Paul Hoppe » Design, Photography, and Video

This is the midterm project I did for 3D Motion Graphics. The assignment was to design a “robot” arm, build, texture, and light it in Cinema 4D, then render it and composite it into a scene using Photoshop. As inspiration for my arm I looked at Hubble space photographs, microscopic photography, and diagrams of molecules. My goal was to create something that was ambiguous in scale. Something that could be perceived as large enough to be measured in lightyears and simultaneously appear small enough to be measured in nanometers. For my final Photoshop composite I used a 2 photographs: A Hubble photo of a nebula and a scan of a microscope slide with cell samples.

I’m currently in my first 3D class and it is a LOT of fun! Here’s some pretty basic stuff that I’ve been working on.