Temperamentos Blog

Temperamento ♥♥♥ Stop motion

2012-04-10T23:47:00.001+02:00

Do you know what I love most about stop motion? It gets the job done. Fast. If you want maximum impact on a minimal budget go for stop motion. It's not easy to fail, trust me, the most banal and stupid animations looks cool. Of course it helps if you have great apps like the simple but yet amazing Stop Motion Recorder to aid you in your Lynchian nightmares.

Here are some of my dirty little movies done in under than 1 minute each.

Temperamento ♥ Cinemagram

2012-04-05T22:52:00.000+02:00

I'm totally hooked on Cinemagram, a very clever way to give life to your pictures (iPhone only). You basically shoot a very short 2-3 second movie and mask out the area in the picture/movie that you want to be untouched or "animated". The rest freezes giving you a very dreamlike mini movie.

A bit tired of Instagram and want more action? Then this might be your cup of coffee. Or tea. Whatever. I love it! Here are a couple of my own that I really enjoy watching. My alias is jean.magoo if you want to hook up.

Flowery

Created with cinemagr.am

Greenery

Created with cinemagr.am

Airplane Symphony

Created with cinemagr.am

Error.r.rrr

Created with cinemagr.am

Life, work and a concept for a iOS music player

2012-02-12T15:01:00.000+01:00

You know what? I have a job nowadays. Yes. A regular job, you know a place were you go to every day, an office, fellow workers to talk to during coffee breaks, all that kind of good stuff. I just got fed up with all the freelance nut circus, good bye I will not miss you. Well kind of. Me and my wife still do freelance work as Espace777, that one is to good to be put away for good.

Anyway, my first two weeks have been great, all I have done is learn a lot about how to make pixel perfect graphics for mobile devices and the web. So here some screens for a make believe music player that I dubbed "Collections".

Hm I wonder what kind of music he likes?

Track mode. If you click the active current album you will get here. Jooooy!

Webdesign for Appanero

2012-02-01T13:53:00.003+01:00

Hello good folks. In addition to redesigning Appaneros logotype I also was entrusted with redesigning their entire website. I must say, I'm very happy with the end result. It resembles the ideas I had with the logo nicely. Easy one of my best web designs ever.

Jaktappen - New iOS app for Appanero

2011-12-20T22:15:00.001+01:00

If you like to hunt small little furry things and have an iPhone I think this app is for you. And I think you have to live in Sweden, at least this version is in swedish. So all you high tech loving swedish hunters out there, buy this. I designed it. It's good. It's beautiful. And (wouldn't you know it) it's also very useful!.

Check it out.

iPhone App for Fjällräven

2011-11-11T21:52:00.001+01:00

UI Design á la Fjällräven

Finally I say. Finally. After being delayed I don't know how many times by Fjällräven themselves (don't ask me why I will not tell you), the official Fjällräven iPhone app is out. It's basically exactly the same app as the one I did for Naturkompaniet but with a different costume. And you know what? It's free. Hooooray. The extra cool thing about this app is that it's going to be released in several other countries compared to the Sweden exclusive Naturkompaniet App.

Damn it where did I put my car? Oh look there it is.

Motion news graphics reel 2011

2011-11-05T14:05:00.003+01:00

From time to time I do freelance work for Sveriges Television (SVT). Great place, great people. It's really cool to work with news graphics, you really feel that the work you do matters. Often you only have a couple of hours to do the graphics, animation and rendering so you have to be smart about the decisions, specially take it easy with a lot of filters in After Effects that can take forever to render. I always try to do most of the styling in Photoshop in matters of looks, that helps a lot.

Grading for Allt för Sverige

2011-11-02T13:41:00.002+01:00

I did all of the grading and color correction for the first episode of SVT's Allt för Sverige.Watch it here if you fancy.

