Sketchbook, Inc.

Another Columbia Sportswear animation done in Cinema 4d, and rendered in Vray. This was a modeling challenge. The sheer number of polygons on this boot is out of control.

Columbia Bugathermo Heated Boot from sketchbookinc on Vimeo.

See full Resolution Quicktime version here

Here’s an animation we did last year for Columbia Sportswear. Rendered in Cinema 4d using AR. Water simulation done in RealFlow.

Columbia Omni-Tech 3d Fabric Animation from sketchbookinc on Vimeo.

Here’s another illustration Jason and I we worked on for Columbia. Jason sketched some initial concepts and I helped realize the idea by building these mini 3d environments which show each tread type that is used on Columbia footwear. Renderings were done in c4d using AR3.

My office mate Jason just showed me this illustration we worked on last year for Columbia. They’ve started using it in their catalogs. Not online as of yet. Jason produced sketches at inception, and I modeled and rendered this crazy complex insole. Holes, grooves. Insane! Renderings created in c4d using AR3.

Above are 3 fabric technology illustrations done for Columbia Sportswear. Omni-Shade, Omni-Tech, and Blood-n-Gutts. Jason Laramie created some preliminary sketches for these and I built the rest in 3d. I later animated these 3 fabrics using realflow for the rain and the stain. These were rendered in c4d’s AR3, with GI, and then composited in Photoshop as well as Aftereffects.

Here’s a frame I developed for the opening of a Nike soccer animation we have been working on. I like the way it turned out. More later on this animation.

We recently modeled a high rez Nike Shox shoe for a Nike spot that was created by Ryan Rothermel (Decoy) and Spilled Karma. Linus Jodwalis textured and animated the shoe in Maya. Great work to all!

Nike Mobius Portal from sketchbookinc on Vimeo.

Here’s a rendering of some nike packaging just finished for Big Giant. These boxes are crazy high rez. Built them from scratch with thickness, etc. Renders done in Vray.

Simple 3d animation of a cookware system created by MSR.

MSR Flex 4 Cookware from sketchbookinc on Vimeo.

This project is still being tweaked – but here are some small renders of the progress.

Update:

Busy Busy Busy!

Several new projects.

A couple retail renderings for Big Giant. Almost done with the 2008 chicago marathon space that they built out last year. They didn’t come away with good photos, so I will be rendering the space in 3d. Also need to work on a smaller rendering for BG. This is the second largest retail space I believe I have ever worked on, aside from the Nike Factory store. The amount of product in this scene is pushing my computers to their limits. Vray Proxy objects being used at will!

My goal is to use a lot of this product (which was ported over from c4d renderer), and I will be going back and re-rendering a lot of my old work in Vray.

Also working on a 3d illustration for BSSP in SF. 

On the back burner are a few Nike projects as well, that I probably won’t get to till the end of the month. 

Lastly some wine bottles for Dot Zero.

Will post some images as soon as I have them done.

Final illustrations for Columbia.

Little late, but what the heck.

1. Brand Sketchbook. (have hired an external entity for this, as I am my own worst client)
2. Create a website (flash and html)
3. Design out this blog. Depends on how functional the site ends up.
4. Seek out design focused projects first
5. Learn Zbrush
6. Re-learn actionscript and object oriented coding
7. Start painting again
8. Rig a character in 3d. If you have a character you want rigged – speak up
9. Get significantly better in after effects
10. Ride my bike to work at least once a week (30 miles round way)
11. Sell my motorcycle before I kill myself. Downgrade to 50cc scooter.
12. Exercise an hour a week at minimum

Second set of illustrations for Columbia commissioned through BSSP. These are the sketches which were signed off on. Finals on this are just about done. Possibly getting approval tomorrow.

Here are the finals for Columbia created for BSSP. Hopefully will be seeing these in advertisements going forward.

Ok, here are the 3 final sketches for first half of illustrations for Columbia, as commissioned through BSSP. Next post will be the finals. Check here for more information on what Omni-Shade does. Pretty cool fabric technology.

Got a call the other day from an ex-Character SF employee who now works at BSSP (Columbia’s agency of record also located in SF).

I was introduced to BSSP a couple months ago, as they asked me to resize some animation assets I created for Columbia. Now my old contact from Character works there as an Art Buyer. Somehow she found out I had done these Columbia illustrations and animations, and asked if I was interested in making some new one’s. Yes please. Small world eh?

Timing on this project is pretty tight. I was given a final go ahead on the project early Saturday, and sketches are due on Monday. Fun project however. I’ll take Illustration over 3d rendering any day

Will post some images when I can.

Here are some renderings I finished up before the holidays for Big Giant. Jason Bacon provided me with a base model built in SketchUp for the room layout, as well as as most of the props in the scenes. As you can see the quality of the props are very very low as they were created for use in Sketch Up. This includes the pink people. I’d like to re-render these with high res, textured objects at some point. We just ran out of time and it wasn’t really that important to get the point across.

The structure around the installation I created on my own, and although the bricks ended up being much too large in scale, overall the feeling of the warehouse worked well for the project. Rendering done in Vray.

Here’s a logotype I created for a charity my daughter started recently. The word is Swahili for “Freedom”. I won’t tell you what the word is, because I have been wondering if this logo is even legible. What word does this spell to you? Feel free to leave a comment.