Alexander Darabi BA (Hons) Digital Animation
Second batch of “Crystal” styled text. I really enjoyed thinking about light refraction in this design and how characters would light up with a back-light and crystal like formation highlighted by the streamer. The feedback was enough to really consider how light might behave when falling on an an obsolescent material.
Here are the preliminary sketches for the mapping technique I have developed using Maya. I have also published a step-by-step guide of how to project onto 3D origami surface: STEP-BY-STEP guide
Although this is quite a primitive example, I am interested in persuing some pattern combinations that give a psychedelic appearance when put into motion. I think spirograph looks alot cleaner and nicer when it is a still image. Below is the finished example of the concept art I am putting forward to be animated.
