Turnabout pickle

Another update on the pickle project!

Today is about concept progression, specifically about my current project, 'Dire Pickle'

It started with the idea of a film noir detective that is a pickle.

I was thinking about concepts for a movie poster composition.
It progressed to a colored graphic sort of piece. I was looking at Dick Tracy a bit for cues on how to handle blacks and colors.

And then I proceeded to a more detailed finished piece, trying to unify the piece by adding green throughout.

Next post, I'll talk about how this idea evolved into a concept for a 3D short.

Summer teaching

Hi, thought I'd post some old stuff.
Last summer I taught some summer workshops for ProjectFun, one of them a new one in After Effects, so I thought I'd share some of the examples I made for the kids. Real rough and dirty, but they show the type of effects/compositing I wanted kids to do in class.



I had developed the class curriculum with middle to high-school students in mind, so when I ended up teaching it to a group of ~8-year-olds I had to change up a lot of the material, but it was a very educational experience.

Quick pickle

Haven't posted in awhile, thought I'd toss up a recent exercise.

Above: the sculpt in Zbrush, then created lowpoly cage with projected normals.