Portfolio 2023 Daphné Joguin

   "10pm in the used book shop" from this illustration drew by Demizu Posuka I made a small paper world all in 3D for my graduation final project. 

Animated version of the final render

Ready to see more? Let's go! Have fun!

I asked children about what the little cats were thinking or saying! They were more positive than me haha

       L'art fait l'histoire - Art makes History

I just wanted to write something here and I choose those words ^^

I wanted to say something like Art is a snapshot of our world at any time and any place through legends or other stories. :)

   Doing all this paper was very interesting and fun to do as is was doing some tricks to model the paper material with planars, cuts and pastes, retopo tool, bending tool... It was like doing real paper art sometimes ^^.

The UVs were the easiest thing I did since it was only unfolding! The hardest thing was maybe to do the smallest bevels of the details.

Here is the process :

> Analysis of the illustration (what can I duplicate ? What can I re-use from one house to another...)
> Place Holder with all the components of the image, almost only primitives
> Blocking "rlo" in different scenes and import as references in the main scene to replace the Place Holder
> Details of all the different referenced scenes with a "Hi" version and UVs
> textures in substance painter for the books and the small props (seemless textures and instance materials in unreal for the paper, metal, cardboard...)
> rigging and animation of the characters, river (just a plan with a bend referenced 40 times), plane and watermill imported separately.
> Lighting and rendering with Unreal

   Mandrin Gaudez, former environment artist at Illumination studios, helped me to maintain a certain high standard throughout the modelling process.
    I learned the rendering in Unreal Engine 5 with this project and I want to thank Clément Chamard and Jefferson Bacquey Habrylo for teaching me the process.

    For the vegetation, I composed 6 different types of bushes of different size. I paid attention to the silhouette to be at the same density as in the concept. I looked at origami tutorials to create clovers and leaves and I did it with real paper before doing it in 3D starting from a plane and folding it as it was in reality. Pretty easy and fun to do!

I needed to use a lot of references in order to constently having new ideas and also understand what was possible to do with paper and what was not (I also made little tests to make me understand this. Especially for the size and the quantity of some details).

paper tests, work in progress and some exemples of single references

The character was rigged with advenced skeleton and some simple blendshapes 

I used Marvelous Designer with 4 chairs and a bed sheet to create the background like a child's hiding place :)

And this is it! I am really happy with the cuteness of the result I have ^^ Next step will be the child who's reading this book!

I hope you liked it too and I also want to thank you for reading this breakdown!

Graduation short-film : Heritage

PITCH : Propelled to the head of a kingdom at war, a young sovereign must face up to the weight of his heritage.

This short film takes place in an imaginary place inspired by the Byzantine Empire. We were 5 to support this project : Hugo Borel, Clément Magnes, Anatole Auguste, Grégoire Dechamboux. It has been selected in festivals and I can't show you for the moment th result.

From generations to generations every King of Syko wear the crown of the foundators.
It has all the symbols of the Kingdom : the fig leaf, the sun and the moon.
This crown also contains jewels coming from all around the kingdom.
Now it's turn to king Alizar to wear it ! 

Rig of the Crown with nhair simulation on Maya

Ellipsis - Mosaics on the life of King Alizar

The young king Alizar continued the war that had cost his father his life.

10 years of endless battles after, the king decided to stop the vengeance of his father and make peace by marrying the daughter of his enemy.

I'm often asked how long it took me to make this mosaic, so I'll give you an early answer: all my Sunday mornings for 1 year, plus 3 days at the end of the project.

And this is it! 

If you have any questions please ask me and I would be glad to answer it ^^

I wish you to have a very nice day!
See you soon~