My oh my they grow up so fast…my blog is turns 1 today. I first posted on it last year at this time.

Since then I have graduated and been hired. I’ve probably made over 100 commercials that have been on TV all over the country.  At this point last year I knew nothing about Cinema 4D or pretty much all 3D animation in general, and now I can hold my own with it. I look forward to another year of personal and professional growth.

I felt my home page was in need of a bit of a makeover, so I created a new welcome video. I consulted my Xbox for inspiration and decided to create a Guitar Hero style video for my site. After doing tons of interactive research while observing the details and nuances of the game, I did my best to recreate the look and feel of the game with Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Motion, and After Effects. If you’ve never seen or played Guitar Hero (or even more awesomer, Rockband) then I suggest you head down to somewhere like Best Buy and take the floor sample for a spin.

Motion Graphics Hero: Guitar Hero Style Intro from Michael Szabo on Vimeo. 

I’m pleased with the way this came out. It’s good to know that all of my research and hard work payed off.

I’m planning on doing more welcome videos to the site every so often. I’ll either have them play randomly if I can figure out how or I will have a way to cycle between them. 

Well I spent a lot of time during summer making sure I built up my site and getting my reel together. Lately…not so much.

I’ve been working with Cinema 4D trying to get better at 3D animation. I made a promo for Current Using Cinema 4D, specifically mograph, but they are having some technical difficulties posting it on their site. I’ll link it up once it’s up there.

aefreemart posted a link to my paper rip tutorial which I thought was cool, good to see that someone has looked at my web site besides my mom.

I want to make more tutorials, but I have come up with any new techniques or ideas. I’m trying to keep the tutorials to things I work out on my own. And lately I’ve been the ones using the tutorials so I’ve got my own work cut out for me.

The only other thing to share that I thought was cool was this technology Adobe is working on to take what essentially would be 3D photos. It involves special lenses and software that could seperate foreground, background, etc. in an image. Maybe soon in the future you will be able to scratch this off short list of things Photoshop can’t do.