Update on Life

A lot has happen in the last couple of months. First I finish school a couple of weeks ago. Secondly I won the Glenn Hyatt Memorial Scholarship for Excellence which means I finished top of my class with my fellow student friend Jody Sparkes. Third, my Gradshow at the Pendulum Gallery went really well (pictures coming soon) and I got a lot of great comments about my work. You can check out the grad show website. I also finished my personal website. Please check it out nicolestandard.com. I haven't really posted much of my work on this blog so here is some of the work I did in school. 

The first project is the History of Video Game Consoles. This was a personal project I created along with my husband. The booklet shows a brief history of video game consoles from 1967 to the present. The main challenge was to organize the content in a clear logical manner with a fresh cohesive look. The booklet format is 8.5 X 5.5 inches with twenty-eight pages. The booklet covers seven generations with each generation represented by a colour. For the cover, all the letters were designed and influenced by past games. The booklet will compliment an app that is being developed. Photos were taken by Evan-Amos.

My take on the album cover for Modest Mouse’s “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” was inspired by the lyrics and concept of the album as well as stop motion animation. I wanted to capture the feeling that this is the depiction of the first steps on an epic journey where the result can only be death. I used several textures and shadows to give that depth to the image.

Here are several websites I created throughout the course as well. These are just some of my work, please check out my website for even more work.

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Photo Provided by Breakthrough Entertainment

Finally, the big news, I got a job at Atomic Cartoons as an animator. I am working on a great new show called Rocket Monkeys. So far I am having lots of fun with these characters. It will be on Teletoon this fall in Canada. Please do check it out. As well as animating during the day, I'm doing illustrations and graphic design in the evening so look out for some more new work. 

Who needs a break eh?

Nicole Standard on the Behance Network

Nicole Standard on the Behance Network

The Decemberists

I created a Gig poster inspired by "The Decemberists." Folklore and historical events have a heavy presence in their songs. For this poster, I was inspired by The Brothers Grimm story " The Frog King" but I wanted him to have the look of a king from the early 1900s. I painted it from scratch in Photoshop and used some texture for the face and the jacket.

Movie Poster

This was another poster I did during those two weeks. I had to finish this poster before heading off to Vegas for a wedding, so I finished this poster in a day. I chose to do Edward Scissorhands for my movie poster. I wanted to have fun and play with a new style, so I went for a really stylized look. If anyone has watched the movie they will understand the concept of this poster. This poster was completed in Illustrator. I may come back to this piece and work on it a little more. I also just found out that I won the Entrance Scholarship award for my previous work I did before entering this program. The award ceremony is next week :)

1950s wallpaper

This exercise is based on a wallpaper concept inspired by a time period. I chose the 1950s for this piece. (Especially, Sci-Fi from the 1950s. )This design was created in Photoshop.