Projects 2021-2022

Showreel

I'll start with my reel to show some projects I've worked on this year.

Crescent

During the pandemic, a few classmates and I started a project called crescent, which is a short film based on the movie Treasure Planet. The project is quite ambitious cause at the start we were with 5 people, which is not a lot for a fully animated short. Because of the size of our group, we decided to give each artist a lot of creative freedom, and this resulted in many different influences and insights for each scene.

For crescent, we needed a hero ship that would be efficient and at the same time has enough details for closeups. I modeled the ship in Maya and used Houdini for the ropes. I used many procedural materials because this is way more efficient compared to the standard UDIM workflow.

Because Crescent is fully CG, we needed a digital character. This was quite the challenge because it is really hard to create a believable digital human. 

 We knew we wanted our main character to be muscular and have a robot arm. So I started blocking out the basic forms in Zbrush. I started with a base mesh on which I added the robot arm block-out.

After I had the right proportions, I started modeling the robot arm. For this I used Maya. 

After making the arm, I continued with the main character. I started really shaping the base mesh into the desired form. And adding details like pores and wrinkles.

For the textures I used a new technique which I saw on texturing.xyz where you project a texture from a face onto your own mesh.

Samurai Monkey

Because I wanted to improve my creature skills and become better at grooming, I did a little side project. 

I started with gathering references of nose monkeys. I used Zbrush to create the shapes. With sculptris I was able to sculpt some details without thinking about the topology. When I was satisfied with the shapes, I retopologized the mesh. After this I started to add more details like scars and skin texture.

For the fur, I used xgen with interactive grooming. I created a base texture in substance painter.