MMD-Odense

F&A 3.sem group is media team for World championship

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:16:36 +0000

A group of our students are the media team for world championship in Windsurfing in Kerteminde here in Denmark.
They are streaming videos from the boats to Internet, taking pictures and updating the website.
See video from TV here:

miko

Nice Filmfestival Project June 2010- Web and video prototypes

bojen — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:54:45 +0000

This spring talented students from 2. semester Film & Animation class developed web og video trailer prototypes for Odense International Filmfestival (OFF – See www.filmfestival.dk ). Along with analysis of target groups and communication related issues.

Birgitte Weinberger, the nice lady at the picture and managing director for OFF, gave the Film & animation students good introductions and feedback to the students work during the semester.
MMD Odense is very happy about the cooperation with OFF, that has provided the students with a realistic case environment. Further more the OFF project gave the students very good production experience using software tools like Maya, Matchmover, Adobe Premiere, After Effects and Adobe Flash.

Watch Video trailer examples:
1) Group2, ”Play Purple”:
http://finaloff.sub.ots.dk/gruppe2/trailer1site.html
http://finaloff.sub.ots.dk/gruppe2/trailer2site.html

2) Group 4, “Be Seen”
http://finaloff.sub.ots.dk/gruppe4/homepage%203.0/Dreamweaver/3dhigh.html

3) Group 5, ”Switch OFF”
http://finaloff.sub.ots.dk/gruppe5/website/vscreen.html

All the students work can be found at project site: http://finaloff.sub.ots.dk

Regards Lars Bojen, F&A Coordinator, lcbn@eal.dk

Clickable Screenshots from some of the OFF trailers and websites.

MMD teachers at TypoBerlin 2010

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:22:29 +0000

Mette Agerbæk and Lise Agerbæk in TypoBerlin 2010 outfits on Berlin Hauptbahnhof

“Passion” was the theme of the 2010 TypoBerlin conference, in which MMD teachers Mette Agerbæk, Merete Østergaard and Lise Agerbæk just participated. The logo of the conference was thus a heart in a tattooish style, which could be bought on tee-shirts, seen in presentation titles and put on your body as a disposable tattoo. The conference was a boost of inspiration. Candy Chang, a designer and urban planner working for among others Nokia, taught us to look at the street as a place that graphic design can interact with. Frank Schomburg from Nextpractice.de taught us to look at ourselves not as digital natives, but as either digital residents or digital visitors. He based this on a massive questionnaire survey. The findings show that how you populate the internet has nothing to do with age, but a lot to do with how you use the internet. Lastly König Bansah and Julian Zimmerman in a presentation wittingly called “The King is Customer” showed how a graphic design for a Ghanaian king from Ludwigshafen should look in order to make the king look both very royal and very exotic. Apart from that we as designteachers were very happy to learn of the new webfonts format called woff, which allows webdesigners to use a lot more fonts that the 3-4 installed on most computers.

“Big Typography” – new web design style at MMD Odense

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:30:38 +0000

“Big typography” literally means huge typography – the use of giant letters in webdesign. This is seen in more and more places on the net. Look at e.g. DesignMag or Smashing Magasin.
At MMD-Odense design teacher Mette Agerbæk has introduced “task force typography”.
Students work intensely with different fonts – among other things by drawing them by hand. Mette calls this “typography croquis”. The idea is to develop a close relationship with different fonts. We want students to leave MMD-Odense with a design-style-toolbox, so they may offer clients many design options. Big Typography is just the latest of the design styles, we introduce students to.
The illustration shows Big Typography used in a web design.

3D Experience workshop

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:49:10 +0000

With our 1.sem Multimedia designer classes for web, we have just finished our first 3D experience workshop, and with great success.

3D Experience Workshop Website

In this workshop our students visualize different kind of buildings based on the tools Photoshop, Maya and Unity 3D.

Check it out.
miko

MMD & Web Development Ba at “48-timer”

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:19:13 +0000

48 timer på MMA

MMD Project – Nominated between the top 20 in Europe

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:45:17 +0000

The Professor’s Laboratory is now gone – south – to Spain.

Link to blog from Spain
You can follow the project in Spain above.

The group is nominated in Spain to be one of 20 best new and innovative projects in Europe.

Thursday this week they will present the project for the judges.

We congratulate here from MMD Odense and hope that the group will win.

miko

Escape Studios

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:41:51 +0000

Vi har i London besøgt Escape Studios.

Vi fik set et professionelt kursus-sted, som dels leverer unge talenter til f.eks MPC og andre produktionssteder i UK og dels leverer hardware og software til firmaerne også.

De studerende kan komme ind i deres job-agency og på den måde få et job i UK.

En 12 ugers uddannelse på stedet koster godt. 8000 GBP, men så er man også så godt som sikret et job i branchen.

miko

moving-picture

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:35:40 +0000

Så har vi været på besøg hos:

http://www.moving-picture.com/

Det var en stor succes. De arbejder dels med show-reels og dels med film-reels. De har 600 ansatte i London og kontorer i LA (Show reel stedet) og Vancouver (Film stedet nu)
Vores studerende var begejstrede.

MPC arbejder dels med Maya og dels med Adobe pakken og endelig andre pakker herunder Nuke.
De fortalte at de nu vil skifte helt til Nuke, som main applikation sammen med Maya.
Derudover har de en R&D afdeling, som laver plugins til Maya.

Deres ansatte er studerende som vores, som kommer fra hele verdenen. Hende vi talte med kom fra Brasilien.

De studerende fik også tips til hvordan de kan ansøge om at arbejde som “runner” på 4.sem. Altså en person som laver te, kaffe, kopierer etc. og så får chancen til at vise sit værd, når projekterne har tidsproblemer. Masser af ansatte komme ind på den måde.
Hvad de studerende havde lavet tidligere og hvilke papirer de har var ikke så vigtigt, men de skal have en fed show-reel (video), som klart viser hvad de vil. Den skal være kort og præcis. Det kan godt være få sekunder, men til gengæld skal man klart kunne se potentialet.
Vi fik visitkort med hjem fra firmaet

miko

2 semester F&A is in London for the studytour

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:11:08 +0000

Our studytour for London is up and running.

Today we visited MPC – http://www.moving-picture.com/

We saw all the new show-reels they are creating. Great stuff.

They use Maya like we do and also AE. We got a lot of tips of how to become “runner” and apply in the company. I think that all students and teachers were very happy.

miko