Blind Shot
Senior Capstone Project
I am honored to have been the Modeling Lead for this short film. We spent a year or so before our senior year determining the story and models so that we could hit the ground running during the Capstone timeframe. An entire semester of rigging, surfacing, animating, and lighting was an incredibly difficult challenge, but the team did an incredible job pulling it all together. My first ever character surfacing was done for my Capstone, and I am so thankful to my advisor Monika Salter for guiding me.
Model - Yazli Gonzalez, Surfacing - Lily Morrison, CFX - Jason Beheler, Rigging - Soniya Lin, Derek Gutierrez
It was a shame to have so much of the story - and therefore models and characters - removed from the film, but we decided that was the only way we could submit a deliverable on time for the presentation. This means a lot of the work I did as Lead Modeler was cut out, but it gave me a good sense of how the animation industry operates: things are constantly changing, and so you can not get attached to your work. It was a really necessary experience for me and I’m grateful to have participated.
Here are some key shots showing off my character surfacing and tree models.