Creation of a trio of outlaws ahead of their time. A virtual music group turned animated series.
The largest project I've ever been contracted for - to create a virtual hip-hop music group like an outlaw version of Gorillaz. Once the project was completed after 6 months of work, including learning Unreal Engine, I fell in love with the characters and joined the group as the main producer of content of all content regarding the group to keep my vision's integrity.
Learning Unreal Engine (and relearning Blender) meant I had to figure out hundreds of new skills before I even began to attempt animating any scene. Even after using facial mocap and rigging to base UE skeletons, the learning curve sometimes meant spending a week figuring out a single scene or physics control function.
A summarized short story created from a massive project for this portfolio.
From deep thought and research of characters and group archetypes, these first sketches evolved into more than they were ever intended. After the intensive modeling, rigging, researching, and staying up all night these characters turned into real people I believed in and proceeded to take them as far as I possibly could.
What started out as a virtual music group, the characters evolved into an entertaining group of 3 outlaws with structured archetypes and infinite possible storylines.
Please view the Youtube page of much more content I painstakingly created by myself.
Proof I'm human.