A K A I M P C X
My love for music has been growing since 2009 when I started to make my own songs. Being surrounded with music tools has driven me to be in love with this Akai MPCX. As soon as I saw it, I knew some day I will created it and customize it. This is how this personal project started.
I model, texture, light and animate it in C4D and render it with redshift. I used some vertex map animations for the intro and to highlight the interior pads. How C4D handles huge amount of instances in version 2024 is impressive. So much fun!
For the motherboard I used displacement maps created with some greebles given by Noah Qehzy. Here's his YouTube Channel: ThatsQehzy.
After I create the original model, I decided to try some new skins with a vibrant palette to get this MPC even more noticed and loved, creating a pattern in photoshop for the purple version, and playing with blue tones for the blue version.
Sound design by Yeray Cebral.
Here's the pattern, some Gobos created for the lighting and the vector file for the Pads texture created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
P R O C E S S O V E R V I E W
F I N A L V I D E O
T H A N K S F O R W A T C H I N G !
