Hello, my name is Jon Campollo I’m 19 and I’m studying to become an animator or cartoonist, my friends nicknamed me Jay, I am of filipino ancestry and grew up away from their culture and all that, after college I wish to take a trip to Japan and learn study some art there. On my free time I love to draw, fence and game hard sometimes, but there is not a second that my head is either in asketchbook or looking up art to draw. I’ve drawn multiple different cartoon characters and I’ve even created my own comic, though it was not successful. I am currently redesigning it and changing the plot and character development.
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Hi, my name is Brian…
and I am a student at Lane Community College pursuing my AAS in Multimedia Design. I was a jack of many trades with a ridiculous amount of ambition in my twenties, but now going into my early thirties I am quickly realizing my true passion is in design and concept. My goal is to help create a design company with a group of fellow students with hope within a few years I lead the design strategist department with plenty of portfolio work under my belt.
I figured instead of explaining my history, interests and future plans in depth, I would list ten things about me that I find interesting and hopefully you do as well:
10.) I have ran and started two successful businesses in my lifetime (pool service, DJ/KJ) I once sold a company I started for $2000 to another company for $40,000. I currently own and run a lotion bar company by myself. Super Natural Lotion Bars
9.) I once was obsessed with Texas Hold-Em poker and ran a league for three years, I also won a seat and played in the world series of Poker in 2009. Now you know where the $40,000 went (for reals).
8.) At the age of 19, I was cast to star in a MTV reality show called “FM Nation” it ran one season and it was terrible. The silver lining here was my introduction into acting and multimedia. Link to show
7.) Since high school, I have created various song parodies and humorous rap songs (20 total). I won a battle rap competition in the year 2000 and was a semi-finalist various times on rapbattle.com. Trust me, it was always satirical and not serious. My father raised me around 1980’s metal. (explicit content) One of my songs
6.) I constantly strive to enter the YouTube comedy market. I spend a lot of time writing and producing pilot shows with hopes they get picked up by online comedy syndicates.
Here’s an example of a show I wrote, directed, produced and directed(explicit content)
5.) My grandmother on my mothers side was Italian (rest her soul) and on my fathers side was okie-Cherokee. During her lifetime it was not acceptable to be native american, therefore she was ashamed and hid it from the government. Alas, I am not allowed to receive native benefits (but I still love and miss her dearly nonetheless). My combined heritage is; Italian, Cherokee, Danish and Irish.
4.) I was the lead in a full feature length comedy movie called “Border Brothers”which is due out this year and will most likely be on Netflix. I also helped with parts of the screenplay, stunt driving, and edited the unofficial trailer.
The movie trailer (explicit content)
3.) I grow four different types of hair color due to my mixed genetics. I started to grey at 20, my hair also shows black and brown, my beard grows red (ginger) with some brown. I share a good amount of my gene pool with my grandfather on my mothers side.
2.) My biggest dream in life is still to write for a sketch comedy show or a sitcom, I was voted in high school “most likely to be on SNL”. For over ten years I have been writing, directing and producing YouTube skits. I was in theater for 6 years between high school and early college, as well as choir and pursed stand up comedy for 4 years with a decent amount of success.
1.) I moved to Eugene to better myself, I wanted to start over with school, make more friends and expand my creativity. Though I miss my friends and family, it was the best decision I’ve ever made so far in my life. I have a little one of the way and I take my career path more serious than ever.
I am very excited to expand my knowledge and network with my fellow design students!
The Silent J
Hello, my name is Matthew Curry I have chosen to take this class to help better my skills for game development/computer simulation major here at Lane Community. When I have free time I usually spend it chatting with friends and family, playing video games, watching movies, drawing and being an all around nerd of comics and anime. Ever since i was a child I believed that i was born in the wrong century with a feeling of detachment to everything that I came upon, if asked what time period I should have been born I will generally answer that I should have been born in the 1400’s being either a pirate or working as a merchant traveling around Europe. As I grew older I soon realized that I sought to become a game developer wanting to create a gaming system that is both interactive and virtual reality where your mind is the controller and that your imagination will be your greatest weapon in a world where you can be what you choose to be.
