vanMinions
Over the course of 2021 & 2022 I worked with my childhood friend Christian van Minnen to create a series of 50 digital works based on the busts he was painting. We met weekly over video chat as we live on opposite coasts and brainstormed the ideas for each one. The creation of these animated busts was one of the most fun and fulfilling projects I’ve ever participated with. Over the course of the project we explored a range of topics a mostly surrounding internet culture, but we also worked in some personal histories and also just reacted to spontaneous ideas. I learned so much and threw every 2D & 3D trick in the book I had at this project.
Process
Each bust was modeled in Maya and then sculpted in Zbrush. Textures were made in a variety of ways but I mostly worked in Substance Painter for the base pass and then animated loops were made in After FX, Nuke, or painted frame by frame in Photoshop.
