Monsters University Animation Progression

Disney Pixar is one of my all-time favorite companies. They posted this process piece on Facebook today. Love it.

Story Development

Art Department

Modeling

Layout

Animation and Simulation

Lighting/Final Frame

Hermit Crab in Mouse Skull

Hermit Crab in Mouse Skull

I really don't know what my problem is. I get something in my head, and I feel the need to quickly realize it.

The Strange Process
I was thinking of hermit crabs this morning after hearing them mentioned on the radio, and started thinking of strange objects they could take over as their shell. I thought it would be really interesting if it took over another animal. I figured a mouse was small enough for them to occupy, but it would probably have to be its skull, instead of its carcass. Yes, very strange indeed. A look inside the mind that never turns off.

Hermit Crab in Mouse Skull Mock-Up. wdsiemer ii

Davention: Deconstruction/Construction

Davention: Deconstruction/Construction
Based on the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci

Went to Goodwill, found an old alarm clock, took it apart, reconstructed it, and made a new design out of it. Giving new form to an existing appliance much in the same way a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Alarm Clock I bought from Goodwill. wdsiemer

Starting to Deconstruct/Construct. wdsiemer

An illustration used in a design close-up. wdsiemer

What Cube?

What Cube?
from Discovery Album

An old project. Made a plaster cube, and rounded it with a file until it was a sphere. Tedious! Carved a detailed geometric pattern into its surface. Rolled it around for a little while...

Now it sits in a secret location in the woods waiting for a kid to stumble upon it and believe they discovered a treasure. That's the true beauty behind this piece.

Being plaster it may have just absorbed into the earth. That is fine also.

What Cube? Process of plaster cube to sphere. wdsiemer ii