Paul Hoppe

3D Test Render

Paul — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:04:27 +0000

Lemonade Test Animation

Paul — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:34:13 +0000

For my Intro to 3D class.

Surfing The Nations

Paul — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:45:29 +0000

I was introduced to Surfing The Nations while visiting my brother in Hawaii last summer before starting at Art Center. I got to stay at their facility for free and did some fun design work as a thank you. Custom type from scratch in Illustrator.

3D “Robot” Arm

Paul — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:03:38 +0000

This is the midterm project I did for 3D Motion Graphics. The assignment was to design a “robot” arm, build, texture, and light it in Cinema 4D, then render it and composite it into a scene using Photoshop. As inspiration for my arm I looked at Hubble space photographs, microscopic photography, and diagrams of molecules. My goal was to create something that was ambiguous in scale. Something that could be perceived as large enough to be measured in lightyears and simultaneously appear small enough to be measured in nanometers. For my final Photoshop composite I used a 2 photographs: A Hubble photo of a nebula and a scan of a microscope slide with cell samples.

3D!!!

Paul — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:09:50 +0000

I’m currently in my first 3D class and it is a LOT of fun! Here’s some pretty basic stuff that I’ve been working on.

P.T. Barnum – Exhibition Model

Paul — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:53:14 +0000

The last iteration of the cube designs was this exhibition model created using cut-up copies of the final cube designs and re-imagining them as giant exhibition graphics.

P.T. Barnum – Booklet

Paul — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:49:03 +0000

This booklet was designed using square crops from the final cube designs as an exercise in distilling the 3D, non-linear experience of the cube down into a cohesive book experience.

P.T. Barnum – Cube

Paul — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:40:15 +0000

These projects were all part of my midterm for my Communication Design 2 class from last term. We were all assigned P.T. Barnum as a research subject and were instructed to create a black & white, 3D, designed experience in the form of a 7″ cube. The initial designs were created directly on the foamcore cube by cutting and gluing xerox copies and enlargements. Only after many weeks of design and revisions did we move to the computer to finalize the compositions.

Overall I’d say this class was a really helpful exercise in creating great design out of simple materials and methods as well as a lesson in how to re-think design problems to make new and interesting work.

Silent Film – Chess

Paul — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:30:43 +0000

This film was my midterm project for my Language of the Moving Image class last term. It was a group project so we all contributed but mostly the other two guys came up with the story and I figured out the shots that would tell it best. During shooting I set up the shots, ran the camera, and helped direct the actors. We each did our own separate edit of the footage.

Not perfect, I know, but I’m pretty happy with it all things considered.

Happy Father’s Day!

Paul — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:22:12 +0000