Kai is an English born, New Zealand raised artist working and living in Melbourne. He works on web based animation, music videos, 3D stills, and plenty more. Kai is self taught in all respects of what he does. He is the product of online tutorials, trial and error and the creative people around him.
His work can be seen across the Australian Open throughout all 3 arena’s at the event and has recently produced video’s for Radio New Zealand, Cup Of Kings App, IceBreak and Szymon’s “Blue Coloured Mountain”.
Rubik man is an experiement in branding into blends of 2D and 3D animation. Where hand drawn line work can seamlessly meet 3D rendered animation, sent out with a line work "sketch and toon" processing.
This is an interesting challenge with how to treat motion in 3D to keep that bridge between worlds seamless. 3D so often leaves a particularly digital impression in this 2.5D domain. But we're happy with the outcome of this fun test!
