With graduation coming up in the next few weeks, I'm taking the last final moments to wrap up any work that has been hanging in what I like to call my "Half Baked" category: composite pieces that either didn't seem to come together quite how I wanted them to in the past, or work that just got put on the back burner as school and other freelance work got pushed to the front.
This week's back-burner piece is this Mad Scientist piece I shot pieces for this past September. Initially geared as a straight character piece with my friend Teddy Ge (who happens to be an incredible painter and fashion designer, check out some of his recent work here) as a mad scientist creating a Frakenstein-esqe monster. I had envisioned a a scarred-up monster with a brain floating in a jar, pieces on skin stitched together, lying on a table beneath Teddy. But after shooting all of these pieces individually (Teddy at my studio in Denver, the monster back at home in Kansas) and starting to mash them all together in Photoshop, things just fell flat for me.
After letting the idea simmer in my head for a few months, I've re-geared my concept for Teddy's portrait into an over-the-top battery ad featuring tesla coils, robot arms, and a ton of lightening-y goodness. With this revamped focus, I'm dipping my toes into the 3D realm by trying out some 3D modeling and rendering, something I've been itching to do for a while but never have made the time to do.
Please excuse my sketching skills, there's a reason why I click a shutter!
After a whole day of pounding espressos, head scratching, and a uncountable number of profanities mumbled to myself, I have managed to create what you see below: a whopping five shapes somehow mangled together to slightly resemble my sketch from above.
Rough draft of my tesla coil 3D models created in CINEMA 4D
Check back in soon to see the finished product!