Playing With Low Key Lighting Techniques.

Inspiration.

Daniel Torres.

Inspiration.

Kasamatsu Shiro (Japanese, 1898 - 1991)

"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.

Woodblock Print, 38,6 × 26,5 cm.

Threngal Yet, the Beramentar of Fesh. Some would say Threngal is merely a monster hunter who kills for a living. They'd be wrong.

A Beramentar is not a killer. Threngal Yet collects no bounties. He collects monsters.

Huge inspiration.

The Hunted Hunter

Inspiration.

Moebius

So, for some months now I've been keeping my work under wraps while I’ve been minting NFTs or Nifties, as I prefer to call them. Thanks to the NFT explosion I've been called to explore some exciting new mediums.

If you don't know what a Nifty is, don't worry I'll post a full explanation of this concept later. Let's just say for now that they fit perfectly with the story of Veil of the Gods.

My latest obsession ties in beautifully with NFTs. It is Mocap, or motion capture technology. It's quite a simple process really if you have an iPhone with a true depth camera. Android and the others just can't do this sort of work.

First, I sculpt a character in a 3D modelling programme. Then I take a reference video of my own face as I speak the character's lines. I drop the animation files over the top of the 3D sculpture, render frame by frame, then tidy up the files in photoshop.

After that my partner adds the vocals we've recorded via Final Cut Pro, while I start preparing the next animation. I suppose the tricky bit is digital sculpting, lighting and camera work within the 3D environment. That's taken me years to learn.

Anyway, here's one of the sketches for a character. Stay tuned. He'll be speaking in the next few days. And you might be surprised at how life-like he looks when animated.

Oh, and he’s available now as a rare NFT collectible on Hic Et Nunc https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/568738

Inspiration.

Jean Baptiste

So, I've been working on some animations today for Veil of the Gods. The idea is that the graphic novel will be available as a motion graphic book for iPad and Kindle reader. So these short animations will eventually be incorporated into the story. Yes, I'll still do static e-book versions and print versions but this is the direction I really want to be headed in.