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Crafted

Animated Short

Release Date 2020

An art project reveals the beauty of creation through the hands of an Artist.

About

3D Animated Short

A visually led, rather than narratively led film

About

View full short film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KxFbMFbiwc&t=62s

Roll On Crafted

3D Environment and Prop Modeler

3D Character Animator

Co-Producer

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Lantern

Environment and Props

Wood Worker Room Props Process Work

Lantern

Reference

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Concept

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Lantern Progressions

Final Shot Look

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Responsible for Model, research, sketch, and turnarounds

Lantern Before concept was decided

Lantern after concept was decided

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Rendered Image Test

  • I wanted to play with some Asymmetry to give the prop more character and make it more stylized.

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  • Tipping the edges was to create the feeling of movement.

 

  • widening the handles at the bottom was to create the illusion of weight though a feeling i want this prop to express

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  • The dent and and tipped edges was to give and older used look

Turnarounds and Rendered Image

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  • ​Created in Maya

  • Textured in Substance

  • Rendered turnaround in Marmoset

Colored and ready to go into substance for the texture artist

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Tool Box
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Tool Box

Reference

Sketch

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Final Shot Look

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Responsible for Model, Research, sketch, and turnarounds

Tool Box Progressions

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Earlier Model

  • Had all rings 

Later Model

  • Changed the lower rings to knobs for variation

  • started color coding for substance

  • The box is functional crating a space for the animator to utilize

 

  • Tipping the edges of the box and drawers was to play with proportions to fit the world the Woodworker lives in and create the feeling of movement.

 

  •  Added each screw and facet to make it more believable 

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  • To add interest a moving mechanism besides the drawers was added to the top

 

  • to apply to the Woodworkers busy cluttered personality little letters/ notes were added with a clip to show he likes to keep access things.

Final Model

  • Lid clasps and drawers made a symmetrical for interest and to fit style better

  • ringed by Emma Srutowski

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Turnarounds

  • ​Created in Maya

  • Rendered turnaround in Marmoset

Responsible for Model and turnarounds

Modeled by me

Textured by Jin Lee

Rendered Images

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  • ​Textured in Substance

  • Rendered Images by Jin Lee

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Rock Colum Enviornmen

Rock Column and Volcano Environment

Created in Houndini 

Responsible for all 3D models except trees, camera, animation, Rock Column textures

Overview

  • Scene inspired by The Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China and Hallelujah Mountain in 'Avatar'

  • The landscape features tall, stone mountain columns covered in foliage

  •  The camera weaves in and out of the columns as it moves along

  •  The columns will be standing upright in water

  • In the background there are stone structures that stand in the water.

WIP

Final Shot

Reference

Concept Art

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The Incredibles - Dash Runs on the water

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The scene is more progressed but still stylized. Crafted is going for a simple shape and the texture will add the more geometric details

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Rock Wall has more defined geometric shapes

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The Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China

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Concept by Leo Chen

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The Grinch

Volcano example with a simple shape

Houdini Challenge

  • I learned how to use Houdini in two weeks to create this rock wall.

  • This process was challenging to create the overlapping of geometric shapes with a smooth top to be the forest for the next scene.

  • I had worked with nodes in Substance Designer but this involved a lot of research and time.

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Houdini Success

  • I was able to create the desired look in the end though lots of trial and error, research, and help from Ryan Gold.

  • I was happy with pushing myself to learn a new program without a class on it and with such a tight time constraint.

