The background plate was taken during a trip to Peru in November, 2009.
trees imported from Europe and Peruvian mud-soil
This is the original concept sketch (something that I rarely do). The idea of ancient insects and creatures preserved in amber for millions of years is exciting.
sketch 01
Photographing “amber” at home on a window sill. This hefty piece of material is actually resin. Thank you, Gale!
resin
Second sketch was done with quick untextured renders of 3D models to test placement and overall composition. To view some renders of insects form a previous post, click here.
sketch 02
Final composite ready to be taken into After Effects. This is my most complex piece to date, which I greatly enjoyed working on. Next step – building a housing for the monitor (or an animation box, as I like to call them). Stay tuned!
After endless tweaking, here’s the final piece about a “bristly-skinned” creature. Click here to read the folk-tale. The final is in 720P HD quality, 50 sec seamless loop, and, of course, silent.
To view the rest of the videos from this project, click here.
my heart is at the base of a mountain,
my eyes are it’s middle
my thoughts are up on the snowy peaks.
with snow falling gently,
I understand; this is the moment.
A woman gave birth to a creature of the twilight, all splotched and bristly-skinned, which no one could seem to identify. The angakok said: “The Earth will know.” So they killed the creature and buried it in the ground, to learn what kind of thing it was. The ghost came back: a pretty little girl.
rock with a memory the Earth swallowed him up what the Sea brought a blizzard that wears a hunter out missing time a 4.4 billion-year-old Zircon crystal layers of extinction events the spot marks the grave
I am fascinated by the fact that marine fossils can be found in the middle of deserts and far inland on what used to be ancient sea beds. This is a rendering of a fossilized leafy sea-dragon, inspired by drawings of Ernst Haeckel.
40 sec seamless loop, silent
To view the rest of the videos from this project, click here.
this bitter earth the year with no summer a volcano is born in the middle of a farm-field whale fossils in the desert amber deposits from deep underground floating forest in mist ash rainfall
