The Dark Magicians Altar (00:03 – 00:07) – Independent Project
Unreal Engine 5, Blender, Maya, Substance Painter, 3D Scanner App
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

The Dark Magician’s Altar is an animated “still-life” that I created for my VIST-275: Production Techniques class. I first came up with the title “The Dark Magician’s Altar” and then gathered images of items and subjects that would be related to a dark ritual.

More about the Dark Magician’s Altar can be found on this page

Phony Shinobi (00:07 – 00:16) – Team Project
ZBrush, Blender, Substance Painter
Responsible for character modeling and surfacing (Ninja), animation clean up, and VFX
Modeling, surfacing, VFX, environment, lighting, compositing

Phony Shinobi is a short animation created within 36 hours with a team consisting of Me, Cole Schantel, Steve Leal, and Rachelle Romane. I first came up with the pitch of a ninja battle and then we adjusted this idea to fit more with the theme of “On Thin Ice” and thus resulting in the animation we have now. It was a fun experience branching more into a stylized animation style and visual look, and it inspired me to explore more non-PBR visuals.

Entered into the Viz-a-GoGo 31 screening reel.

More about Phony Shinobi can be found on this page

POV: You’re On a Date With a Goblin (00:16 – 00:23) – Independent Project
Blender, Substance Painter, Davinci Resolve, NVidia Audio2Face
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

Goblin Date Video was a fun project to work on, but was hard to balance with the school curriculum I had to prioritize on during the creation of this animation. This was my chance to experiment with new things to speed up the workflow, such as using phone facial mocap data recorded with Unreal’s Live Link, however it didn’t produce effective results as the audio was pre-recorded and it proved difficult to try and match it with re-recording. I tried using NVidia’s Audio2Face AI instead, and it created somewhat better results that did sync up with the audio however was not very expressive and lacked range of motion. It needed a lot of adjusting using the facial rig but overall, the resulting animation is satisfactory for the limited time it had.

Created for the Higher Goblin Fiend Collective Youtube project in collaboration with Cole Schantel.

You’re NOT an Alpha Male… (He is) (00:23 – 00:29) – Independent Project
Blender, Substance Painter, Davinci Resolve
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

Created for the Higher Goblin Fiend Collective Youtube project in collaboration with Cole Schantel.

We’re Taking Turkeys Off The Menu (00:29 – 00:36) – Independent Project
Blender, Substance Painter, Davinci Resolve
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

Created for the 48 hour A&M ACM SIGGRAPH club Turkey challenge. I wanted to experiment more with a non-PBR type of rendering, so I went for an anime look for this project.

Capybara Drip (00:36 – 00:42) – Independent Project
ZBrush, Blender, Substance Painter
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

The Wizard’s Orb (00:42 – 00:48) – Independent Project
Blender, Substance Painter
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

Created for the Higher Goblin Fiend Collective Youtube project in collaboration with Cole Schantel.

More about the Wizard’s Orb can be found here

The Gland (00:48 – 00:54) – Independent Project
ZBrush, Blender
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

Icarus (00:54 – 01:01) – Independent Project
Blender, Photoshop
Responsible for all aspects
Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, surfacing, concept

Created for the VIST-105: Design class, entered into the Viz-a-GoGo 31 screening reel.

Gilbert Farts and Lives (01:01 – 01:08) – Team Project
Blender, Substance Painter, Davinci Resolve
Responsible for character modeling and surfacing (Satan),
lighting, compositing

Created for the Higher Goblin Fiend Collective Youtube project in collaboration with Cole Schantel.