Know, like and trust, how to get more clients

Read this text by the Futur:

https://www.thefutur.com/10-things-you-should-do-now-to-get-more-clients/

If I look back at my clients. Most of them I would be able to track back to single events or persons. I can draw a node tree, that would be intricate, but with more or less no broken link.

It's all about contacts and who you know. But these contacts need to like you, and you need to be trusted to get the work.

In the 10 things sum up, there's a lot of great tips. Not just for designers, but for anyone that want an interesting work life.

So keep on gaining knowledge from different sources, and remember there's no quick fix.

And If there's anything on the list I can help with don't hesitate to contact me! :)

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Why you should stop using Chrome!

Over a couple of weeks I have tried to fix an image problem. All the images I uploaded to a site looked really blurry on Chrome. Of course this post can be out of date any day, but February 2018 this is relevant :)

Chromes doesn't handle image scaling very well. These days with responsive design, we design sites with percentages, will sites and images be shown in many different sizes. It's crucial that everything looks good on any platform.

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Firefox 58 and Internet Explorer 11 (haven't tried on Edge or Opera), look like expected, small size thumbnail images is crispy clear.

But Chromes result looks out of focus and horrible. Yes, this can be seen as nitpicking, but as shown in the picture above you can see the difference clearly.

And weirdly enough theres is an easy fix, and why this isn't standard on Chrome beats me.

To gain a better result, add this code to you CSS:

image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast

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Since most sites don't have this image-rendering CSS added to their site, you are guaranteed that the web looks worse on Chrome. Use Firefox! :) Images in Firefox are even sharper than the image-rendering enhancement.

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Here I flip between Firefox, IE 11, Chrome and Firefox

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Here I flip between Chrome and Firefox

PS: I have nothing to do with firefox, I only want you to have the best web-experience possible :)

Color - Animated shorts sizzling with knowledge

I came across this series with highly effective animated shorts about color. Every transition is a joy to see and the content magnificent.

And read about the subject over at CNN

Take a look at learn a lot!

Colorscope is a series on CNN that explores our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time. Inspired by our love for The Purple One we chose the last color on the spectrum, a marriage of opposites, a mixture between the hottest color and the coldest. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/health/colorscope-purple/index.html For full credits visit buck.tv

We love CNN's Colorscope series, and were very excited to be asked to contribute. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about pink, but were afraid to ask. See the other colours here: www.cnn.com/colorscope ----- CREDITS Client: CNN Creative Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Directed by Giant Ant Creative Direction: Jay Grandin Producer: Liam Hogan Storyboard: Conor Whelan, Jay Grandin, Marion Bordeyne, Eric Pautz Art Direction: Eric Pautz Illustration & Visual Development: Eric Pautz, Marion Bordeyne, Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Sitji Chou, Whitney Lam Animation Direction: Conor Whelan Animation: Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Chris Anderson, Henrique Barone, Matt James, Taylor Peters, Whitney Lam Compositing: Conor Whelan, Eric Pautz Sound Design: Bryan Stone

Short history of the colour black made for CNN as part of their Colorscope series. Direction, Design and Animation by Matt Abbiss Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious Animation by Marta Reis Andrade Sound Design by Bryan Stone Music by Giacomo Smith 2017

YELLOW is part of the Colorscope series by CNN. "They call it mellow yellow". The short documentaries about different colours shows us on this episode how the colour yellow makes us happy, is on the most visibles hues and it's relation with science and religion. Created by Sebastián Baptista Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox Music: Giacomo Smith Sound Design: Bryan Stone Special thanks to: Andy, Pini & Javi

The Dark Truth Behind White Working with CNN I directed and animated an episode of Colorscope, a series exploring the secret truths behind colour. Client - CNN Production - Sarah-Grace Mankarious Direction / Animation - Jocie Juritz Writing / Narration - Dr James Fox http://edition.cnn.com/specials/arts/colorscope-series http://www.jociejuritz.co.uk/CNN-white

"Green, the mixture of blue and yellow, can be seen everywhere and in countless shades. In fact, the human eye sees green better than any color in the spectrum. But why is that?" I teamed up (once again) with the amazing Rafael Mayani for this short piece commissioned by CNN International to explain the so-familiar colour, green. Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Written and Narrated by Dr. James Fox Animation: Jorge R. Canedo E. Design: Rafael Mayani Music: Giacomo Smith Sound Design: Bryan Stone

"Blue is the world's favourite colour" We worked with CNN and Dr. James Fox to produce a film for their Colour Scope series. See the website here: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/specials/colorscope-blue/ Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious & Moth Direction & Design by Moth Animation by Moth, Joe Bichard, Jennifer Zheng, Aaron Lampert, Carlos De Faria, Stephen McNally, Ester Rossi Sound Design by David Kamp Music by Giacomo Smith Client - CNN Production Year - 2016

The 8th episode of CNN Colorscope explores the allure of Gold; worshiped by pharoahs, Aztecs and millennials alike. See the series on cnn.com/colorscope Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox Director and Animator: Tim Booth Music: Giacomo Smith Sound Design: Bryan Stone