Grading for 4 Stjärnors Middag, Kanal 5

2011-09-27T14:46:00.000+02:00

I have been given the great opportunity to work with a TV show called "4 Stjärnors Middag" for Kanal 5. I do all of the grading and mastering of the show. It's pretty hectic, four 23 minute programs per week maybe doesn't sound much but in the world of online grading it's a lot. It means going thru a lot of footage, fixing the levels, colors and putting on the finishing touches.

The show is about four swedish celebrities (new ones every week) coming together and trying to impress each other with cooking the most delicious meal they can think of. They have a professional chef that helps them but really it's not about fine food it's more of a conversation show.

From a graders perspective it's pretty challenging with a lot of different indoor scenes with pretty bad lightning and mixed lightning. And then there is the fact that you have to finish four episodes per week so there is little time to do fine detailed work. You have to find a middle way between what you want to do and what you really can do.

Another very challenging issue is that because of a tight schedule I have to do all of the grading and mastering within Avid Media Composer. So it was just a matter of learning it the hard way, I did a couple of great tutorials but really the only way to learn is to dive in with a good sense of bravery and just do it. It also helps if you are surrounded by very professional Avid users that can help you with all of those strange things that Avid does so different from say Final Cut Pro.

Here's some screens from one of the episodes:

Coloring and title design for Thelma/Louise

2011-09-22T13:55:00.001+02:00

I spend a couple of months between the fall and winter of 2010 @ Thelma/Louise doing things like graphical packages for TV, coloring and motion design. One of the projects was a movie for Borås Komun done to promote the city. The project was finished recently over a year later, they wanted to put in some additional summer footage. I used Apple Color for the coloring and After Effects for the very simple titles. Funny thing was that from the beginning of the project they were looking for a more cutting edge style so my first attempts were very different from what you see here. I will later on occasion publish these tests so you can compare.

New logotype for Appanero

2011-09-08T21:47:00.001+02:00

My redesign

Appanero is an app making company based in Uppsala, Sweden. They are the ones responsible for Naturkompaniets Friluftsapp wich I did all of the graphics and art direction for.

They asked me to redesign their website and logotype. Below here you can see the old version of the logo:

Old version of logotype

Here's my new version in some variations. I wanted to highlight the word App and the easiest way was just to use two different colors.

Variations of the same theme

And as more and more these days, a version of the logo with a bit more finish to it in the rendering:

Enhanced version with light effects and texture

Newsgraphics for SVT - Hooligans!

2011-09-05T13:51:00.000+02:00

Sayonara. I'm going to start posting some of the screens and animations that I do for SVTs news shows, Aktuellt and Rapport. These graphics were for a news story about the increasing problem with hooliganism within elite swedish soccer. I like to work with rusty colors, it's one of my favorite color palettes and it goes well with news graphics. All images are courtesy of SVT.

iPad Magazine production

2011-08-11T21:26:00.001+02:00

The moment I realized how incredibly cool magazines can be on the iPad I said to myself: I have to learn how to do that. Everything I have ever learned has always been out of a pure drive of curiosity and the possibility to make something great. First I had to get an iPad of course. Done that now. Felt good.

My background in editorial design and all my experience with motion and animation makes a pretty explosive combo for digital publishing I think.

The tools are out there, you only need Indesign CS4 or CS5 and a plugin, I'm using Mag+ from Bonnier (giant swedish publishing house). It's free all the way up until you decide to publish and send it up to the App Store. Really smart move from Bonnier I salute them.

So right now I'm learning the tool, experimenting and dreaming of publishing a hybrid between music, animation and great design. Just need to get the money for it.

Here just a couple of very fast first screen shots from a test I did today.

Super fun jobs

2011-07-22T15:44:00.002+02:00

It's 25 degrees Celsius outside so why do I sit here in front of my computer? I'm deeply disturbed that's why. No that's not the case. I'm just happy to be living in the first world and being able to connect my iPhone to my Macbook and write just these words exactly here.

From time to time, when I get desperate enough (life as a freelancer is not easy my friend) I go out on the big interweb and search for more stable jobs. I thought maybe it would be interesting to have them all in one post just for fun. Or just good old self promotion babble.

