Megalongcat | Design in the Presence of Idiocy. -

Not too long ago I posted a request on Twitter to have any designers or visual people take a look at my new portfolio website layout and tell me what they think. It’s still in the mockup phase so they were critiquing screenshots of the possible layout.

Taking screenshots in video games has been around since 16bit color console and PC games. It’s nothing new and we all take it for granted that every time we frag someone in Halo, or do an awesome stunt in Gran Turismo that we can screenshot the moment and plaster it over the internets. [...]

For those of you following me on Twitter, you’ll notice that late one night around 2am I started freaking out. My normally calm, methodical, and placid personality was shattered when I found that four of my websites (two blogs, one of which being Megalongcat) and two personal websites were completely down with no reason [...]

The age of the pure 3d rendered trailer seems to be losing steam in places like Japan, China, Korea, and here in America; major gaming companies have taken note of these and have started to provide more down to earth, inspiring, and moving motion graphic pieces that keep you on the edge of the seat even though you know the game looks nothing like it. Battlefield Bad Company 2 HD trailer offers promotional material that had me going =O.

Today we’re taking an in depth look at three companies famous across America for providing food and drink to the American people for generations.  Each brand is one that most of us have grown up with and though we are used to seeing slight variations in logos over time, there is nothing more upsetting than [...]

I’m not a person with 1,500 people following me (I wouldn’t mind being that person though) but I do have a large number of people that I follow and who follow me, but I’ve found that most of the time I skim through their tweets on tweetdeck without paying any real attention. I’ve gone [...]

Jealousy? This is jealousy and amazement. I’m not really a huge fan of commercial motion graphics because they tend to stifle free creativity, yet absolut vodka has always managed to find great animators, motionographers….

A couple of days ago I saw someone had posted a story to: “People used to stand for something” by Jordan Allen on my tweetdeck which soon got me wondering: “What do I, as a designer, stand for?”. My natural reflex started tossing adjectives in my mind such as ethical, moral, sustainable, green, socially [...]

Just because your client is paying your bills doesn’t mean you have to be their slave. You’re not just a designer because you’re good at doing what you’re told. Sometimes you have to stand up and tell your client that they’re wrong.

Alias Glee – Overtime from Syn Studios on Vimeo.
I just can’t get enough eye candy lately. I found this video on Vimeo and figured it would be great inspiration for all of the creatives out there. It doesn’t really matter what field you’re in, Syn Studios has produced a stunning motion graphics video [...]