Joseph Brandenburg
Technical Artist
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Grow Goodness Books
Below are some illustrations from my time at Grow Goodness. All of these products are available on the Grow Goodness website and Amazon. They are special books designed to be easy for children to read without help from grown-ups, as soon as they know their letters and numbers. I was responsible for the art, video…
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Treehive
Treehive is my photogrammetry project. All of these 3D scans are my own work, and you can find links to purchase the textures and 3D models on my gumroad. Photometric Stereo Experiment by NodeSpaghetti on Sketchfab Free Sample! https://treehive.gumroad.com/l/e-stafford-young-maple-1
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Procedural Shell Generator
This is a procedural shell generator I made recently. I was inspired by one of those videos of snails eating cucumbers, and I was gonna make a 3D sculpt of a snail and ended up being so interested in the way the shells look that i never got around to it. Both the geometry and…
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Maya Humanoid Autorig
This is the autorig I am currently working on in Maya. It is the basis for the rig in my FIEA capstone project, Everent. I began work on this in order to develop an intuition for how to design a large, scalable, and efficient Maya library that is suitable for use with my Mantis software.…
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Monarch Butterfly
This was a one-week project. I made the character in 3DCoat, did the retopology in Blender, and made the texture for the eyes in Substance Designer. The milkweed plant was modeled in Blender, textures created in Krita from public-domain photographs. The milkweed plants were modeled with some plant-creation tools I made with Geometry Nodes. Finally,…
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Mantis Rigging Nodes
Mantis Rigging Nodes is a revolutionary new way to build rigs. It is a node-based, declarative rigging system that allows the user to build reusable rigging components and compose them into a full rig. Click the video below to view the Mantis Rigging Nodes reel and see the work of many Mantis users. Below is…
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Blender Facial Rig for Grow Goodness
This is a Python script I developed while working for Grow Goodness. It’s a geometry-agnostic auto-rigging solution for mouth and eyes of any kind. The rigger only has to make a few “guide meshes” and the script builds everything from there. It’s a bone-based rig, there are no shapekeys. The rig is designed to match…
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Maya Book Rig for Stick To Manual
This is a rig I created for Stick To Manual, the short film I made with a team of about 15 people during my bachelor’s degree. Take a look! The rig is created by a script I wrote using Python. It was a lot of fun to learn and put together. It took a lot…
