Orion

Orion was my first big project of creating a 3D animation with multiple scenes that had to have a strong rhythm and flow into each other. It was also the my first time creating a product visualization, also having to concept and model it myself.

I began with sketching a rough design of what the water bottle would look like, minimal design but with interesting aesthetics that add some detail. I watched a lot of topology tutorials on how to model a cylindrical object. It’s difficult because loop cuts can be very troublesome on rounded objects. The technique I found was breaking the lid in 1/4 and modeling the extrusion with very high subdivisions, then using a cloner to duplicate it 3 more times. The rest of the model was pretty straight forward just add slight nuances throughout the design.

Then I moved into texturing the bottle, this was also the first time I placed graphics on a model all done inside of Redshift, I used many of the same techniques I used for Sudden Death.

I lit the entire sequence in chronological order so I wouldn’t get confused since this was my first go at rendering and cutting multiple shots. My teacher introduced me to rendering in the viewport render and that was a huge game changer to understand the pacing of how each shot flowed into each other, without wasting big render times.