Colin James
Cinematics Supervisor at id software
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Love, Death + Robots : Pop Squad FUI Design & Animation

I used an early 80's Smart Home control panel as heavy inspiration for this panel in the car.

I used an early 80's Smart Home control panel as heavy inspiration for this panel in the car.

This was a fun one to create. I used Houdini chops to drive the sound waves, and create a cascading pattern back in time. The design for the wave forms was inspired by the super cool UI in the Fairlight CMI Synthesizers from the late 70s.

This was a fun one to create. I used Houdini chops to drive the sound waves, and create a cascading pattern back in time. The design for the wave forms was inspired by the super cool UI in the Fairlight CMI Synthesizers from the late 70s.

Right before I started diving into work on The Drowned Giant, I was asked by Pop Squad's CG Supervisor, Sergej Eichmann to help design some of the screen graphics featured in Pop Squad. The whole visual reference of the short was Art Deco, which I thought was a brilliant idea from Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson. In the story the characters live forever, and have been alive for hundreds of years, with this secret to immortality having been found at a time when Art Deco was the predominant art and architecture style. You love the music you love, and if you end up living 200 years, you'd still love that music. That's why your grandparent's house still looked like it was from the 60's ( at least mine did! ) 30 years later.

It was a lot of fun mix retro design display technology, but add Art Deco line work and patterns, I felt like that wasn't something I'd seen before and It was a blast to create.

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