The week before Christmas, my cousin Ty (website) was visiting to hang out and talk shop. He’s in school for character animation and I have a background in experimental animation. We decided to work on a short mini project while he was staying and we got right to work on it the day he arrived. He chose the Morpheus rig to use for our main character (why?). This rig was created by Josh Burton (website), he also was our saviour and finding a way to bring the character animation from Maya into 3dsMax.

So here’s what we did!

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I wanted to get outside, get busy, and use my equipment. Found an empty street in my neighborhood and shot angles for photoscan to reconstruct as well as an HDRI with a nodal ninja. Processed it all back at home and dropped some 3d geometry and growing ivy. Wanted to portray something organic against all the brick and concrete.

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I’ve been obsessing over this new software I purchased, PhotoScan. After taking several photos of a place or object, the software aligns features and reconstructs the scene to the best of its abilities. I’m using several photos and PhotoScan to create the image above.

Client mentioned a possible job to do an animated logo intro. I got stoked about it and started working on a version. Here’s a final rendering of the animation in progress!

My sister is a collage artist.  Together we did a little project where she came up with a sketch which I used to make a 3d model, I then passed the UVW texture coordinates to her to collage, finally the collage was wrapped onto the bird and rendered.

here’s the UVW flats that my sister collaged for the texture of the bird

and here’s the sketch that started the collaboration

hope everyone had a nice break and a happy new year.
I was able to pull of this double sided card right before the holidays

along with a video breakdown!

Hey little guys, what happened here.

Did this yesterday. I shot the footage in my apt with a canon hf-100, characters are cg w/mocap, composited everything with after effects. Before I put it all together I worked up a single frame in photoshop and then transferred all the actions to AE. cheers!