1. Super fun job as iPhone and iPad childrens app graphical ninja.

I got so excited about this job that I even did a little self promoting video. Sadly I didn't get the job. Little did I know at the time, that I no more than a year later, would be making me own childrens games for the iPad. Lesson learned: One gets what One wants. Just Focus. Yes.

2. Super fun job as UI designer at RIM Sweden.

Also a very very interesting job, working at RIM Sweden dreaming up new crazy app designs for Blackberry smart phones and tablets. Actually, I got an job offer but we couldn't agree upon the terms, first and foremost the job was in another city far from my son and wife. Not happening.

3. Digital designer at Fantasy Interactive
I really didn't have the time to do a proper work sample, I was in the middle of both the Naturkompaniet app and the production of the latest Biolamina movie. I thought what the heck I'll see what I can put together in just a couple of hours. Didn't work out with the job but I'm really happy with the color and theme not bad for a couple of hours work.

I hope you did enjoy this little round up. Now, I really need a haircut badly, so long amigos.

Naturkompaniets Friluftsliv app finally out!

2011-07-14T15:46:00.002+02:00

Finally it's out and it seems to be quite popular, nr 1 in the Swedish app store under the category Navigation. Sweet. It's my first attempt at app design and the first time I really done proper GUI design. It was a lot of fun and also difficult but very rewarding to see that folks enjoy it.
Download it here!

App design for Fjällräven and Naturkompaniet

2011-06-29T14:16:00.000+02:00

I'm very excited about this, we are finally reaching the point of releasing apps for both Fjällräven and Naturkompaniet, a project I have been working on since beginning of May. Who are we? Appanero are responisble for building the apps and Temperamento for all of the UI and design elements.

I think both apps have good potential of being quite popular, they have stuffed together some really nifty tools for outdoor trekking and adventure.

Stay tuned for more!

Research in Motion App Concept

2011-06-13T13:03:00.001+02:00

This was a concept that I did for a job interview not so long ago. The assignment was to create and design a new concept for a music app for the new Blackberry tablet, the Playbook. They were really happy with the end result.

@ SVT Nyhetsgrafiken

2011-06-11T07:56:00.001+02:00

Greetings summertime! I have the fine luck to be part of the team behind the news graphics over @ swedens biggest TV channel, the great SVT, working with Rapport and Aktuellt. I'm there as an substitute over the summer and then some odd days here and there. Suits me perfect actually.

It's very different from what I'm normally used to, the tempo is very high and you have (if your'e lucky) three hours to make and render the news graphics for that day. You really have to stick to the first best idea that strikes you, there is no time to do tests, sketches, moodboards etc. Those kinds of things have no place @ a news service. Really excited to be there.

I'm going to edit a news graphics reel when I have collected enough of the good stuff. Now go and watch the news!

Apptastic Fantastic

2011-05-03T20:56:00.000+02:00

I'm happy to announce that I am now in the app making business. I was going thru a minor crisis here recently, due to overconfident and other factors. Anyhow, there I was, no work and a lot of stress and it forced me to start thinking in new ways, how to survive and how to make new business. I said to myself: I can make apps! Or at least the graphical side of it. Yes!

So I found this list of companys making apps here in Sweden. The thing I did was compose a straight forward email saying stuff like "I'm a experienced art director, animator etc etc and now I'm looking for more freelance work etc etc"…

I have only reached the letter M in the list but already I have started working on apps with two different companies and two more are on the way. I'm really happy! And it shows that you really can do anything you set your mind to in life.

So this summer look out for some awesome looking apps coming your way!

Evolution of a logotype aka the great grey hair making machine

2011-03-16T20:53:00.005+01:00

I recently finished doing the graphical package for the TV-show "Huset fullt av hundar" for Thelma/Louise. I actually didn't do the last version of the logo, the one with the nice 3D rendering effect. I thought maybe it would be interesting to show the evolution of a logotype from drafts to finish, from joy to frustration, from happiness to grey hairs and back to happiness. A sort of happiness. Or is it just conformity? We will never know.

