Ziggetai - Veil Of The Gods

I haven't really blogged much for a few months. I've had a few health challenges that demanded I just stick to my day to day work schedule. I'm back on deck now, though still have a little healing to finish.

Nabu Nin Azu. One of the most renowned Mahjeem to have ever worn the red of a master. This is a still from one of the oracle cards included in my upcoming digital deck. He's also a character from my visual novel, "Veil of the Gods".

Inspiration.

By ninjajo art

Inspiration.

”Ceremonial Science Temple" (2022) by Mark Rogers via ImaginaryTemples

Advertising billboard design from the cityscape in Veil of the Gods. I’m working on getting these to appear as though emitting light...

Veil of the Gods is a huge project and I'm so grateful to be able to create it. Here's a new typeface I created for the Graphic Novel and a new depiction of one of the lead characters. Jatta Eye the Poet.

So, for some months now I've been keeping my work under wraps while I’ve been minting NFTs or Nifties, as I prefer to call them. Thanks to the NFT explosion I've been called to explore some exciting new mediums.

If you don't know what a Nifty is, don't worry I'll post a full explanation of this concept later. Let's just say for now that they fit perfectly with the story of Veil of the Gods.

My latest obsession ties in beautifully with NFTs. It is Mocap, or motion capture technology. It's quite a simple process really if you have an iPhone with a true depth camera. Android and the others just can't do this sort of work.

First, I sculpt a character in a 3D modelling programme. Then I take a reference video of my own face as I speak the character's lines. I drop the animation files over the top of the 3D sculpture, render frame by frame, then tidy up the files in photoshop.

After that my partner adds the vocals we've recorded via Final Cut Pro, while I start preparing the next animation. I suppose the tricky bit is digital sculpting, lighting and camera work within the 3D environment. That's taken me years to learn.

Anyway, here's one of the sketches for a character. Stay tuned. He'll be speaking in the next few days. And you might be surprised at how life-like he looks when animated.

Oh, and he’s available now as a rare NFT collectible on Hic Et Nunc https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/568738