Style development
Exploring handcrafted ways of 3D art and animation for Dream Droplets
Handpainting textures and 3D geometry
You can change the lighting with Shift + Left click drag
Style frames
Exploring the style and feel of the Unbox Holliday commercial
Style frame / final
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Style exploration anti-fraud campaign
Style exploration 3D sea
Look Development
When making the painterly shaders of the environment, we first tried to get close to the mood we wanted by completely lighting and shading the scene. Then we would render an isolated light- and shadow version of the scene to be made painterly in Photoshop and paint over it to push the renders where we wanted them. After that process, we could build a shader that uses the light and dark renders as a projected base for the final lighting. This time with characters in the scene, and all the lighting and shadows reacting to the painterly base.
Final
The final result of this close shot of the captain. In this scene, you can see the shadow the captain casts on the table.
Style Development KNGF
VisDev | LookDev | Shading | Technical Art
For the second KNGF commercial, I had the opportunity to explore the visual style of the smoke that was a big part of communicating the trauma Roland suffered. To make the transition believable, the smoke needed a rough and graphical feel to reflect his experience clearly. I made many iterations and really liked the artistic and technical challenges.
Result of exploring the style and feel of the thrid film
Look Development
Based on the illustrations of Audrey, I created textures in Substance Painter for the characters. One texture that only appears when light hits the character and one with different shapes that is only visible in shadow.
This was needed to create the feeling that lighting was painted on top of the models
In Maya, we would combine these textures with Vray toon shading and additional shader magic like stylized rim lighting, painterly gradations, and toon lines.
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