A rewarding future in media
this is my journey into the field of multimedia , Ive been a sketch artist and tattoo body art practitioner for 37 years. Im also a founding member for (CASPSBA) the California alliance for the promotion of safe body art. We created lectures and events to educate artist and health inspectors alike into better awareness of blood borne pathogens and there risks. Today I’m shifting my art skills to a different medium in hopes of a rewarding future. kraig santo aka olioartist
About Me
Hello, my name is Jon Campollo I’m 19 and I’m studying to become an animator or cartoonist, my friends nicknamed me Jay, I am of filipino ancestry and grew up away from their culture and all that, after college I wish to take a trip to Japan and learn study some art there. On my free time I love to draw, fence and game hard sometimes, but there is not a second that my head is either in asketchbook or looking up art to draw. I’ve drawn multiple different cartoon characters and I’ve even created my own comic, though it was not successful. I am currently redesigning it and changing the plot and character development.
Creative Chaos 2014-12-08 22:35:57
This project was a lot of fun and mostly came from experimenting with different light painting techniques as well as learning my way around Adobe Premiere. Originally I had much different plans for this project but they were still in the realms of producing a video to accompany music made by friends. Due to a series of unfortunate events I turned my focus on creating hundreds of light painting stills using different techniques and then bringing them together in premiere to produce a continuous video from the stills. I used my Nikon D3200 with stock lens to take the photos. My partner and myself had a lot of fun with the light painting shots and once we got started the ideas were coming at an incredible rate and we needed to recruit more bodies to execute them. We were able to include the kids in this process which was great fun for them although I can’t help but wonder what passing people might have thought as it may have appeared we were having our own rave in the park with a bunch of kiddos hopped up on candy canes. Some of the shots didn’t make the cut this time around because they were still a bit experimental and needed perfecting so there will definitely be more trials and perfecting to this art form in the future. I was fortunate enough to have a friend that could put down a music track relatively quickly although originally my plan was to have the video accompanied by the full band, the guitarist and Garageband worked out well. The hardest part of this project was my computer crashing in final edit and having to start the whole editing process again, thank goodness I still had all the camera shots. I have definitely learned so much from this process in so many aspects. It has triggered an urge and desire to expand and refine in the future.
P6 Final Project – Light Painting
This project was a lot of fun and mostly came from experimenting with different light painting techniques as well as learning my way around Adobe Premiere. Originally I had much different plans for this project but they were still in the realms of producing a video to accompany music made by friends. Due to a series of unfortunate events I turned my focus on creating hundreds of light painting stills using different techniques and then bringing them together in premiere to produce a continuous video from the stills. I used my Nikon D3200 with stock lens to take the photos. My partner and myself had a lot of fun with the light painting shots and once we got started the ideas were coming at an incredible rate and we needed to recruit more bodies to execute them. We were able to include the kids in this process which was great fun for them although I can’t help but wonder what passing people might have thought as it may have appeared we were having our own rave in the park with a bunch of kiddos hopped up on candy canes. Some of the shots didn’t make the cut this time around because they were still a bit experimental and needed perfecting so there will definitely be more trials and perfecting to this art form in the future. I was fortunate enough to have a friend that could put down a music track relatively quickly although originally my plan was to have the video accompanied by the full band, the guitarist and Garageband worked out well. The hardest part of this project was my computer crashing in final edit and having to start the whole editing process again, thank goodness I still had all the camera shots. I have definitely learned so much from this process in so many aspects. It has triggered an urge and desire to expand and refine in the future.
