B.R.A.D. (Brain Retention After Death)
It is the near future. Cryogenic freezing is out. New technologies have allowed for toys from the early 2000's to be retrofitted in order to store the brains of historical figures.
Housing the brains of famous (and infamous) figures can be taxing on pseudo-sentient AI. Imagine switching between the consciousness of Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln, and Elvis Presley in a Jekyll-and-Hyde manner. This results in a robot that is forced to exist in agony until science allows for the brains to be stored and researched more efficiently. A self-destruct button is wielded shut under its torso in fear of the robot becoming fully aware of its situation and slumping into an existential dread - opting to take itself (and the brains of three historical figures) out.
Homunculus Creature
First spotted in the Southside of Chicago, this humanoid creature is believed to have been created from a mixture of thrown-out food, used needles, and DNA of the homeless. Standing at around two feet tall, this little guy is surprisingly fast, even cited as attacking passerby's. Some have tried to domesticate this creature but to no avail. It prefers to live in solitude, being nomadic from dumpster to dumpster.
Based on Krumm from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, this project is inspired by the more bizarre aspects of Igor Kovyalyov's work. I wanted to create something as strange as his independent animation Hen His Wife (1989) was to me. Coated in a prefabricated "Human Belly Skin" texture, this being is better off not seeing the light of day. Its eyes appear to be stitched on. Why? No one knows, and perhaps it's better not to ask.
Blobert
Part of the Kevin the Kid universe, Blobert is the protagonist Kevin's best friend. Being a blobfish living at sea level, he is a derpy pink blob. However, back home, thousands of leagues under the sea, he has the build of a chiseled Greek god.
While conceived in the 2D medium, Kevin the Kid will utilize forms of mixed media. The idea to create a 3D sculpt for Blobert was inspired by close-up, "in-your-face" paintings pioneered by shows such as Ren and Stimpy and SpongeBob SquarePants, and seen more recently in works such as Smiling Friends (with one of my favorite instances being this scene).
Being one of the earlier projects of the semester I hope to one day return and add more detail/textures to really encapsulate the unique skin of a blobfish. I also hope to create a detailed sculpt of Blobert being "pressurized" back in his home world but would need extensive, classical knowledge of ideal human anatomy perhaps only truly understood by ancient Greek and Renaissance artists.
Concept Art and Miscellaneous
