Archive for December, 2010
Merry Xmas from Fun Bits
The xmas card I designed for Fun Bits Interactive (FBi) saw the light of day today on Kotaku.
http://kotaku.com/5714372/santa-the-tsa-and-a-happy-holidays-from-fun-bits
I did have initial concerns about showing Santa having a body cavity search, but I think it’s quite tastefully done. 
The Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ
Based upon another illustration I did a ways back, I thought it would be nice to animate this in 3DS Max. It took a day to build, texture and animate but another full day to render it. I just wish I had the processing power to add caustics to the scene, but ho hum.
Oh. And if you think the mouse heart is far too big for the scene, that’s because all of this takes place in a shoe box.
Modern Automata
Found this beautiful modern automaton on You tube.
The French poet and notorious absinthe drinker Paul Verlaine sits in the late night Parisian cafe sipping his “Humble Ephemeral absinthe”. No words flow from his quill. It’s nearing closing hour and through his blurred vision the Green Muse appears to him offering inspiration and a kiss…
As he begins writing, a cool breeze is felt and the image of his dead friend Arthur Rimbaud appears seated next to him, but its not possible he died years before from an abscessed leg! A last sip of absinthe peels the face away from the apparition revealing a smiling death’s head. He knows his bitterness and loneliness will soon be put to rest in a final slumber…………….