Articles andexperiments.

One editable pumpkin, from shaping and carving to paint and candlelight. Follow the tools and experiments behind it.

Why convex outlines, explicit corner edges and inherited surface data help a drawn loop become a clean solid cut.

We borrowed an idea from digital snow. Scrape a patch, control the depth and see what the remaining wall lets through.

The same stroke meets three surface models. See why fixed triangles stretch and one height per column cannot keep a roof.

Pumpkin tools became candle tools. Follow the wax, wick, melting and light problems we found along the way.

Getting a good frame is only the start. Follow the loading, profiling and cleanup work behind DDG, then explore what another engine could take over.

Nine moving blades and layered transmission. Take apart the material behind the homepage iris.

Glass, worn metal and soft growth. Play with keys, a knob and a slider made from generated animation frames.

Early jelly and lettering studies: the references, folds and materials that helped us find the character.

How one eye, a soft body and fourteen acting studies became separate controls for expression and attention.

Choose what each picture should establish, then find out what the reconstruction actually built.

An ear tool needs more than triangles. Give the mesh useful names, then check what those names let us do.

Keep the character’s drawing while separating moving iris and pupil from the fixed opening, shading and highlight.

Old ear coordinates failed on a new body. Measure the attachment and find how far this ear can bend.

A smile is one line. Making it open takes lips, corners, an interior and geometry that can move.

Fit the rig to this body, then measure where its movement stops working.

Look inside fourteen expression studies: their targets, timing and what changes in the live stage.

Notice a leaf, follow it, lose interest. Build those decisions alongside breath, blinks and reactions.