Geniiius!
In Geniiius! you can create and share hilarious videos as your favorite pop-culture icons, politicians, cartoon characters and more. I was in charge of creating the environments that these characters sit in.
The environments are based on illustrations by the awesome Dean MacAdam.
I was immediately drawn by the art style and was a good challenge to try and interpret 2D drawings into 3D environments. I had to exaggerate proportions and perspective in order to express the caricatural characteristics of Dean’s art.
Special thanks to Andra Perju for helping me on some of the scenes.
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Filling in the gaps
Translating 2D illustrations into 3D environments was the perfect challenge. It’s something I always think about when designing models.
“Will it look as good from another angle?”
Some scenes use different camera angles inside the same environment, but the reference illustration covered only a single point of view.
For that I had to fill in the gaps and make the models work while keeping their strong comic look.
Animations
All the scenes required simple yet very effective tricks to bring them to life.
Scrolling textures, sprite sheets, particle systems, blend shapes, I’ve used them all in order to have the lowest impact on performance and convey a world that is as alive as the characters in it.
