NaEEXUS Sci-Fi Short Film I Directed and Animated
"NaEEXUS", the Short Film I Wrote, Directed and Animated in partnership with Reallusion
My Tutorial Featured in the 3D Artist Magazine #123
3D Artist Magazine Feature ~ My Tutorial in Partnership with Reallusion
Speeding Up Your 3D Renders
A quick Tutorial showing how you can speed up your renders in 3DS Max using the Octane 4.0, featuring 2 of my favorite features: Denoiser and
Home Made Head Mounted Camera
“Never ever be accused of not using your head” Katwe Style… I brought my old home made head mounted camera [...]
Illustration, "Forbidden Fruit"
Video showing my drawing workflow – Children's Book Illustration ~ African Forbidden Fruit using iPad Pro
Boda modeled with Oculus Medium
I modeled this concept boda boda bike during a brain break at work ~ I modeled it in VR (Virtual [...]
Concept Robot Fishing Eagle Drawing, Daily sketch ~ My love for Robotics and wildlife series: I drew this while taking a mental break from animations and editing work on the second short sci-fi film, NaEEXUS II. I was inspired by the majestic Fishing Eagle. I [...]
Macro Photography ~ Bug Study, Canon DSLR ~ I shot these photos with a Canon 7D and a 100mm F1.4 Macro Lens. I enjoy delving into the the life of creatures, in this case, bugs and a snake I saw at a Zoo. There is [...]
Concept Robot Buffalo Drawing, Daily sketch ~ My love for Robotics and wildlife series: I drew this while taking a mental break from animations and editing work on the second short sci-fi film, NaEEXUS II. I was inspired by the African cape buffalo, with a [...]
From Masaka to Miami, Dreams do come true!! So so cool to see my work making its way around the world!! A friend who attended this mocap workshop by Noitom at the Miami Ad School, shared this photo of my home made head mounted camera rig featured as [...]
A quick little concept toon VR Environement before bed ~ long day, but I had to create something fun to get my creative juices flowing ~ I modeled this in VR, using Oculus Medium with Oculus rift ~ its really fun to model in virtual [...]
Drawing and Coloring – Children’s book illustration. A concept design I created for a new kids story for the Nkoza and Nankya app. It’s been a busy week with film direction work, balancing this with creating content for this dream. Never give up on your [...]
My favorite GPU rendering engine is hands down Octane, now in its 4th, 2018 and 2019 versions. It’s made it so much easier for me to light and render the scenes in the episodes of Nkoza and Nankya, and for a number of my cinematics [...]
Concept Robot Drawing, Daily sketch ~ I love Robotics and wildlife, I drew this while sitting with my family sharing stories and taking a break from animations. I am doing this as an exercise to continually put ideas to paper and to use it as [...]
Working on the Second Chapter of NaEEXUS, a short sci-fi film in partnership with Reallusion ~ this was my day today in Noitom Perception Neuron 2.0 Suit, motion capture session: animation refining for 2 new characters and one from the previous film: watch it at this link: www.sowl.com/2019/01/naeexus-sci-fi-short-film-i-directed-and-animated/ ~ I [...]
My Art journey in the Diaspora, From Dream to Action ~ I am finally back to working full time on Nkoza and Nankya, and Painting!! ~ I transitioned from working full time for almost 2 years as the Art Director of a Virtual Reality (VR) [...]
Iron man thinking, Maggots ain’t got nothing on me.. but tyFlow got something on me!! ~ This is my second test with this awesome plugin tyFlow for 3DS Max. I am using the target attraction node and taking the tyFlow worms scene a little further. [...]
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3D modeling, Texturing, Rigging and Animation. Product visualization. Architectural Visualization in form of virtual tours. 3D Content for Animated Commercials, and live action integration
Oil and Acrylic Paintings: Portraits, landscapes, architecture. Character Design, Environment design, vehicle design, Story Boarding, concept visualization, Matte painting, comic book art, children’s book illustrations.
Video ~ Check out this behind the scenes making of the Galiwango film. This was from a session I did with the Mixamo team in San Francisco. I had a wonderful time, and the Mocap team led by Nateon, was awesome and extremely helpful. Thanks Guys!!
A photo Essay of my visit to Ngamba Island, a Sanctuary for Chimpanzes rescued from Poachers and Bushmeat dealers. Click the photo to read the article and view some photos of this beautiful Island gateaway.