Colorscope is an award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures one shade at a time. Orange is the colour of sunsets, budget airlines, traffic cones and protestants, but it can also be toxic…! http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/06/health/colorscope-orange/index.html Credits Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Production Company: Nexus Studios Director: Emmanuelle Walker Producer: Greet Kallikorm Production Assistant: Islay Leefe-Griffiths Executive Producer: Chris O’Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso Production Company: Nexus Studios Studio Lead: Elliott Kajdan Art Direction: Emmanuelle Walker Animators: Claudio Salas, Emanuele Romano, Pierre Rutz, Emmanuelle Walker Motion Graphics: Elliott Kajdan, Abel Kohen, Emmanuelle Walker Sound Design: John Black Music: Giacomo Smith

I worked with CNN on their second film for the Colour Scope series. The bar was set super high after the amazing job Moth Studio made on the first piece. Direction and Design by Abel Reverter Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious Animation by Abel Reverter Music by Giacomo Smith Sounds Design by Bryan Stone VO by Dr. James Fox Special thanks to the amazing Katie Menzies, Fabian Friedrich, David Elósegui and everyone that helped giving advice during the process at Pamplona 89. All the episodes at cnn.com/colorscope Client - CNN 2017

https://vimeo.com/channels/colorscope

Scrolling web-animation for DNF

I've been working with Neue on several projects this year and now a new part of my work has been released. It's logo web-animation to the site Den Norske Filmskolen (DNF).

This project I needed extra reinforcement because it needed java scripting, and my buddy Ola Marvin Leier were up to the task. I made the animation of the DNF logo and he did the scripting trickery to make the logo move and behave as we wanted it. When you scroll it activates the animated sequence, and to add some randomness if you reload or explore the site the animation have different states. And maybe the best part the size are tiny, for the animation around 18 KB.

This is a relative new way of creating flexible and tiny sized animations for the web using After Effects, bodymovin and java scripting.

See the logo animation in action here, and remember to explore the site:

Harddrive failures. How I fixed it for free and why the crash it were all my fault

Yes. Long header.

I had a harddrive failure and it were all my fault. I needed som files on a drive that were Mac formated and try to get the files, fast and easy. I thought. I know that Mac partitions aren't easy to open on windows, but everything is possible.

Damn, I followed a stupid tip online that I should just create a new partition in a Windows format. !!!! Don't do that !!!! That didn't work at all. And if I tried the drive on a Mac, everything was protected. I couldn't reach any files. I tried to remove that partition but that only made it worse.

Then I found a program online that were supposed to be able to scan my drive on a windows. Most of them are useless and suddenly I got a failure message in one of them and the whole drive were wiped.

So here's the fix. And it's not solid, but it works. I found online a program called Photorec. It comes with a program called Testdisk. It runs in the terminal on OSX/MacOS, Linux and Windows. It scans all your files and add the files and recover in the correct order where it finds the files in the directory. Some other program tries to collect similar files, like all you JPGs for instance. But that just mess everything up, and take for ever to browse through.

Steer away from Disk Drill, DMDE and I guess more. I've successfully used GetDataBack, but I didn't remember it before I had started with Photorec.

It takes a while for the program to find all the files and it takes for ever to clean up. But the good thing is that I have all my files, and most of them aren't corrupted. Sadly some of them.

OBS! You need a second drive to retrieve your files. Your files are never lost on a drive, but can be overwritten if you use the same harddrive.

See this video if you are unsure how to navigate the terminal.

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Certified Graphic Designer for Filmmaking

I just attended a course in Graphic Design for Film with Annie Atkins. She's a specialist in graphics for filmmaking, which means creating artwork for movie posters, often period films. It can be escape maps and telegrams for Wes Anderson or fake passports for Steven Spielberg.

It course were really fun, and I took some pictures at the event.

It were Grafill Bergen that had the event, and it's an industry organization for anyone working or training in design and illustration in Norway.

Now I'm certified Graphic Designer for Filmmaking, and that's cool :)

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Follow up tutorial and PBR texture freebies

In this follow up tutorial on how to create Object ID for your fabrics, I only use Photoshop to create these maps. This really depends on your source texture and other element if it's easy or hard. Sometimes you need to do a lot of small tweaking to make it work, and here I show you the main principles.

In this follow up tutorial on how to create Object ID for your fabrics I use only Photoshop to create these maps. This really depends on your source texture and other element if it's easy or hard. Sometimes you need to do a lot of small tweaking to make it work, and here I show you the principles.

If you haven't seen Fabulous Fabrics I recommend you do that :)

Poliigon has started creating fabric textures with Object ID maps. They add a more convincing look on your fabric, and they are really easy to create your self. In Arnold render you can connect these to the coat layer in standard surface (Arnold 5) and I really like the result that gives.

You find the free texture pack here:

Repetition

I came across this video on repetition and why we should do it to learn. In school we are often presented with an idea/concept ones. Maybe repeated ones more if we're tested on the subject and no more. That knowledge doesn't stick. So my tip is find resources presented from different angles and repeat. And see this video :)

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