Categories: Feature

Step by Step: Locked and Loading

We are thrilled to bring you the work of David Brodeur, otherwise known as Locked and Loading, for this month’s Step by Step profile. David is an insanely talented designer and animator with a strong emphasis in the photoreal and all things C4D.

You can find much of David’s work on the Locked and Loading Instagram which boasts a whopping 70K followers. Here David posts daily exercises which change each month based on the theme. Outside of his strong personal practice, David is a professor at Ringling College of Art and Design and has a significant role within the Greyscale Gorilla community.

In this month’s Step by Step profile, David takes us through his process in creating one of his most popular animations “The Buoy” which has amassed almost 1 million views!

Enjoy!

Tools:

Maxon Cinema 4D
Greyscalegorilla HDRI Studio
Greyscalegorilla HDRI Link Tag (Coming Soon)
Greyscalegorilla Signal
Duel Graph
HOT4D
Octane Render
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop

Joe Donaldson

Joe Donaldson is a director, designer, and animator who worked on Motionograpgher from 2014-2020. Previously, he was an art director at Buck. Over the past decade, he's lived and worked in Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles and has directed work for clients such as Apple, Google, Instagram, The New York Times, Unicef, Etsy, and The New Yorker. In addition to his creative work, in 2018 he started Holdframe. He's now working as a professor at Ringling College of Art and Design and when not teaching he can be found spending time with his family or out running.