From digital product to paper art to animated film — exploring story in all dimensions
Kuwahara Explorations
look development
2024
I was working on a story about a musical duo island-hopping across a flooded post-apocalyptic world searching for their perfect drummer. When they finally find one, their chemistry together proves as challenging as the quest itself.
These are test shots of the duo's island studio. I applied a Kuwahara filter in Blender's compositor to soften Cycles's digital edge. Day/night lighting variations require separate node trees—a cumbersome workflow with 1-minute+ render times per frame on a 4070 GPU. Kuwahara’s pretty fast though.
The Eameses never designed a guitar amp or chalkboard table, but I tried to channel their spirit in my prop designs.
These are test shots of the duo's island studio. I applied a Kuwahara filter in Blender's compositor to soften Cycles's digital edge. Day/night lighting variations require separate node trees—a cumbersome workflow with 1-minute+ render times per frame on a 4070 GPU. Kuwahara’s pretty fast though.
The Eameses never designed a guitar amp or chalkboard table, but I tried to channel their spirit in my prop designs.