3D Visualization: Glass Renders in Cinema 4D Over the past several weeks, I’ve been experimenting with rendering glass materials in Cinema 4D. Below is an explanation of my process. Materials One of the things I learned was the simpler the […]
Daily Explorations: Animated Stills in After Effects For this daily explorations project, I experimented with techniques for animating still images. The main purpose of this was to figure out an interesting way to incorporate stills into my demo reel. All […]
Cel Animation: Animated Alphabet in After Effects In this daily explorations series, I focused on cel animation using Photoshop and After Effects to create an animated alphabet. This is my first attempt at 2D cel animation, it’s a great technique […]
Animated Backgrounds in After Effects Part of my Daily Explorations series, I focused on creating animated backgrounds in After Effects for the past few weeks. To create these backgrounds, I used a simple shape layer (square, ellipse, polygon, or star) […]
Animated Circle Bursts in After Effects For the past several weeks I’ve been getting back into doing my daily creative explorations. Instead of doing one drawing a day, I am focusing on learning more about Adobe After Effects. I spent […]
Life and a Sharpie Being part of the Life and a Sharpie group show is one of those opportunities that gives me a chance to try new techniques and experiment with medium that I would not ordinarily use in my […]
Tutorial: Model a Walk of Fame in Cinema 4D In this tutorial I will teach you how to model a walk of fame in Cinema 4D. The topics that will be covered are modeling with splines and NURBS, creating custom […]
Tutorial: Sketch and Toon | Cel Rendering in Cinema 4D In this tutorial you will learn the process for rendering various line types using Sketch and Toon and the Cel Renderer in Cinema 4D. Starting with the Cel Render effect, […]
University Hospitals Illustration Breakdown Every week while driving to Tri-C to teach, I would pass the University Hospitals building and think to myself ‘I want to illustrate this’. I love the contrast of the big curved elements against the angular […]
One Drawing a Day: Lakefront Restaurant Illustration I decided to take a different approach with this illustration. I started off by importing existing models of boats from 3D warehouse into SketchUp, then building/designing the architecture around the environment. Typically, I’ll […]
