About Me
I’m Brian.
I’m training to be a Multimedia Designer.
I like designing for all the senses, including doing:
- Video Editing
- Sound/Music Production
- Motion Graphics
- 3D Animation
- Hand Drawn 2D Animation
- Graphic Design
- Interactive Development
- Light Coding (Flash/CSS)
- Script Writing/Short Stories
I listen to lots of music.
My dream is to have the ability to tell the stories in my head, and always be able to look on things with a sense of wonder.
My design philosophy is to inspire wonder in the people that view my creations, and to hopefully bring them back to knowing what it was like to not know or have an opinion on everything. Childlike wonder is such an important part of life, and I’m ashamed to see people less and less in touch with it. I aim to reconnect any audience I have with this feeling though my skills.
Thanks for reading.
Below is my artist’s statement as of January 21, 2008:
My work centers around three concepts: parsimony, sincerity, and wonder. As I learn what I enjoy creating, I gravitate towards themes which stray from the complication and unneeded confusion of much of the modern world. I feel that I have a responsibility to create guided by these ideals, as they are in short supply in this age of technology. Although I am a multimedia designer, that does not imply complexity and discrete understanding.
The modern media of the USA concentrate on fear and overload tactics to captivate and isolate the audience. Violence and terror are touted as ratings gold, and have become deeply etched into our culture. I am disgusted with this. I feel I should do everything I can to bring the strength of simplicity to a medium exhausted with multilayered confusion. In this, I hope to emphasize the sincerity of my art, and to stand out with a clear and universally understood, sincere message. People crave simplicity and honesty in this media age, and I aim to imbue my art with these qualities.
The other side of this philosophy is my dedication to retain this sense of wonder. I began to understand a few years back that as people get older, they typically lose touch with child-like awe and embracing of the unknown. This feeling is another unfortunate casualty of our culture of fear. Lack of understanding begins to cultivate fear. This struck me hard because I found it happening to me. In an effort to reverse this aging process, I place a heavy emphasis on our lack of understanding of certain phenomena (love, death, nature, ancient culture). I now tend towards the simple appreciation of mystery and unanswered questions, and being content in admitting that there are some things we shouldn’t over complicate. I’ve found that in this age of information, some things should be left unknown, at best, imagined.