New Trailer

Updates to an old trailer:

Back in 2024 I created a trailer to an animated feature that did not exist on paper. I’ve since created an outline to the story that did not exist, and subsequently revised the trailer to reflect the story.

The original trailer featured a character named Tadadaho. He is a member of the Onondaga people. His outfit is also a little awkward looking and out of place.

This is the same character, but I renamed him Cusick. And I decided to cover him, as well as the other main players of this story.

This is Aja from the original trailer. She an Indian representing her country. Unfortunately, I could not find enough for Aja to do in this story and had to remove her from the narrative.

This is Nnemkadi. She is part Igbo and part Hausa. She will be replacing Aja in this particular scene.

Here is Aja again. Here she is taking on three airport security guards from the first trailer.

This is Abdo, one of the main characters in this story. He is not only replacing Aja in this scene, but the tussle takes place in a subway station in Brooklyn in order to help move the plot along.

Here is Danylo from the first trailer. He was also removed from the new trailer. There just wasn’t enough for him to do in the plot.

Danylo’s scene was replaced by Cusick.

Lastly, here is Nnemkadi from the first trailer.

Here is Nnemkadi again, but covered and showing a glimmer of emotion. I will post a link to the new trailer later.

Still updating

One day I’ll get around to updating this website into something more legible. But until then, here is my latest touch up.

Latest Update

I used Human Creator to build a brand new model, because I didn’t like the way the face looked on the last one. Other than the shape of the body, the hair, and the look of the sand, everything is virtually the same. I also redesigned the sand dunes to appear more haphazard. I like it this way.

Another update…

I made changes to the lighting and the bikini top. I may try to switch it back. We’ll see.

June 21, 2025.

July 2, 2025.

New Wrinkles to Old Pieces…

December 11, 2024 is when this image was created after a wholesale remodeling and re-posing. The background was re-done and the two lions were re-positioned.

June 21, 2025, the background was again remodeled, but the main character was re-posed and reshaped around the shoulders, bustline and the hips. Also, earrings were added, and the clothes were given new blue material to complement the brown colors throughout the image. I even gave a brown highlight in the strands of hair. And the overhead area lighting was shifted from the right side of the frame to the left, matching the highlight of the horizon. A lot of changes were made in this piece.

Walk cycle study

Here is me trying to brush up on my non-existent walk cycle skills. I should have had this down to a science years ago, but I didn’t practice.

I decided to change another piece.

I’m using the Human Generator Add-on for Blender to see if I could pose a more realistic look of the “Leo” piece. I rendered several different versions of this pose before I decided on something new.

With this render, I removed the blue fade of the sky because it was giving me pixelation issues in my image editing program. Side note: the shoulders and the face were both to awkward looking to continue.

Here, I changed the pose slightly to give a more regal appearance. I Also altered the position of the sun texture to give the halo behind the model, and I changed the texture of the sand a few times (but wasn’t sold completely).

With this final render, I saturated the colors to help the image pop. And after relying on BlenderKit this past week for the sand dune texture, I decided to create my own procedural material for the waves. (This is the image I’ll stick with for now).

Das EFX

Caricature artist Andre Leroy Davis has asked me to create a few animated quick shots based on his previous work. This is one I managed to finish.

Deleted scenes

These are a handful of scenes I created to include in my concept trailer for “They Came For Brooklyn”. But the clips were either dropped from the actual story, or they slowed pace of the trailer. Anyway, I didn’t want to simply hide them from the rest of the world. So, here they are.