For the 3D animation assignment, I created a looping GIF in Blender using free, downloaded models from the internet. I call it “Headspace.” It's my brain in my head (brain inside a room with brain texture) with lots of brain junk floating around. …

For my final project this semester, I got to experiment with medium I’ve fallen in love with during my time at NYU: The Risograph! It was first released in Japan in August 1986. …

After 7 weeks of design and preparation, I finally present Galactic Rat in its final form. The Story An NYC subway derailed and blasted off into space, defying all natural laws of gravity! Along with it went four rats that clung to the bottom of the train. …

As I anxiously await the completion of my 3D printed models, I have been working on the packaging! I referenced several “action figure” box templates online and finally came up with a cut-and-fold design I liked. Here’s the first prototype, hand-drawn and cut to test folding methods:

I decided to go with the Jim Sullivan UFO concept. It will be a music visualizer (emphasis on visualizer — I’m not going to trap myself into a full-length music video). The short looping animation will begin with an opening desert scene with a tumbleweed blowing by. Cuts to Jim…

It was love at first sight. The risograph printer quietly tucked away in the IDM print lab. Since my first prints, I’ve dreamed of riso animations. Carefully peppering and printing each frame, scanning them onto the computer, and editing in AfterEffects. …

I changed my design to a space rat! Here are process pics from the sculpt:

Lurking in amongst the Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert, hairy, smelly, glowing red eyes, eight-feet-tall, the devilish humanoid creature is sought after by cryptozoologists from all over. Who is he? He’s Yucca Man. A Brief Historical Background While I could sit here and write out a long, fantastical historical essay about the origins…