Something interesting.

A new warehouse design for Toyota in WA. This consists of over 1200 pallet locations, 3 level mezzanine level. It was a presentation only for visual purposes to allow management to visualize in 3D opposed to 2D CAD drawings.

This took about 3 days to model, approximately 30 hour to render 60 seconds compiled in 3D Viz. I can't remember the polygon count but it was hovering in the hundred thousands.


Please make sure you view this in high quality (push play and on the right is a 'HQ' button). It doesn't give it justice viewing low resolution.

'Here is the Bee hive' is one of the easiest and popular nursery rhymes.

This was 60 second animation project for my 3D modeling and animation class (MIT) that took approximately 30 hours to complete.

It incorporates a beehive and five bees that sequentially fly out from the beehive.
The narrative that I designed around is a 2D style in a 3D environment. The use of a 2D style helps reduce the ‘uncanny valley’ of the characters.

The key elements were the facial expression of the five bees. There was a bit of effort placed in the design of facial expressions as I felt that emotion is felt most in these expressions. Each one has a personality of its own: