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Behance

Recently I created a Behance.com page to show off my work, as such here is a link to my new Behance page.

https://www.behance.net/RogerMSanderson

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TOR Wars Banner

In the next couple of months, Star Wars The Old Republic will be releasing a new expansion, Shadow of Revan. As such,I was asked to create a new banner for the TORWars website.

The name of the expansion provided an easy idea for the banner, namely that it should have an image of Revan which should in turn be in shadow.

So the first thing I did was to find an image of Revan that I could use;

As I was looking for that, I hit upon the idea to have Revan's shadow be overlayed onto the Galaxy.

With those two elements in place I easily copied the TORWars logo into the new banner, as well as created new text.

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Enterprise vs Enterprise

About a week or so ago I came across this image

It immediately amused me, and since I could not resist the symbolism I made it my profile pick on the Star Wars The Old Republic Guild.

It also inspired me. One of my guildies likes to get under my skin by saying how good he thinks Star Trek [2009] and Into Darkness are. So I decided to make an image of the two Enterprises fighting.

So the first thing I needed to do was find a suitable image of both the original series Enterprise and the JJ Enterprise.

Once I had those I needed to cut out each of the Enterprise's.

With both ships isolated I needed to find a background, after searching for a while I settled on one.

Then it was a simple matter of adding the two Enterprise's to the image.

With the two ships in position I needed to make it look like there was a battle, so I found a couple images of explosions and phaser beams. I adjusted the color of the phaser beams to make them look more like they did in the original series.

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For the past few months Star Trek Online has had a Screenshot contest, where players can take screenshots based on the theme of the month, edit them in a program like Photoshop, and submit them on the forums.

This is the first month I have had the opportunity to participate. So I took two in-game screenshots, cut-out the star-field on the bridge pic and replaced it with the space pic.

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Some more banners I have made for TORWars.

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Video created for Second Fleet Online, a Play by Email Role Playing Game.

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Video created for Star Trek Washington, a Play by Email Role Playing Game.

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Video created for Star Trek Washington, a Play by Email Role Playing Game.

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Video created for Star Trek Washington, a Play by Email Role Playing Game.

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Project: TORWars Banners

Three more banners for the three recurring events in SWTOR

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Project: Announcement

I actually made this several days ago, but the announcement had not been made yet so I did not post it here. Since the subject was announced today I can now share.

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Project: Raid Group Logo

In my SWTOR guild a new raid group was recently formed, as such they needed a logo. So I made this pretty simple logo:

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Project: TORWars Banner 3

Even more banners:

And a little touch up on Halloween:

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Project: TORWars Banner 2

After completing the Christmas banner for TORWars I decided to make some more for other holiday's. Thus I made ones for Valentines Day, Halloween, and April Fools Day. I have started on one for Thanksgiving, but it is still a work in progress.

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Internship: Remembering 9-11

The second project was a spot for the 10 year anniversary of 9-11. Naturally, I moved very carefully and thoughtfully while coming up with the idea for it.

Eventually I had a thought; If my little cousin, then 6-years old, were to see the skyline of New York what would we see. She would have seen the skyline as it is, while I would have seen both what was there but also what was not.

So I set about taking an image of the New York skyline and cutting out the various parts; the sky, city skyline, the river, and of course the twin towers.

Once I had all the parts how I wanted them I moved into After Effects. I then set it up so that the statue of liberty moved into frame, the twin towers would fade in but remain partly transparent to create a ghost image effect. In addition, the words 'Remembering 9-11' would fade in.

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Internship: Halloween Project

During my Internship with MGFX I had two main projects, in addition to the day to day projects, that I had to work on. While I worked on these concurrently, the first one I am going to talk about is the Halloween Project.

For this project I had to create a short clip as an intro to a Halloween segment. It took a while but I eventually hit on the idea of a fogy night with the moon rotating around to reveal it had been carved out like a jack-o-lantern. I achieved the jack-o-lantern effect using Cinema 4D, though it took a little while as this was my first time working in that program.

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Project: CastleCast Promo

At the time of this posting this project is still being worked on.

The purpose of this project is to create a new promo for an audio podcast I listen too.

The first thing I had to determine was what exactly I wanted to create. After various ideas I hit on the idea of having the promo be the main characters of the show the podcast is about interrogate the hosts of the podcast, as the show is a police procedural.

So I set about creating the script, which took a while as I figured out what I wanted everyone to say. Eventually I finished:

[Script Start]

BeckettL "Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD."

Castle: "Richard Castle, just NY."

{Possible transition asking for ID}

Heidi: "I'm Heidi."

John: "and I'm John."

(Beckett asks where John and Heidi were, either a couple days ago or a specific day like the day they record)

John/Heidi: Recording CastleCast."

Castle: (One of Castle's crazy theories)

John/Heidi: "A podcast for ABC's Castle."

(A transition of Beckett asking for details)

John/Heidi: (John and Heidi mention each segment and give a few details about them)

Becket: "That's all for now."

Castle: "Don't leave town."

[End Script]

Getting the lines from the host, John and Heidi, was easy as all I needed to do was ask them to record their lines and send them to me. As I waited I began searching for the sound bits I needed form the shows characters.

This is where I am currently at, waiting to get what I need from the hosts while I look for what I needed from the show.