ebrain - justin young

settling in

justin young — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:51:54 +0000

I’ve finally found a place to live here in Brooklyn. It’s in a neighborhood called Bedford-Stuyvesant. It’s just 30 min from work door-to-door, which around here is good.

I’ll take a few pics and update this post in the next day or 2. I’m trying to get back into the swing of things since I’ve not been working on personal projects in such a long while. This blog design has also gotta go. It’s gross. I know I’ve been saying it for a long time, but a new design is coming soon and hopefully some new work as well. I’ve got a few personal projects currently in the works.

In the mean time, feast your eyes upon this:

finally, the computer will do all the work.

justin young — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:45:27 +0000

Incase you’ve been living under a rock like me, or just following election coverage instead of nerd news, here’s a link to Lee Brimelow’s site gotoandlearn.com that will get you up to speed on all the new features in flash CS4.

Watch the video and get ready to shit your pants.

CS4 Feature Tour

If you use flash for a living then you realize what a pain in the ass it is to get anything done in that program. If you happen to have ever used after effects, then you understand how much more painful flash is than just about any other animating too. Hopefully this will speed up the work flow in the office.

found a job

justin young — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:11:26 +0000

I’m happy to say that the folks at Domani Studios have offered me a fulltime job as a Flash Designer and I have accepted.

More to come, as I get settled in here in NYC.

recent exercises

justin young — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:15:54 +0000

Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying new things in Maya and After Effects. These aren’t intended to be finished projects or even “studies” just exercise. So don’t be too critical. Just wanted to show off some new skills.

fur grass

water drop - earth

boost my balloon!

justin young — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:44:41 +0000

quick test - updated

justin young — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:53:25 +0000

Here’s the newest version…still not perfect, but I at least got a smokey look to the light.

New version:

Older version:

After seeing the Metal Gear Solid ads that Logan did, I was tired not knowing how how one would go about creating something like that. The ending really impressed me so I thought I’d use it as inspiration to create something that was conceptually the same, but not really a duplicate. I just wanted to figure out how to get light passing through a smoky area and make it look really rich rather than something that was done with plug-ins straight out of the box.

It’s a little clunky, but it only took about an hour…so it could be polished up a bit if it were for something real. In case you were wondering to get this look I used standard AE effects along with Particular and Shine.

getting back into gear

justin young — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:28:56 +0000

It’s been nearly a month since I graduated. Seeing as how GTA4 can only be played for so long before I get bored/pissed off; I figured I’d get to work learning new techniques and new software. This is a start of a little project about conserving water once again…the same theme as my award winning project - the journey.

I’ve had my sights set on learning maya for the past couple of years and have finally come to grips with a node based system. Realflow is also another piece of software I had been poking around with since last semester. However, I’ve learned quite a bit about it since originally opening it, only to immediately close it due to confusion.

If you want to learn realflow and maya I recommend getting these tutorials from digital tutors:
Real flow and Maya integration

Another picture and a video after the jump.

water splash from Justin Young on Vimeo.

this shit is amazing

justin young — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:15:43 +0000

I found this on digg

http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/

Basically it’s a new way to interact with video. Once I move to my new hometown in the next few weeks, (NYC hopefully) I want to try and get my multi-touch box up and running for real…instead of in a cardboard box and try and implement something like this.

the show musn’t go on

justin young — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:59:51 +0000

The senior show is over. School is over. Now it’s time to get into the game.

There’s always something left to be done.

weird baby explosions

justin young — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:14:37 +0000

While working on my senior project about the customization of babies I started rigging up a fetus I found. The animation rig went terribly wrong, however I did accidently make some high art out of it. I’m thinking of making a series.

silly putty fetus art

this one is half man half rabbit, or “mabbit”

related project