were many posters and actually the information in it was all about the beatles on how they started on the band. Interesting as the production was so detail even though the camera tilts down very fast and could not read what is written on the posters. They very detail in every aspect. A good example to learn from.

Razeef Mohd.

Fallen Art by Tomas Baginski

2010-05-04T00:48:00.011+10:00

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-procliamed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant AL from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

Fallen Art (Polish Sztuka Spadania) is the name of a 6 minute, animated short film written and directed by Tomas Baginski. It features Romanian band Fanfare Ciocarlia's song "Afalt Tango." The film was produced and created by Platige Image, a VFX company. In 2006, it received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.

Mind's Eye Character Design- "Leoril" - Minor Project

2010-05-04T00:14:00.007+10:00

Front View of Leoril

Side View of Leoril

Shoes

Slack

Suit

Briefcase

Early Sketches of Leoril

Final Sketches of Leoril

Basically, this is "Leoril" the character i develop for Mind's Eye. He is workaholic and because of this, he would develop different state of mind, where his mind will play around with his imagination as how i have portrayed in the storyboard as well.

Here are some short and simple description of Leoril.

- Age around 25 - 35.

- Works as a stock broker.

- Always walks with his briefcase. he won't leave his briefcase.

- Looks depressed because of his job.

- Has beard as well as he wears spectacle when he is at work.

- Like to wear suit and his necktie is like hanging around his neck.

Will update on the 3d model of Leoril's character as well as other assets for Mind's eyes.

Razeef Mohd.

Mind's Eye Storyboard - Minor Project

2010-05-03T23:53:00.008+10:00

Page 1

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This is the latest storyboard i have for my minor project but there will be slight changes on page 3 and 4. Will change it soon as possible and then will do the color script of it and try to do as well animatic for it. I will be doing my minor full in 3d using Maya and also After Effect as well as slight 2d hand drawn animation for a small part in the park. Will update on the color script in 1 or 2 days more as well as putting up assets for it and also the animatic.

Razeef Mohd.

Abstract Art

2010-05-02T16:42:00.003+10:00

This was my first assignment that i submitted for concept development. Was given the choice to draw or even take photographs> i took the option of taking photographs and this techniques was taught to me by my lecturer, Dr. Chris Barker and i admit i didn't do much research in completing this assignment as my concern at that time was deadline so managed to get this done in time.

What i did was took some photographs and used the technique of frame blending in after effect. This was not good at all but i would love to try this again and giving some thoughts of making it better in terms of the flow and content of it. I think it was a good start of knowing how to utilize this effect.

Would love to try more in future using this technique but different approach.

Razeef Mohd.

Mind's Eye - Minor Project

2010-05-01T02:00:00.002+10:00

Currently working on my minor project. It's a 3d animation with 2d animation as well in it. Looking for this piece to go for a bout 1 minute to 1 minute 3o second.

The title of this short animation is "MIND'S EYE," where its like a mixture of reality, illusion of one'1 mind as well as the mind is playing the trick. Its all illusion within the mind.

Completed the script for it as well as the storyboard and i'm working on completing the color script. As soon as i have completed the color script, will post it up here.

Razeef Mohd.

Time + Perspective

2010-05-01T01:44:00.003+10:00

This is of of my latest assignment handed in for concept development, where the approach i took was on creating a generative stuff. Basically, the theme for this assignment was time + perspective and was supposed to create animation loops.

Basically, got the idea for creating this loop when i was walking around in melbourne, particularly in a music store, where i saw this old record player playing this record. As i was looking at then record being played and it went in spiral, there were shape and form on the record and as it turn, it created a loop.

What i did next was going into after effect and creating all of this sphere shape and animating it to move in such a way that its like a devise to hypnotized. I only realized about this when it was completed. After that, it was editing in final cut pro with adding some sound to it.

The catch for the sound is i used a song by Elvis Presley, a song which portray the king during his golden age as related to the records. So in a way, it reflects the design and also audio for it. What i did next was to make the loop synchronized with the song as when it is complete, the loop looks like its following the song.

Razeef Mohd.

Form + Image

2010-04-26T21:02:00.004+10:00

2nd version

1st version

This was a work i submitted for concept development, where the theme was Form + Image. My initial idea was to do some stuff using flash with scripting but that didn't work out, so instead i went on doing and created images by using words.

Rather than using shapes to create and image, i had an idea to use words to form an image, i.e kaleidoscope image. So here i managed to do that.

I used some scripting in after effect to create 3d text layer and it was position randomly within the space. Then i used some effects within final cut pro to create the kaleidoscope effect. I submitted the first 1 and after that i did edit it again and came out with the 2nd version of it.

Razeef Mohd.

"EL BUSCADOR" - The Seeker

2010-04-26T20:52:00.004+10:00

This poster if for my 3D virtual environment aka the room aka the seeker. This poster is for the room assignment for collaborative studio practice. Will upload more pictures on the room as well as the link to the site where the environment could be explored.

This is done with Unity 3D as well as some modeling done in Maya.

Razeef Mohd.

Meet Meline

2010-04-08T00:14:00.005+10:00

Meet Meline

The Making of meet Meline

“Meline is a little girl who spends most of her time in her grand-parents barn, drawing. One day, a scared furry little creature gets lost in the barn. All excited about this mysterious creature, Meline will now try as hard as she can to approach it and discover it.”

"Meet Meline" tells the story of a little girl named Meline, that will be faced with an extraordinary event. A strange little creature will appear on her life. So does Meline know that little creature, is it real, what will happen when she meets this mysterious creature for the first time? The audience follows Meline as she goes through many emotions from curiosity to excitement, and also fear or even passion." Source: meetmeline.com

Virginie Goyons & Sebastiien Laban have been working on this animation for about two years now and the best part of it is, the only two of them who are doing this and also they kept track on the production process of the whole film on a production blog and the blog could be viewed at meetmeline.com.

