l.o. 5: 3D art

louie zong is a los angeles-based multidisciplinary artist working primary in freelance animation and instrumentation in jazz, pop, and blues. he uses blender, a free and open-source 3D creation software, to make music videos that feature lively, fun, and sculptural animations that are synced to the waveforms of their corresponding audio clips. (watch: quack!, elephant memories)

louie’s background is in 2D story art and illustration for children’s cartoons, and the color and textural style of his 3D work maintains those visual anchoring. because blender is meant to encompass the entirety of the 3D animation pipeline, I assume that he first models figures and then motivates them in a video editing format.