An animation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers caricatures performing the intro to their song, “Around the World.” I can’t say the chords the musicians are playing are exactly correct, but they’re actually pretty close. I studied some live video of them performing the song to get the general hand placements for the guitar and bass parts, and the drum part is pretty close to at least one version of how I’ve seen it played.
The inspiration for this project was a video I saw with 3D modeled versions of the animated band, Gorillaz. I wanted the look of this to be what I would imagine a cartoon version of the band to look like. The challenge when modeling something like this, is creating the geometry so that it captures light and shadow in a way reminicent of lines in hand-drawn 2D animation. The additional challenge of this project specifically, was recreating all the band members’ tattoos in Adobe Photoshop, and applying them as texture maps on the 3D models in Maya. While the band members are obvious caricatures, the instruments are allRead More →
Stand-alone renders of the instruments created for the Red Hot Chili Peppers character models (Click either image to open viewer)
