Photo by Jacklyn Atlas www.jacklynatlas.com

Really not a fan of getting up that early in the morning, but the first ever edition of Toronto’s Creative Morning was a great success. Speakers for the inaugural talk were Helen Kerr & Nigel Smith of KerrSmith.

Mat Martel and I were on video duty, he also handled the edit because that’s his deal, as editing has a habit of driving me insane. The next CMTO is on deck for Jan 20, check out creativemornings.com for more info.

You can check out the rest of the photos from the talk over on the Creative Mornings Toronto Flickr page.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year!

Pretty Lights Gig poster - Hangout Music Festival

Put together an entry for the Hangout Music Festival gig poster contest over at Creative Allies. Pretty Lights definitely tops my list of new artists I’ve come across in the past year, definitely check him out over at prettylightsmusic.com

The background image is a C4D render of some NASA space-related models available at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/index.html.

Cut together a quick new reel to highlight some of the recent work/projects I’ve completed over the last couple months. Not quite a total refresh, some new & some old.

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I recently completed work on a show package for one of the new primetime shows on the Sun News Network here in Canada. The Daily Brief package was completed in conjunction with WhiteIron.tv in Calgary, AB. I was brought on at the start of the project to provide the design for the overall look of the show package including a show open as well as bumpers, promo templates & various transitions. Here’s a look into some of what went into creating it.

Show Open Samples

Above is the show open as it was delivered, unfortunately this was prior to some last minute talent changes that altered the format of the show slightly.

Promo Template Sample Promo Elements

Logo Bumper, Alternate color

Final Logo

Logo Explorations

Initial Styleframes

Alternate Styleframes

Type Exploration

www.flickr.com/photos/jordanlloyd/collections/

Here are a few samples of the kind of stuff that’s up there so far:

Seamless/Repeating Snow Textures:

Snow & Ice:

Random Tracer Nodes:

Retro Logo Goodness:

Vintage Currency Scans:

I Saw The Devil:

Digital Chaos:

Colour Studies:

Stylized Fireworks:

View the project in detail on Behance.net, or on Flickr

I was watching this great doc on H.P. Lovecraft while working the other day, & got a little derailed from that and ended up making this. I was originally animating some ink blots trying to create a variation on the classic rorschach patterns, but decided to switch gears mid-way through that and start putting together this poster instead.

Because I was working in After Effects on animating the ink spots, I just kept on working from what I had started. So, in the end this poster was created entirely  in After Effects, which might seem a little odd.

This is the documentary I was watching ‘Fear of the Unknown’ @ www.snagfilms.com Well worth it for anyone interested in learning a little more about Lovecraft and his interesting life & work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordanlloyd/sets/72157625666887397/

Tileable Snow Textures on Flickr | Enjoy.

The results of a quick little experiment over the holidays after discovering a little piece of javascript software called ‘vZome’ (vzome.com/​), and perhaps one too many screenings of Tron: Legacy & listening to Daft Punk.

Music: a slightly derezzed version of Clint Mansell – Lose Yourself, from the Black Swan OST

Just a quick little Particular experiment with some out of control smoke trails for this weeks 5 Second Projects over at www.greyscalegorilla.com