Week 5 of 52: Broken. This was mostly an excuse to play with the physical renderer in Cinema 4D. It really takes a hit on render times, but that was also on a 2006 Mac Pro. I think I could see using this for stills, but not for animation in the immediate future. 

I was also a bit disappointed in the way this turned out. Not my best work, but as they say… keep calm and carry on.

A short (simple) animation I worked on for Marquette University last week has officially been posted.

I wrote up a post over at The Motion League about a possible way to include global & local variables in expressions. It’s just a mockup for a feature request and pretty nerdy.

This is last week’s 52 Works, just a bit late. I started thumb-nailing these last week but only got around to finishing up the artwork in Illustrator last night. These will ultimately be two pictures for our bedroom once we get it painted—which is why they’re shown framed. Some people will get it, others won’t. I haven’t decided what method I’ll use to print them (either digital or maybe screen). So I’m open to suggestions there.

3/52 This is a style of illustration I’ve always liked, so I decided to try my hand at a picture of my wife, Emily. I still want to work on this more, but for the sake of 52 Works, I’m posting it in its current state. (I’ve never been particularly good at drawing, so it’s practice practice practice.)

For months I’ve been trying to articulate a blog post about crowdsourcing and design competitions. This post by Heather Parlato on Creative Freelancer sums up my feelings exactly and offers several suggestions to those considering these contests (especially smaller businesses).

“Falling” For week 2 of 52 works, I settled on this animation (after several false starts through the week). I’ve been wanting to do a series of seasonal identities for a while. With this, I’ve finally managed to start on one. It was a good excuse to get more experience with both Particular and Cinema 4D.

I helped work on the 3D graphics for this video by Jesse Rosten. When he first described the concept to me, I was sold immediately. It’s great to see it come together so well and get so much attention (for the right reasons).

As my first official week of 52 Works, I finally got around to creating this Threadless design: More Pixels. It’s based on an image I made earlier from (of all things) a Twitter conversation. Regardless, it’s up for voting until January 11th, so vote it up, get it printed, then buy it up!