Overview
Through out my career I've often looked for unique ways to express my creative side while utilizing my gaming background and learning new skills. Luckily that has allowed me to branch out to other fields like Video production and AR.
Projects
Veridia (Poppies) - 3D and Animation
The Home Team (Hell) - 3D and Animation
Instagram + Snapchat Filters
3D Character Renders
Music Videos
Familiarizing my self with Unreal's video production and rendering pipeline I was able to work on a couple of music videos and looping visualizers where I modeled, animated and rendered characters in layers to pass off to the talented compositor and director Sam Link. This was an amazing collaborative effort to bring his clients visions to life.
Process (Poppies)
For Veridia's music video Poppies I was given a number of shots from the video to recreate in 3d and rotoscope to prep for compositing.
When setting up the rig in Maya to reanimate the original shots I ran into an issue with Maya’s image sequencer so I whipped up a quick python script to rename the sequences in a format that Maya could import. After that I reanimated all the shots and made sure to have keyframes for the character as well as all the cameras and lights in the scene to be imported into Unreal.
Once in unreal I set up my rendering pipeline to utilize the post process materials I made to export masks for the layers needed so that they could be added or removed when it came to mixing them with the real shots.
Filters
In 2019 I took up making Instagram filters through Spark AR as a hobby and was commissioned by Del Monte India to make an interactive game for their Facebook and Instagram pages. Shortly after I also learned Snap AR lens studio to make some filters for creatives on Twitch.
Instagram filters were pretty fun but quite the challenge to incorporate dynamic 3d elements, layered masking and UI elements.
Snap chat filters had more share value as they can be integrated with any webcam but more importantly their live mocap animations relayed on blend shapes similar to games.
Renders
When I have free time I like to work on digital renderings of vinyl figures for local businesses and other online artists. All renders were made in Substance and Maya.