One thing i like about this animation is the realism in it as well as the color. The timing was perfect as well.

Razeef Mohd.

Short Animation - ALARM

2010-04-07T23:52:00.002+10:00

Agents + Behavior: Suicide (Character Animation)

2010-04-07T18:51:00.006+10:00

This is my first 3d character animation. First time animating a character using Maya.

At first, it was kind of hard getting to control all the points with different tools for different part of the body. That was during the first day but as i went on with the help of Yang And Jin, understanding the concept and method on how to animate, things got quite fun even though what i did was not good movement but i will try more on my own animating character as it was fun.

I use Maya for animating and use final cut pro to edit it. Overall it was a new experience and i would surely want to try to animate more so that i get use to it and i would love to do 3d animation for my major project next semester.

Thank you as well to Deepak Mistry for the model and rig that i downloaded from creativecrash.com

I would appreciate any comment given on the animation as its a learning process for me.

Razeef Mohd.

Condom will get you more girls... LOL... Cool animation by the way...

2010-04-05T21:34:00.004+10:00

Love without Talking

2010-04-05T21:04:00.003+10:00

Agents + Behavior: Suicide

2010-04-05T16:59:00.007+10:00

Currently animating this character named Anthony, who was created and rigged by Deepak Mistry's, which i found on this website called creativecrash.com.

I am animating a simple action of the character, anthony trying to commit suicide jumping from a building.

This is an assignment on Agents + Behavior for Concept Development.

Razeef Mohd.

Sherlock Holmes Ending Credit Title

2010-04-04T23:51:00.006+10:00

This is the ending credit title for Sherlock Holmes(2009), which was directed by Guy Ritchie, one of my favorite film director.

Would love to try one day doing a title sequence using this technique.

Razeef Mohd.

Razeef's Room - Collaborative Studio Practice

2010-03-30T19:33:00.001+11:00

This is a sample of picture of the room i'm working on now for Collaborative Studio Practice. Basically, this is just the outlook of the whole interior of the room. I will still add in more features into the landscape of the whole island. I will explain more detail on the concept of why i choose my room to be in such a way.

Razeef Mohd.

Syd Mead@RMIT

2010-03-29T22:25:00.000+11:00

On 23 of march, i was lucky enough to get a chance to hear a talk by Syd Mead as well as meeting with him in person. The talk was pretty interesting and learn a lot form the man himself. The two things that i could not forget what Syd said was "If you do this and don't get paid then it's a Hobby" and "Imagination is much more important than knowledge."

The second one was a quote by Albert Einstein actually but these were the things that i remember well from his talk. This guy is brilliant and fantastic. Looking at his work gives me inspiration.

I would also love to thank my lecturer, John Power for helping me out on the ticket for the talk by Syd. Without his help, i would not be there. Thanks a lot John.

Razeef Mohd.

8 Bit Trip

2010-03-20T09:58:00.000+11:00

I stumbled upon this clip of stop motion animation on youtube called 8 bit trip last year while i was looking for some animation on stop motion. Found this piece as an interesting piece and wanna share it.

These guys took almost 1500 hours of moving lego bricks and taking photos of them. Can you believe it. A brilliant work and credit to both of these guys in putting the efforts and hours in completing this.

Razeef Mohd.

Goodbye Grandma

2010-03-19T09:01:00.000+11:00

This morning about 3 a.m, i lost someone very dear in my life. My Grandmother.

"Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajeoon."

To Allah we belong and to him is our return. May Allah give me patience, forgive my grandmother and give her a best place in "Jannat ul Firdous. Amin.

I feel sad as i could not be there by her side performing the final rituals before burial.

Many fond memories with grandma as she used to take care of me when i was 6 years old. She would wake me up early in the morning and give me some money to buy nasi lemak so that i could take it to kindy. My grandma was big in size, so at that time i use to treat her stomach as water bed. I will run and jump on her and lie down on her stomach, but she will never scold me.

The last day i met her was few days before i came to melbourne. It was saturday, 20 February 2010 and i kissed her as usual before i leave. Those are the last picture of memory that i could capture in my head.

Love you Grandma.

Razeef Mohd.

Inspiring the Inspirer

2010-03-18T21:46:00.001+11:00

"As i was walking towards him, I said no... Oh no... killing is not going to help me... Revenge is not good... It's going to keep on war for this generation and the next generation...

Let me let him live and then I will be free...

I am free... and everyone is free"

Patrick Chamusso, 2006

This was the words uttered by Patrick Chamusso in 2006 after a motion film was made based on his life story. A story that inspired me now for who i am and what will i be in future.

I start with these quotes from what he said. The quotes were strong enough and made me to think.

Why i chose to start my blog and my first posting on Mr Patrick is because of what i learned in class during the first week. The theme was Play + Inspiration and also not forgetting week 2 theme which is Community + Practice. So this is why i started the blog with individuals who inspire me and my life. In coming post i will include more individual who inspires me.

Why? Because whatever i do in my creative work, these are the elements around me, which pops out in my head and will influence the direction of how i transmit messages into creativity using the different medium around me.

Let me tell detail about myself a bit. I'm Razeef Mohd. From Malaysia but currently i'm in Melbourne doing my postgraduate studies. I'm doing my master in creative media (animation and interactive media) at RMIT University.

Thats a brief information about me and i would love to conclude this first post with the picture of Mr Patrick Chamusso and also a clip of the film, Catch a Fire the ending to share with all of you and i managed to get this clip from youtube, not forgetting as well the production team of this film. a great film...

Razeef Mohd.