The TV-show is called "Huset fullt av hundar" and it's about familys getting their first dog. I think. Nothing was filmed when I started the project. You just have to have very big imagination. I invent TV-shows in my head all the time.

They asked me to do two, three different versions, they all had to have some kind of Disney thing going on. Feel happy and stuff like that. Ok.

Logotype 1 version 1

Logotype 2 version 1

Logotype 3 version 1

This was the first load of logos that I showed in house to Thelma. After some feedback I went back and continued working with a few details. They seemed to like Logotype 3 the most not at all my favorite one at that time and moment in space. I did a new version of Logotype 1 (the one I liked the most):

Logotype 1 version 2

I also did a completely new one (the one below), don't ask me why I really don't know. I think I was inspired. Silly me. They wanted more Disney I think.

Logotype 4 version 1

Logotype 3 version 2 aka Super Disney Madness

They liked Logotype 3 version 2 but they didn't like the top were it said "Huset fullt av", something about it being to hard to read on very small TV screens. I thought to myself doesn't everybody have 52 inch Plasma Screens nowadays?

Logotype 3 version 3 aka The Multi Colore Sessions

Final vector version of the logotype before 3Dfication

Finally after I think almost 2 months of work and a couple of more grey hairs I did the last vector version that was then sent thru a 3D program to add that very nice glossy look aka the Cars Logo look that they really really wanted.

Final extra glossy version of the logo going 3dfication on your ass! Nice work guys!

So what did I learn from the process? That penguins are cool, dogs are smelly and it is good not to take one self to damn serious all the time. Saves a lot of grey hairs I'm telling you.

Watch the very nice intro sequence made by the good folks over @ Thelma/Louise.

Airing on SVT Play.

A new look for Temperamento.net

2011-03-05T22:49:00.001+01:00

So I got tired of the old one (big surprise) and felt it was time to update everything a bit. I wanted it to feel more like something I myself would like to visit, more of a blog theme with big and beautiful type in it. I'm really a big Rapidweaver fan, in my eyes it's the best WYSIWYG website creating tool out there, it's just amazingly easy to create beautiful and yet advanced websites with it. I fell for Elixir Graphics gorgeous Write theme, it has just the right mixture of elements that I enjoy in a theme. All and all i'm very happy with the new design, it's big and bold!

Check it out!

Inception Goooogle

2011-02-17T07:42:00.001+01:00

Here's two thoughts for you this morning:

1. Inception Google. You can search within a search within a search. Google. Gooogle. Goooogle. I don't even want to know what lays within Gooooogle. My god 4 levels down.

2. Facebook AI. We are busy people. We don't have the time to update all our social networks (FB, LinkedIn, Twitter). Build an AI that knows you and randomly writes stuff that only you would write. And then sends pictures of you taken from face recognition surveillance cameras all around the city tracking every step you take. Joy.

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Finally I got my sh™t together…

2011-02-03T20:42:00.001+01:00

Yes, after a long time in the oven (far to long if you ask me) I finally took the time to finalize my 2010 showreel. Like a half year to late but ok who's counting anyway? It's like the best of the best of my freelancing during 1 year, I like to keep them short and intense so it runs just over 1 minute.
Includes work for Thelma/Louise, EA, DICE, Filmtecknarna, House of Radon, Biolamina, Ericsson, Filmic Art, DCAP WON and others.

This is what happens on boring days…

2010-11-27T10:20:00.000+01:00

I was fooling around with Trapcode Horizon on a boring work day and suddenly this happened. I guess it was there all the time lurking, waiting…

She really couldn't stand it anymore… (animated tribute to Jan Stenmark) from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.

Instead of a boring letter

2010-11-22T20:47:00.000+01:00

I put together this little presentation about myself instead of writing a boring letter recently when I applied for a job. It sounded really fun, the work was to design childrens applications and games for the iPad and iPhone, something I have been wanting to do for some time now. And no, I didn't get the job but hey you can't win them all. Jessss.

What I Like (animated presentation) from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.