The Rocco Effect

2 Designs i made for front pages of a Cafe Menu (Stewart's Cafe Glasgow).  A Student Version and an Adult Version.  Both made for a friend but if you like what you see and want me to design something for you email me and we can discuss payments - Rocco.Desta@Gmail.Com Adult Version Student Version And 3 designs i did for  Piggy Malones in Cumbernauld.   Piggy Malones - Menu Design Piggy Malones - This is the main poster/flyer design.  Used to advertise the business. Piggy Malones - Student discount card.

My showreel is based around 2d character animation as this is the field id love to get into.  If interested in my work my contact details are at the end of the video. Gif Set No.5 - Clips from the Showreel

My current business card designs Back - I decided to show off a small sample of my work on the back as all the important info was on the front.  This also allows companies to see my work without having to check my site.  Hopefully liking what they see and wanting to see more. Back Front - important stuff Name, Industry your interested in, your sites, and contact details.  I also inserted a QR code allowing companies to view site without having to type anything into search bar.    Front

Lego Man Side View Front view 3/4 View Mario Block Mario Block

My final 4th year project.  Im rather happy with it all, would have loved to have more time to touch it up but still feel its a pretty awesome wee piece of animation. I also produced a poster on photoshop to advertise my animation.

1st off i start with storyboards getting the initial idea down.  I'm not one to use scrips, i take lots of notes but i just work better with pictures. After the story boards i go out and film.  When filming the initial idea change a bit, mainly because characters needed to be more fleshed out and some changes had to be done to suit the location. This was my 1st ever time using after effects and im rather proud of what i ended up with.  I have grown to love after effects and look into using it a lot more in the future. Test film - I do this to give me an idea on how everything looks and flows.  This also allows me to have friends see if anything needs to be changed. I then get to work on making the final.  I released i had to re-dub the voices but after watching it with some music i released the film worked a lot better without the speech.  I also touched up and added a few more effects. I left it on a cliff hanger as i really liked this

I just want to show you how much effort i actually put into an animation. And who knows maybe you just might learn something from it all. 1st of the line test.  This helps me picture whats going to happen and lets me test out wether the animations work or not.  Also alot easier to make changes at this stage as its so basic. I then move on to a fleshed out version.  Basically the final version without the details.  This allows me to see how the final version will look and allows me to make any changes before the final version, were it will be much harder to change as there is a-lot more detail in it. I then add some basic colours to show me how it looks coloured.  This allows me to see what changes need to be made to the outlines. And finally the final version.  Cleaned up lines and the final colours.  I wish i had more time to spend on the lines and the colours here as im still not completely satisfied but you

Flying Bird - Front Roaring Cat Ipod/Headphones/Deal With It Rotoscope - Drummer Rotoscope- Drummer 2 Rotoscope - Skate (Slow mo) Rotoscope - Skate (slow mo) 2

Basically this was mixing animation and programing together in flash 1st 'Game' Just click on the objects and watch the interactions that occur.  Seems to crash after clicking phone or seat though. Game 1 2nd Game was to be a story based game so use the arrows to control the man and try and process through the story.  Tip. Watch the animations they should (i hope)  lead you in the right direction to complete the s tory. Game 2

Original pencil Test.   Just to check if the animation works, allows me to easily change anything that didnt work. Fleshed Out Test.   Final test with everything fleshed out, Pretty much how the final animation will look. Final animation.