Peyton Wicker, Spring 23

Movie Intro Animation

Shep McBond Detective

Shep McBond Storyboards

This movie intro is about a detective named Shep McBond who is up against his arch nemeisis Kitty Galore in an exciting msytery thriller animation.

Shep McBond Assets

The art work was created using the photoshop software, and the typography elements were created using Illustrator. The final product was produced using After Effects.

The main color scheme of this movie intro consisted of black, white, and red, to set the tone and mood for an action-packed mystery film.

Infographic Snow Leopards

Infographic Storyboards

This infographic covers information regarding the Snow Leopards, where they come from, everyday life, and factual statistics regarding the endangered big cats.

Infographic Assets

The artwork was created using photoshop, and the typography was created using Illustrator. The final product was developed using After Effects.

Within each scene, the assets were animated using motion graphics, rigs, frame-by-frame animation, and the After Effects puppet tool. The snow visible in each frame was created using a particle system creating the flowing snowfall effect.

Narrative The Fox and the Flame

The Fox and the Flame Storyboards

A short narrative animation about a kitsune fox with an empty lantern that seeks shelter in the rain, only to encounter a flame spirit that relights his lantern once again, bringing life back to his temple.

Kitsune fox and Flame spirit concept art

The Fox and the Flame Assets

Created in the Photoshop software, which was incorporated into a frame-by-frame animation style. The final production was produced inside the After Effects software.

The Fox and the Flame

Backgrounds

3D Modeled Ramen Bowl

Ramen Bowl Model

This 3D model was created using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Substance Painter. This was created as a low-poly model with the goal of a simplistic art style. The simplistic color palette and style blends perfectly with the low poly model.

Blender 3D Character Sculpt

Character 3D Sculpt

This 3D model was created using Autodesk Maya, Blender, and Substance Painter. The other assets such as the chainsaw and tail were modeled in Maya separately. The Fog particle effect was created using Blender.

Base sculpt character model

Textured Sculpt with fog particle simulation

3D Japanese Garden Scene

3D Japanese Garden Model

This 3D model was created using Autodesk Maya, Blender, and Substance Painter. The wind particle effect was simulated in Maya, while the petal particle effect was simulated in Blender.

Wind simulation created using Autodesk Maya

Petal simulation created using Blender

3D Interior Model

3D Interior Model

This 3D model was created using Autodesk Maya and Substance Painter. The lighting effect was used as the main lighting to illuminate the dark furniture in the room.

The lighting was created using multiple area lights to create a rainbow light source.

This low poly interior bedroom contained multiple textures and lighting to obtain the essence of a darkly lit room.

3D Tea Pot Composite

This 3D model was created using Autodesk Maya, Photoshop, and Substance Painter. This project took a handcrafted 3D model and placed it into a real life scene, with the intent to seem like it fits perfectly.

Illustrations

Illustrative

Portraits

This tiger portait illustration was created inside illustrator using pixels and carefully crafted dimensions. The deep brown and black color scheme of the tiger pairs perfectly with the red gradient background..

This portrait was created inside illustrator and consists of thousands of individually painted pixels to develop the realistic imagery of the child and puppy.

Digital Animal Paintings

This portrait was created inside Adobe Photoshop to recreate a semi-realistic cat. The brush strokes help emphasize the fluffy fur and the color combinations compelemnt the fur patterns.

This portrait was created inside Adobe Photoshop to recreate a semi-realistic dog. The fur texture was done using shorter and longer brush strokes to mimic the different lengths of the dogs coat.

Color Theory Painting

Color Theory

Portraits

The portrait styles each represent the main chlor schemes such as monochrome, split complementary, triad, and complementary.

Design History Illustrations

French Art Nuveau Poster

This 2023 Phoenix Dog Show poster was created with influence from the French Art Nuveau art style. The color scheme was derived from the world famous “Le Chat Noir” poster that was created in 1896 in France.

Book of Kells Illustration

This illustration is influenced by the famous Book of Kells with the Celtic imagery, knotted ropes, and the yellow toned down color scheme.

Ukiyo-e Book Cover Illustration

The focus of this illustration is to represent the famous Ukiyo-e art style that originated from Japan. This illustration represents this style in the form of a book cover titled “Azamuku” meaning “to be decieved” which is represented with the scene on the cover featuring the geisha and the kitsune fox spirit.