P6 Digging the duality of graves
I have been playing at the idea and practice of reading cemeteries for a very long time. I was struck by the realization that, inside the given of a cultural landscape, cemeteries had neighborhoods and enclaves that were as distinct and open to interpretation as any street or cityscape. Before moving to Oregon, most of my wandering have been within cemeteries that had been established well before 1850, and the majority of Civil War headstones marked the graves of men killed during the war. That is why I was struck my the number of grave markers for Civil War veterans, most of whom were from the upper Midwest and who had died as very old men after moving to Oregon. These men and their cemetery told a much different story about Eugene and the evolution of Oregon as a whole.
When I originally envisioned this project, I anticipated using a mix of video and stills with voiceover and text. My still photos were much stronger than my video bits, and I was getting wigged out at the amount of voiceovers I would need to record. The final project, therefore, is all stills with a lot of text. [Note: The date on the final should read 2014, and I know through doesn’t have two ts.]
P6 Final Project
By Laura Hale
I really wanted to capture the aspect of storytelling with this project, which was actually much harder with the narration than I thought it would be. I had to cut out a lot of sentences and adjust timing and cut even further down to make the three minutes. I also had to make sure I had to keep enough information inside the story to keep its beginning middle and end as clear as I could. If I had to redo this entire project I would use a different program to record my drawings and make them more detailed. Again, it comes down to the program and what it allows you to do and what you can figure out for its abilities. Audio levels were also very important, both in timing and how loud they were coming in for, they couldn’t overwhelm the narration for the most part nor each other. Image quality wasn’t too much of an issue with this project as all of the image were digital or at least digitized through filters. Lessons learned, know certain programs a bit better and keep up to date with them.
P6 – Final Project
This is my final project video “The Meet”. I was going for a mob themed short video, probably from watching too much Sopranos. This was only my 2nd video I’ve shot, the first being the P5 video. I started with trying to think up ideas and just started drawing out a story board, slowly adding frame after frame of what I wanted to happen next. I drew the storyboard up to the meeting and thought, “what if it’s not really what you think?”
The planning process was a big part of the video’s success. I had to find a time when I could get enough of my friends to fill all of the parts. One of my friends in the video lives in Portland, and the other two U of O students, so the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend was the only time I could get us all together. I used my suits for the costumes and had to get cigars and liquor for props.
Another thing was finding a place to film, a place that would be okay to smoke a cigar indoors. I ended up using a friend of one of the actor’s place. Luckily he wasn’t working that day and I used his garage as the meet setting. He was playing video games in the same garage with somebody and we had to keep asking them to be quiet without being bossy.
Another difficulty encountered was the outside lighting. I wanted to film the outdoor scenes at a dusk-like setting. Only once it started to get dark, it started to get dark really fast. I had to hurry up doing outdoor scenes and it ended up getting too dark for me to film the piano transaction scene. I had to go back to the same place the next day during while the guy who lives there was home on a work break. I hadn’t filmed the scenes of putting the keyboard in the trunk and driving away and wanted the location to be the same. I finished the drive away scene and then the same problem from the day before happened. It got dark really fast.
We started the piano transaction scene and decided to film it in the house’s driveway. It was getting dark and only one light above the front of the garage worked. I had my friend back his car into the driveway for him to open the hatch in the video and had my other friend face his car toward the garage with its lights on for more light. It wasn’t as bright as I thought it would be, but it was enough to just see what was going on. I guess they were in a dark alley or something. As soon as I finished filming the last scene I needed, I was going to suggest maybe trying it one more time when the car whose lights we were using died. We had to jump the car while it was freezing cold and dark outside while trying to hurry to get the person who lived there back to work. We got the car running, loaded up all the props in the car and were on our separate ways.
Even with all the difficulties encountered and the overall stress experienced through the process of planning and production, I had a really good time making this video from beginning to end. Its really cool to see just an idea of mine actually manifest into something that I can enjoy watching. It also helped that I filmed with people I’ve known for a long time. I am looking forward to making future videos and hope I can just get better each time.