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A procedural is being used for all of these assets

Column Wall

Column Wall Progressions

Created in Houndini 

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Challenge that was Solved

Finding a way to overlap the geometry

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One of the First Attempts​​

  • Started with a cube and turned it into a rectangular prism

  • First I learned how to join different pics of geometry to try and create and overlapping look

  • The rocks where not ridged enough I had put a bend in the wall but it was to thick and it did not  have a flat back

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A Middle Attempt

  • I made a wall that had a turn and combined rocks but made them look more ridged

  • They where to realistic here and did not have a flat top for the forest ground

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Final Result

  • The wall has 2 rectangular prisms combined and one cylinder

  • The cylinder was used to cut out the inside corner to create a space for the volcano

  • A smaller vertical rectangular prism was tapered at the bottom to create the geometric pieces along the wall

  • points where created along the wall and then the smaller vertical rectangle was randomized to the point with random heights and width for each

Volacno

Volcano Progressions

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Created in Houndini 

Challenge that was Solved

Getting the bottom of the volcano to merge with the ground

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Early Attempt

  • I added a height map to create ridges of the ground 

  • Made the volcano one with the ground to create a smooth transition

  • It was way to realistic

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Final Result 

  • I simplified the volcano by taking a triangle and giving it 4 sides

  • Took a cylinder to cut out the top for the lava to go into the hole

  • Made the volcano one with the ground to create a smooth transition

  • reduced the height way down on the ground to create only subtle  variations

Columns

Columns Progressions

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Created in Houndini 

Challenge that was Solved

Creating the ledges

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The First try

  • Originally I decided to try and create it in zbrush

  • I started with a cube

  • This process made it hard to create fast variations 

  • After working on it i decided to switch over to Houdini

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  • Started with a rectangular prism 

  • Tapered the bottom

  • Added a bend to make it asymmetrical 

  • Ended up to realistic with to many ridges

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  • Reduced the ridges 

  • Made the ridges bigger

  • Tried to go for a more stylistic feel

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  • Added ledges

  • At first asked to have many variations

  • After I was asked to make 3 specific looks

  • I combined, rotated, scaled and edited the bend to create the 3 specific variations

  • Randomized the ledges location on the models

Layout

Layout Progressions

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Layout Created in Houdini then altered in Maya after adding assets

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​Early Pass for Layout

  • First rocks where randomized across a map of where it can and can not be placed

  • To many rocks and not specific enough placement

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Final Pass for Layout

  • First I was asked to randomize the location

  • After many attempts It was then asked to be the layout artist for this scene

  • I bought the scene in to Maya to hand place the columns based on the camera

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Camera Pass

Model UVs done in Maya

Camera Created in Maya

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  • Motion Path first used but did not turn out with the desired look

  • Changed approach to hand animating the camera

  • Many camera variations done before final

  • Transferred to Houdini

Textures

Textures/Renders

Scene compiled in Houdini to prepare to apply effects

Texture created by me in Substance Designer then applied in Substance Painter

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Preparing for textures

  • This scene was originally created to be all procedural textures but because of COVID-19 we did not have access to Houdini 

  • In Maya I color coded the columns to prepare them for substance designer

  • The columns closest to the camera are on their own maps while the ones further away share a map in 3s

Triplainer Projection

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UV Projection

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Rock Column Texture

  • I created in in Substance Designer 

  • To do this I researched different rock and stone textures

  • I applied it in Substance Painter

  • I decided to go with Tri Plainer projection to help hide the seams

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Challenge that was Solved

Transferring textures to this Houdini file

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Problem Solving

  • problem - during the transferring process the procedural texture for the wall did not apply the same because of the scaling difference

  • Solutions - I learned if you do not apply it though a material node but though the obj level the scaling works correctly

  • Problem - The volcano to get the right look most of it is under the water so the top is wide enough for the effect

  • the texture was way to big in compared to the part showing and looked like a bunch of big U wrinkles

  • Solution - to fix this I played with the scaling and rotation of the different texture layers 

  • the colors where then altered with color correct nodes to get a cohesive colored scene

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Houdini Transfer Process Examples

  • Imported most of the scene as one obj and then split it with a delete node to assign individual textures

Renders
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  • All textures applied 

  • Character needs subsurface

  • Models need to be subdivided

Textures Finalized Renders

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  • Added subsurface to the skin 

  • Subdivided the character two times 

  • Subdivided the environment models

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  • Fog added by Emma Srutowski

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Final

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