Tezos Origins

This was an internal follow-up to Tezos Origins, a project originally developed at Black Math. The concept of this piece focused on the ever-evolving nature of the Tezos coin, symbolized by the Ouroboros — you know, the snake that eats itself, but in a cool, blockchain kind of way.

While I wasn’t part of the original team, but I was asked to re-create the piece from scratch, this time with my own style and interpretation. The concept was already there, my job was to bring it to life with a fresh look and some polish. Familiar foundation, different flavor.

Production: Black Math

Design / Animation / Compositing

2023

C4D, Redshift, After Effects

Process & Exploration

The base of each snake was built with a series of nulls connected together with a Tracer, after that the snake scales are spline wrapped onto the Tracer. That way I could position the snakes how I wanted, and could animate them undulating easily.

I’m all for throwing down some keyframes here and there, but when there’s this many snakes and everything needs to loop seamlessly, it’s time for GSG’s Signal (not sponsored). The position of the scales were animated procedurally, each null in each snake had varying strengths of noise controlling their position within a fixed range, and the coin was animated with a looping sin wave.