I-scream. you scream. We all scream for ice-cream.

In honor of National Ice Cream Day, we want to share the secret recipe of how we build our first little friend in our first blog post ever. 

Inspired by the art form Kawaii(It rhymes with Hawaii) we dreamt this up because, as ice-cream aficionados, we absolutely had to celebrate July 19th; a day officially decreed National Ice-cream Day back in 1984.

​Here’s how we did it:

1. Quickly produced this by, first, purchasing an ice-cream model from TurboSquid. 
2. Modeled and rigged out a face (eyes, nose, and mouth) in Maya followed by exporting the 3D animated assets into Element3D, a plugin in AfterEffects that allows 3D geometry to be lit and textured within the program. 
3. ​Rendering was super fast which is one of the reasons we enjoy using Element3D. 

Overall, this little guy took us about 5 full days to build, animate and produce. To celebrate this wonderful day we busted out our best 3D artist skills to create this popsicle and a whole line up of diverse popsicles, coming soon!

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Enjoy!