Production Art: The Mega-tablet (Patreon)

I made this goofy over-the-top high tech CG tablet for a momentary gag in the "CD/Color" video, as a shoutout to the YT channel of a masked (even before it was trendy) Japanese illustrator whose streams I sometimes watch while editing.

It's modeled and rendered in Blender. I also drew the illustration of a "chibi" Captain D using Blender Grease Pencil, then artificially placed it inside the interface of Clip Studio Paint (the tool of choice for many manga artists). The swirly procedural background was added in After Effects.

Only now, while putting together this post, I noticed that I totally misaligned the UV map of the tablet's screen, so the image on the display is actually stretched and cut off at the top and bottom in the video!

Gah! There's always some glitch or imperfection that slips through! Oh well, I guess it's not that noticeable. And I fixed it for the attached render.