Tick Tock

Here's another piece of music created with Xewton Music Studio on my iPod Touch 2G. It's another orchestral piece and given the limited number of instruments that come with Xewton, I'm very happy with how this came out!

AES iPhone products

I went to the AES Convention in NYC this weekend in search of any iPhone related audio products. I figured that there would be quite a few vendors who would be interested in creating pro-level microphones and other gear but I found only one. Studio 6 Digital were showing a collection of audio apps called Audio Tools as well as a new microphone and audio interface, both designed to be used with any version of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

I was a little disappointed at the size of this year's show. It was certainly a much larger show the last time I went in 2007 but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I went.

Finally, my video was an attempt to do a little bit of editing and sound work. I really had no footage to work with and very little audio but I was able to create something with a few photos I took and some sound effects I downloaded for free from PacTV.com.

Moonbase model sneak peak

Here's a couple of photos of my latest paper model project. It's an extremely simple model to build, consisting only of simple geometric shapes that are glued together to create something really interesting. All the detail comes from textures and the whole thing is designed to be easily built by anyone.

I've got another round of revisions to make to the model, then it's onto an instruction sheet and documentation. My goal is to have it ready for the Paper Model Convention, coming up in a couple of weeks.

Longing For Home

I made this song entirely on my IPod Touch using an app called Xewton Music Studio.

It's definitely the most expensive app I've ever purchased but I think it's worth every penny! There's certainly alot of room for improvement but I wanted to show what could be done on a handheld device in just about an hour's time.

Incrediville

These two digital backgrounds were created around 1998 (perhaps earlier). They represented two different environments for an internet portal called "Incrediville". The first environmentt was a kind of art exploration room and the other was a communications-email portal area. The toast character was designed by Peter Conlon, who is now a very succesful motion graphics designer in California.

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

These were backgrounds I did for a children's CD-ROM project called "Beethoven Lives Upstairs". They all began as layouts in Autodesk Animator and were completed in either Fractal Design Painter or Photoshop. These are among the earliest digital pieces I've ever done professionally and date back to 1996 or so.

Haunted Middle School

Here's the final image I submitted for the Haunted Middle School that my friend needed for his educational video. The final image is to have live action clouds dropped in as well as lightning flashes.

Days Long Ago

Here's a recent piece of music. The song is very melancholy with just piano, cello and strings. Think of a rain day...

The song started as an improvised piano piece and then was "orchestrated" after the fact by splitting off bits of midi information and assigning different instruments to it. The bass notes became a cello and the high notes became strings while the piano part remained untouched.

I didn't realize it when I put it together but I managed to lift a chorus from the Marillion song "Go!". Oh well, at least my song is free so please don't sue me!

Elizabeth's Song

My mother wanted to hear this song, so here it is. It's an awfully simple song but my daughter liked it, so it's named after her.

2D Animation Reel

This is my 2D animation reel that I cut together a couple of years ago. Most of this work was done throughout the 1990's, either for DMI Productions or for Music Pen. In retrospect, I wish I had not included the 3D work as it seems terribly dated now.

However, I make no apologies for the music, which was composed about 10 years ago.

For the record, all the artwork and animation is mine except for the following:

Caveman sequence backgrounds: Joe Corrao
"Baby's Morningtime" (girl painting on hillside) backgrounds by Richard Lazlo
"The Magic School Bus" backgrounds: Peter Carella and Joe Corrao
"Toast Of The Town" character design: Peter Conlon

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Haunted School sketch

A friend asked me to create an image of a haunted middle school for a project he is working on. I created this sketch as a proof of concept. He liked it but wanted something even larger and a bit more gothic. Here's my original sketch. I'll post the actual image when I get my friend's permission.

some Twitter button designs

Someone had asked me to create some Twitter button designs for him. I'm not certain they were ever used (or might be in the future) but I really liked they way they turned out. I was going after that Road Runner-type background for the sign and something simple but fun for the car chase.

Spinning off my animations to a new blog

I've wanted to spin off my animations onto a blog all their own so that anyone who wants to see them doesn't have to sift through all my other stuff. My animation blog is located here.

The URL for all those in the know is:
http://pierreanimation.blogspot.com/

St. George Reeg paper model

This is a photo of a paper model I designed for an organization committed to restoring the St. George Reef Lighthouse out in California. This project was interesting because I have never been to the lighthouse, but only had photographs to go by. Thankfully, the person I was working with was extremely understanding and patient and I'm really happy with how the model turned out.

If you want to build your own, the model is available on ebay right here!

Paper Model website is online!

My paper model website is now online. I've got three models for sale and three free models to download. Come on over and check out what I have available!

The URL is:
http://pierrespapermodels.com/