the work of a second year

                                        THE HERMINE PROJECT

hello everyone! 

In my second year as a 3D animation student I had the opportunity to work on the animal project. We had 60 hours of production time to create a photorealistic animal. I chose to make a white ermine. 

The ermine's challenge was not only in the way its coat behaved, but also in its proportions. 

This will involve a lot of animal observation and guide placement, but also a lot of failure.

- fur production and texture application in one description

- guide behavior

- meshing and clean modeling

We also had to recreate a setting that would allow the animal to come to life and behave as it should.

At first I wanted to put my stoat in a winter setting with a snow floor. Nevertheless, I realized that white on white didn't really work.

So I decided to replace the image background

Just a little compositing on nuke

                                   THE LADYBUG PROJECT

Before the ermine, we had to make a ladybug. Same instructions as for the ermine, with about the same production time. I really enjoyed working on this project. Painting textures to get a nice SSS was really satisfying.

For the ladybug, observing its textural behavior was one of the most important aspects of my work. Of course, this also required good modeling and a back and wing curve faithful to reality.

After studying and selecting my references, I attacked the work.

- Meshing and clean modeling

- Test displace

- Good Displace

These are my various hand-painted texture maps on Substance Painter

Here again we had to recreate an environment for our insect and create a realistic posing.

To carry out this task, I took a reference that I deconstructed to produce a rendering close to my reference.

This picture is from https://www.trigobert.net/work/repos-coccinella-septempunctata

It was quite difficult to reproduce a lighting similar to this reference but I really liked the composition so I didn't give up and did several tests.