Blokhedz animation background – city street
Thought I'd share this background from the chase scene at the opening of episode 3 of the Blokhedz webisodes on www.missiong.com, since you don't get to see all of the graffiti in the final animation.
Blokhedz animation layout – The CeeLo pan, part 2
There were 3 very talented animation directors on our project at emation studio in Seoul, South Korea. I will have to find out who was responsible for this shot. In any case, this is the original layout, which came with a layer which had horizon and vanishing points plotted out. From there I used a wide angle lens plug-in →
Blokhedz animation background – The CeeLo pan, part 1
A Cinema4D render, using the WFCam4D plugin to acheive the fisheye lens effect. The plug-in is a post-effect run from the render settings window. Cinema4D does not ship with a set of wide angle lenses, so WFCam4D was a life-saver during production when we were faced with doing a 180 degree 2D pan. The set is the basketball →
Blokhedz animation background – city chase
An animation background from the city chase section of Blokhedz webisode #3 on www.MissionG.com. Actually the first shot of the episode. Another case of spending time to put some cool throw-ups in the shot only to have them covered by the animation.
Boombox desktop wallpaper – Audio II
Old School boombox from the 1980's meets New School electronic musical gadgetry in the new millennium. This is the concept art for the one-of-a-kind boombox/sound system, Audio2, from the Blokhedz www.MissionG.com webisodes. He is equal parts sound system, DJ setup, recording studio, mixer, sampler, drum machine, sequencer, and multi-media playback all stuffed into what appears to be a →
Boombox soundsystem – Audio II concept art
The one-of-a-kind boombox, Audio2, from the Blokhedz www.MissionG.com webisodes. These are the illustrations I created and gave to our modeler, Michael Gorospe, to create the hero prop. He is equal parts sound system, DJ setup, recording studio, mixer, sampler, drum machine, sequencer, and multi-media playback all stuffed into what appears to be a normal looking radio. Will →
Blokhedz Gatorade pitch art
Pitch art for Gatorade's Mission G website mini-series. A collaboration of course with Madtwiinz, who provided the character. My contribution to this Jam is the background tone and all the trailing paint strokes coming off of Eatho.
Blokhedz animation background – Wild Dawgz turf
Blokhedz Episode 2 animation background. SIE HR, who is currently putting out Liquidteks NY graffiti magazine helped me out a bunch, as did Inkhead, of tagsareknown.com. I was running out of photos of graffiti to use for my texture maps and they hooked me up with the right kind of photos of the graffiti writers I wanted to →
Dungeons of Rap poster
Straight out the ... Dungeons of Rap, where fake (rappers) don't make it back. Well, that's the edited version. We tidied up the words of Nas to get it past the suits, but the idea is the same. Underground rap battle sponsored by Blok Murda Records, the mainstream commercial record company dominating Empire City and the WORLD!
Eazy Eatz
Boy you should have known by now, Eazy Duz it. When it comes to munchin up a lil bit, all the kids say "We want Eazy"
Keep It Moving and Storage
Keep It Moving and Storage has outlets all over Empire City. They rent trucks, sell boxes and packing supplies and have hundreds of self storage units to fit all your short term and long term storage needs. CONvicted? Evicted? Just got too much junk? Call Keep It Moving and Storage.
Juice batteries
Electricity = Juice. Juice = 1992 movie starring Tupac Shakur (and others of course). Tupac = Thug Life. Thug life, sounds like long life, but actually the opposite. So Juice batteries are thug life batteries. Supercharged and temporary.
Badman a Boss
There should be more Jamaican gangster movies in the world. I got a title for one - Badman a Boss. This is a little in-story movie idea for Blokhedz. I made up a bunch of magazine names, movies, products, etc, for the fictional Empire City, home to Blokhedz. The image used in Blak's bedroom is the initial →
Crush Kill Destroy SELF
I did the initial outline for this joint in 2006, and then did the effects in it and the coloring sometime early 2007. I put this up as a poster in Blak's room when we did the formatmag.com desktop.
Nobody Beats the Biz
Empire City's electronics retail giant, The Biz. Pro audio equipment, instruments, software and computer hardware and more for producers, DJ's and musicians of all types. Remember, Nobody beats the Biz!
Kool G Rap
The Kool Genius of Rap, also known as Nat Corona - Author of Ill Street Blues, On the Run, Streets of New York and many many more hip-hop scenarios.- This prolific street novelist has been entertaining Empire City since the 80's.
Cafe Gusto
Ready to win the G? Get Gusto.
Chuck D aka C.D. Ridenhour
C.D. Ridenhour. Popular author and poet. Award winning novels include Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Louder than a Bomb, and Night of the Living Baseheads.
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
The jacket for a book in Blak's library. Many of the books in Blak's room are hip-hop lyric and song title visualizations, takeoffs and parodies. Black Steel in the hour of chaos is a perfect title and the lyrics are epic, no question. If you remember the video, you know it's like a movie already. Real →
Bubble Goose
The Goose is loose and he's poppin off in all directions, and that spells trouble for sucker ducks. The mythical mascot of Empire City's number one bubble gum, son. Bubble Goose.
Bubble Goose bubble gum logo
Bubble Goose bubble gum. In mad flavors.
