After numerous searches, I finally located the copyright owner of the leaping rabbit image that I'd borrowed some time ago, for my logo. It turns out to be a tattoo company, and they did not want me to use their image in my logo, though they said "thank you for asking." So I've changed the design to a similar image, which I drew myself, basically copying the pose from their bunny, but an entirely new piece of art.  I didn't ask, but hopefully they won't object to my leaving the originals so that there's some context to all of this fuss.

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Corporate Logo Project

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This is not anything official for The Discovery Channel.  It's the logo I chose to animate and perform the listed requirements for my Motion Graphics (After Effects) class.  I had to look for a flat globe of the Earth, make it spherical, add clouds (3 layers), rotate the planet to the left; rotate the clouds at different intervals, to the right; place the (hypothetical) names in a particular sequence; show a graph; and roll some credits -- all of these at specified times, making sure not to encroach upon the rights of the logo.

Animated Logo

My new animated logo for "Hare in the Moon Productions".  I created this in After Effects.  The images of the bunny and the moon are not my own.  I'm in the midst of working it out with the copyright owners to use them.

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I keep vacillating between "Hare in the Moon" or "Shawn Hare" Productions, for the name of my (potential) production company.

New Logo

I created a new logo (at top of the blog). The rabbit drawing isn't mine, but I'm trying to find the artist and perhaps buy the rights to it from him/her.  It was on an Etsy website but I can't find it anymore, for some reason.  But anyway, I can always make my own bunny drawing to fit into the scene.  This is actually an animated logo, and I'll post it as soon as it's finished and passed into my Motion Graphics (After Effects) class at NEIT.  The name of the company, "Hare in the Moon Productions", I'm going to register pronto!

Finals for the second quarter are next week. So after that, I'll be posting my final projects, which will include the animated logo, along with an EFP (Electronic Field Production) news story that I and my partner (for this project) Sean Murphy worked on together.

The only thing that's really killing me is Algebra.  I want to learn it simply because it's learnable, and a challenge, but I don't really need a whole heck of a lot of it.  I do tend to ask myself questions such as "I wonder how many people can fit into Rhode Island, in a 3-foot x 3-foot square" and that sort of thing, which I could reach in a roundabout way, using regular math, but there's probably a much shorter way of doing it with Algebra.  Be that as it may, I'll be glad when that class is over and done with, and I hope I don't need to do any other kind of math class ... other than the "Business Math" which is required. But I've got a feeling that's going to be basic stuff, just with greater principles, for the business world.