Blokhedz

I have been given the opportunity of a lifetime at ImajiMation studios to be a part of something that embodies two of things that I'm deeply passionate about. ImajiMation is trying to do something that no one has done and that's combine animation with hip hop culture. Blokhedz is the first of it's kind and I'm extremely grateful that I have the opportunity to be a part of it.

Here are the first two episodes







Click here to watch Blokhedz episodes

All of the backgrounds were done in 3D. Much of the modeling and UV layout was done in Maya. Our work flow included creating textures using Bodypaint and setting up materials in Cinema4D. All color and lighting and final rendering was done in Cinema4D.

Below are two reels of the work done on the Blokhedz web series. The first is a 3D background demo reel of episode 2, "Paid in Full". I assisted in surfacing many prop objects in this scene by laying out UVs and creating base textures for select geometry.



Next is a reel of work I did on Blokhedz episode 3. I was responsible for the set dressing of King Tubby's store interior and I assisted in the UVing and texturing of many objects in the chase scene such as the parking structure and some store fronts.



Secret Pilot animation
check it out below

Internet Dating

Below is a 3 minute animated short that I worked on at imajimation studios. The client at the time gave us three weeks to put this animation together.

here is what we were able to do with a three week turn around



here are the characters in this animated short. Mickey is on the top left. Kim is on the top right. Marlon on the bottom right and the customer on the bottom left

D-boy Caricature

Below is a D-boy smoking a Black n Mild. I made his lips big and dark so that it gives him that smoker lips look you see on people who smoke cigs way too much. I have the original sketches next to the finish piece so that you can see the process that I work in. Which is working from my sketch book first, once I'm satisfied with the sketch, then I scan the image and finish it in a program like Illustrator of Photoshop.

Monster BoomBox

This is my second attempted at making a monster stereo. I'm a music lover and I've always felt that my music comes to life though the stereo. So here is a caricature of that feeling. I think this would go good as a Boombox screen saver since it has that feeling of a old school boombox stereo

It would seem that a livid song is playing on the boom box right now.

Sketches

more sketches

College work

My first animated short is something that's
not that great but the effort I put into it makes
me feel that it is

It's call
"Graffitti Vandal Nathaniel"
and here it is

here is some of the pre-production work
from GVN.