A collection of icons which I create in Cinema 4D and then bring into Illustrator CS4, where I turn the entire scene into vectors. Time consuming… yes, but it reduces the file and makes it customizable for use. I submit these to iStock where I get a portion of the proceeds. The images are a little dry and sterile, but the process is cathartic. Click the page icons to see others in the same collection.

Other male+female icons:

This is where I kicked it up a notch. This is a rendered 3D movie, which I edited down and brought in frame by frame. Due to size constraints I had to keep it short. At the time we were going with pink as the online signature color. We connected the banner to directly connect to the archived tune. The client really liked this and had me do another which you can see here.

Hagmann/Landau is/was a small commercial production company. I really liked this client as he let me get on with my job. We first began with some image ads and worked up from there, pretty soon I was recreating the image of the company. The final piece… the logo.

I always examine some sort of typographic interaction when I design logos. Some on a flat plane and some in 3D, when it works it’s amazing, otherwise I just crunch up the paper and move on to the next idea.

The Manhattan trip for this piece had expired so I took the color of the Jaguar and used it for a color palette to create a 3D abstract background using Cinema 4D. I had fun working with the subtle colors and getting the lighting to work with the body light on the car’s body. This was the first time I incorporated 3D in my print work.

This piece is part of the automobile series.

More pages from this project.

This is a final render of a collection of 3D cultural icons I’m working on for istock.com. The idea is to produce a collection of elements that could work well for a publications art director. Lot’s of white space for text with just a hint of color, almost hand-tinted.

This was a quick turn-a-round project for KCRW to promote their Lexus giveaway sweepstakes.

I retouched the photograph to give some extra kick , by increasing the contrast and playing with the color. I built the road sign in my favorite 3D application. and fused it all in Photoshop™.

This is a series of 4 targets + arrows icon/illustration I’m doing for
istock.com.

I concept out the piece on a sketchpad, then I use Adobe Illustrator™ to draw the outline of the elements. From there the ‘elements’ are imported into Maxon Cinema 4D™, modeled then rendered. The rendering then goes back to Illustrator for tracing and color

The result looks very convincing as a 3D rendering but is in fact vector. The look is stylized and iconic. Great for raw editorial and esoteric concept layouts.