Concept, not affiliated with Nike · 2022
SwooshBoard
Concept branding and packaging for a customized collector’s skateboard, where Japanese comic art meets 90s street style.
Year
2022
Type
Concept collector’s item, not for sale
Output
Stills, an animation and an interactive 3D model
Tools
Blender
Substance Painter
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
The packaging is clear so the board shows through. Its index of refraction sits close to glass, bending light like glass with less aberration.
Process
Mood board
Japanese comic art, 90s aesthetics, street art.
Modeling
Built in Blender.
Texturing
Substance Painter.
Render
Cycles in Blender.
Composite and edit
Stills in Photoshop; the film in Premiere Pro.
Mood board
The mood boardDrawing · 2400 × 1350
Modeling
Normal and bump maps carry the detail; displacement stayed off to keep render times down.
Clay or wireframe of the boardRender · 1800 × 1200
Clay or wireframe of the packagingRender · 1800 × 1200
Still frames
Complementary color: shades and tints of orange and blue.
The final skateboardRender · 2400 × 1350
Still frame from the animationRender · 1200 × 1200
Still frame from the animationRender · 1200 × 1200
Still frame from the animationRender · 1200 × 1200
Animation
The video animationFilm · 1920 × 1080
Details
- Pipeline
- Modeling in Blender, texturing in Substance Painter, Cycles renders, stills composited in Photoshop, film edited in Premiere Pro
- Detail
- Normal and bump maps; displacement off
- Interactive
- A 3D model on Sketchfab
- Also on
- Behance
