My fav the fearsome (playful :)) sand gobbler.
The best part of lighting this is – the team spirit working with look dev, fx, tech anim and comp to make this awesome. So proud Love and Monsters is nominated for 2021 Oscars Best VFX. yay! Our hard work pays off!
“client loves your lighting” says the VFX Sup – that made my day! 🙂
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Morning is always so fresh with refreshing smell of mist, and glittering dewdrops on grass and – giant toy train! 🙂  Really nice to do this piece – it evokes nostalgia of looking forward to each morning in our childhood, with lots of magic and things to explore! Here’s the breakdown of the lighting, shading, texturing and […]
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Revisiting my lighting for animation – interior lighting. Doing lighting always makes me feel a sense of like coming home! A kind of happiness. 😉 It is a nice challenge to light this stylized piece. I really like the Gumosa character, and posing him relaxed and deep in thoughts, smiling to himself! 🙂 Pretty forlorn. Haha! I […]
So learning FX and Houdini has been a blast! Simply love Houdini!
As I love color pencils, I created a pencil sculpture with Lsystem based on nature by number, and I thought it would be fun to fire off broken leads from pencils since this is one thing that always happen to me … broken pencil lead. 😉 And then they mutate into something beautiful! Butterflies…. I have another version of a school of fish (after watching Nat Geo WILD 🙂 ).
Houdini 14 for procedural modeling, animation, particles and FX, rendering in Mantra and Nuke.
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I’ve always loved to look at clouds. It is fascinating to paint them! I love creating my own cloud brushes and smudge brush and use them to paint clouds from scratch in photoshop. It’s nice to sculpt the form with highlights and shadows.
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So fun to see my character comes alive ! 🙂 Really enjoy the whole process of sculpting, texturing and painting. (sculpted from zbrush polysphere with dynamesh and subdiv, projection texturing with spotlight, paintovers with photoshop)
It is nice to just do quick simple sketching in zbrush too ! Zbrush is not just for monsters and robots … i guess! 🙂
Shadow box – how unique … just like drawing in shadows….
toy helicopter – all parts with shadow box
toy kettle
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Fun with texturing of toy car in Maya and Mudbox, and shading/rendering in Arnold. I must say there is definitely beauty to dirt and grime! haha! It seems (at least to me) to make all the difference! No wonder we loved to dirty ourselves as kids ! 😉 Adding some early morning mist/dew drops on … […]
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