DEMO REEL
Music Used: Alice in Reitouko by Orangester (MR)
Breakdown
Beside You
A robot's human death. A machine who finally goes beside its loved family once alive. Is it death, or birth of a being with dignity?
This personal project was created with Blender and Houdini, with color correction donewith After Effects. Modeling and the lighting was done in Blender, along with procedural texturing of Blender. The blooming flower growth effect was created in Houdini, and was imported back into Blender as a cache.
Mr. Rabbit
Final Project
Wireframe
AO
Textured
I have been developing Mr. Rabbit for three years. The concept came from Asian tales in which there are rabbits endlessly making rice cakes on the moon. I thought, if there were rabbits on the other side of the moon we cannot see forming a society just like us, there could be a rabbit who always makes mistakes in this busy world like me. Lopped-eared bunnies are cute, but they are abnormal in the sense that their ears are the result of genetic mutation. This trait symbolizes young adults still struggling to find their place in the world
This original character was created with Maya, Blender, Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, and Substance 3D Painter. The basic shape of it was created in Blender, and it was exported to ZBrush for sculpting of simple muscle structures. Then, it was brought back into Maya for retopology and rigging. The cloth was created in Marvelous Designer and retopologized within the software for optimal animation of the cloth wrinkles.
All the models were brought into Substance 3D Painter for texturing with UDIMs. The fur of the character was first experimented with Houdini but was later replaced with fur created within Maya’s Xgen interactive groom as it looked better. After the custom rig was finished, it was animated and rendered with Arnold, then was composited with Nuke.
Blanc
Blanc is the boss of all rabbits. They are a mythical being close to a god, but they are also just a saw tooth of the enormous society she made now. They want to fly out of their office.
This original character was created with Maya, Marvelous Designer, Substance 3D Painter and Houdini. The character modelling was done in Maya, and the cloth was created and retopologized in Marvelous Designer. Texture was done with UDIMs in Substance 3D painter. The cloud animation was created in Houdini, and was imported into Maya as a VDB cache. After the rigging was done with the Advanced Skeleton plugin of Maya, it was animated and rendered with Arnold. The emission pass was rendered separately in a merged AOV for compositing of glow in Nuke.
Robo Rabbit
Wireframe
AO
Textured
This was another variation design of Mr. Rabbit that I designed and created with Maya and Substance 3D Painter. I designed most of the parts based on old machines that I saw in museums or online.
Illustrations
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Between Satisfaction and Hollowness
Miracle Where Two Hearts Meet
All Are Just Characters in a Story
Way Back Home
Mr. Rabbit (Originlal)
All Are Just Characters in a Story (3D Remake)
Renaissance
To be born as something new, cracking the stereotypes we have, we often need to discard and destroy what we believe to be absolute truth, even the time we lived.
This personal project was created with Maya, Blender, Marvelous Designer, and Substance 3D painter. I modeled the environment and textured it with UDIMs first, then I started experimenting with Houdini and Maya. I was able to create similar effects with Houdini, but the optimization aspect for re-texturizing was better when I created the simulation in Maya with the nCloth system. Still, the scene was quite heavy for rendering at once with Arnold, so I needed to first layer things as foreground and background, create Arnold scene source files, and batch render them outside of Maya. I created the space background using Blender procedural volume shading, then composited everything in Nuke after rendering.
