Spydercam has three basic setups that we do:
- the Bullet, which is a single axis, point to point, very stable and very fast rig.
- the Falcon, which is a 2 axis ‘foy’ style rig, this can go back and forth and up and down in any fashion that the director wants, this rig is the kind of rig that we use to get shots like spiderman swinging through the streets of NYC
- the Talon, which was named after the jet fighter in the movie ‘Stealth’, which was the first major production the talon system was used on. It is a 3d system, and the camera can fly anywhere in a specified 3d box. This system is the system that we won an academy award for developing.
In any case, these are the logos that i designed to try to convey all of the above text in a nice simple form so that the producers and directors who want to hire us can easily see what they might want to use.
astute readers will notice that these have the same basic form factor as the custom t-shirt logos. It turns out those were quite popular not only among the spyderguys but also with the people we work with on set, so to capitalize on that, i went ahead and used that nice simple outer-circle to help link all that together visually.
My good friend Miellyn and her husband Shaun make indie movies. Their company is called Fight Me Films. and they do some cool stuff. This is the logo I designed for them.
After working with the same group of people for long enough, everyone usually ends up with some sort of nickname, or something that they are associated with within the group. This happened fairly rapidly with the Spydercam crew, and we wanted to make some custom tee-shirts, but instead of our names, ahve some nice pictorial representation of our nicknames or whatever.
Here are all those designs, each meant to be printed onto the center-front-chest of a black t-shirt.
I still work with the great guys at Spydercam, and i was also lucky enough to be around near the inception of the company. One of the riggers at the time had a good idea for a logo, one night out at dinner, and he drew it, literally on the back of a napkin. using that sketch as a rough guide, i shot some reference photos of the arri 435 film camera, and used that as the main subject of the logo, then added the legs and the prominent matte box.
This logo was one of the very first illustrations that i really did. Previously i had used my mad skillz to do simple stuff for web site designs and font treatments, but nothing that i would consider ‘design’. The spyder logo was done about 7 years ago.
strange things happen sometimes. I havent really done much ‘real’ illustration work, but recent i have gotten a few illustration gigs, so i decided to wander back through all my electronic doodles and put some of my work up, it turns out there is way more than i remember.
In this and the following few entries, i am gonna put up a bunch of the ones that i liked the most, and were the most fun to work on.
This is one of my very favorites, it is the logo for the very creative duo at Fatlab Music. These guys are good friends of mine, and when they redesigned their site last year, i offered to redesign their logo. We came up with their new logo, three very simple lines that are (IMHO) very expressive.
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