See You at NAB!

From April 20-22nd I'll be in Las Vegas for the NAB Show. For 3 days I'll have the pleasure of being a Cinema4D Demo Artist for Maxon. If you're there, feel free to drop by and watch me work/have fun at Booth #SL1827. Like anyone reads this blog. Thanks Maxon ;)

Cut&Paste 2009 / PDX / Motion Design

Jamal Qutub / Cut&Paste Motion 2009 from Nimpsy / Jamal Qutub on Vimeo. I created this piece for the 2009 Cut&Paste Motion Design Tournament in Portland. Based on the theme: Reflection. My concept was inspired by our current economic crisis and how the 'crooks' involved have to think about what they've done and must one day take a good look at themselves in the mirror.

I had a great time competing with PDX finest, but I'm glad it's over.

How to cut Sushi in 3d

I've been asked a few times how I did the 'sushi cutting' in the animation above so I will try to explain. It's all slight of hand. What your looking at is 3 versions of the same piece of "sushi".

Sushi #1:
First I designed the sushi halves and placed them on top of each other. They almost form a cube. I put each half into their own separate 'null object' to make animating them separately easier later.

Sushi #2:
Then I put them together and combined the outer skin into a single cube mesh. I make sure to keep everything in the same place by putting all my work into a 'null object'.

Sushi #3:
I take Sushi #2 and duplicate it, then add cuts into the mesh which add the tearing effect when the Sushi, overall, is stretched.

I use the same 'deformer object' on all versions of the Sushi to animate the stretching of the sushi. Animating the null I can move them together and jump between animations to create the tear effect.

I hope this helps someone.

Nimpsy Motion Reel / 2008 from Nimpsy on Vimeo. Here's my latest motion graphics reel. I hope you like.

Mutant in Computer Arts

My mutant was featured in the December 2008 Computer Arts Issue (see page 11). Special thanks to Alberto for making it look bad ass ;)

Grammy Museum

The Grammy Museum has officially opened in LA. It's a project I've been part of for the last 10 months and I'm happy is done and rocks.

Here are some links to articles and photos:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/12/grammy-museum.html
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/12/a_quick_run_through_la_lives_grammy_museum.php

I directed and animated the 'Grammy Greatest Music' Hallway Experience and did motion graphics, editing and some interactive work on the 'In The Studio' experiences.

Check it out and let me know what you think ;)

La Muerte Mutant

Alberto Cerriteño rocked my G2 Mutant. It's posted on Computer Love as well. Check more pics HERE. Thank you Alberto!