Camper Van
Skateboarding Frog
This is the first scene I put together to try and learn several things at once. If you unmute this video you can hear that I actually went and recorded skateboard sound effects from Skater XL so that it would actually sound kind of correct 😄
I had never actually modeled & tried to rig an entire character like this. I tried to keep the model as low poly as possible because I knew that in the past I ran into a lot of issues with weight painting. This was the first time I got to do this with a freshly rigged character:
The real win here was figuring out how to correctly rig/weight paint these shoes. Also using constraints to get these skateboard trucks to behave the right way.
The first thing I actually animated with this character was just a little loop of him carving. This is still my favorite thing to come out of this project.
Carroll Goalie School
I created the CGS puck logo many years ago, but never really animated it until now. This is for use at the end of social media video uploads.
Honda Motra
The Honda Motra was a short lived Honda motorcycle from 1983. I’ve always thought that this looked amazing in a cyberpunk sort of way, so I decided to model one. At some point I’d like to figure out how to rig the more complex armature of the suspension and animate this.
Suzuki Carry
This small truck is loosely based on the Suzuki Carry. I was walking around my neighborhood this summer and saw this adorable little truck, so I decided to model and animate one of my own.
My favorite weird little details on this truck is that the suspension arms bend correctly – and I figured out a way to get the wheel to deform a little bit when it’s touching the ground:
Pet Portrait Emoji
At the beginning of 2020 when everyone was settling into the long quarantine, I set out to illustrate a group of friends’ pets for use as emoji in Slack.
2D Animation
Traditional 2D animation has always been fascinating to me, and so I spent a couple of months digging into learning how it’s done. A couple of these were done with Rough Animator on iPad, Adobe Animate & Looom.
Small Places
A series of small places. The kebab stand features my friend Ben and a robotic arm grilling kebabs.
Frank
I modeled my cat Frank specifically to be 3D printed. Shapeways does some really nice full color sandstone that worked great for this little guy. Frank is 3″ tall.
Camp Scene
In late 2018, I was asked to model and animate a short scene to be projection mapped onto a massive grain silo in Interbay, Seattle. This was the first big project I ever tackled with Cinema 4D and had a blast figuring out the best way to model and animate something like this.
Yo-yo
I really like yo-yos and decided to try modeling one of my all time favorites, the One Drop SK.
Painting 3
I had never painted anything substantial before embarking on this project. Of course, I had to take the long route and build my own canvases which ended up being a lot of fun. I no longer have the big studio where this photo was taken, but I do miss it dearly.