3D Work

I am experienced in Blender and Autodesk Maya when it comes to 3D Animation. I am also learning Houdini for procedural modeling and simulating special FX. Notable courses I took included Intro to 3D Animation, Rendering & Shading, and Design Communication. I gained industry experience as the FX Lead and Animation Lead during A&M's Summer Industry Course with DreamWorks Animation.

Summer Industry Course 2022 with DreamWorks Animation

"Forsaken" (Summer 2022)

SIC is a 10-week course hosted by the Viz Lab at A&M where select students work together to create an animated short film under the guidance of industry professionals from DreamWorks Animation. As the FX Lead and Animation Lead, I developed a procedural cobweb tool, dust tool, and paper tool in Houdini, and was head of Character Animation. I keyframe animated the doll, lamp, lamp strings, clock hands, and marionette strings in Maya. I modeled the marionette strings, spiderwebs, tin cans, beer bottles, Viz Logo, and ballpoint pens in Maya, and developed shaders for the cobwebs and strings in Renderman.

Houdini FX Breakdown

Hero webs shot 1

Viz Logo made of webs (Houdini & Renderman)

Clock with webs

Book with webs (Houdini & Renderman)

Dusty bottle with webs

Clock web tool demo (Houdini)

Some Paper I created in Houdini

3-D Animation

Capstone Project (Fall 2022)

In this project, I aimed to explore and research the intersections between choreography, 3D animation, and FX. The outcome of my research was the short film "Sleepless in the Stars". I learned advance keyframe animation techniques, cloth simulation, particle instancing, and fluid dynamics.

VIZA 613 Project (Fall 2021)

This class was my first introduction to the animation pipeline, and I hope to continue learning and improving. I keyframe animated the entire performance using Blender and my roommate and I's choreography as reference. This animation is still in the blocking stage and not polished/splined. I modeled and simulated the tutu to make it stiff and bouncy. I created a simple particle system for the ending and procedurally created the wood texture in Blender.

Animation Blocking Practice (Winter 2021)

Key frame animation blocking of Kung Fu Shaolin form. (In Progress)

VIZA 616 Substance Painter/Renderman Projects (2022)

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