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Cycle
Cycle is a short film created as an individual FX project. This project was done in the span of a 14 week course. Cycle uses FX in Houdini to take the viewer through different elements in nature. It is designed to be played as a continuous loop with no beginning or end.
Responsible for: All Aspects Except Ground Texture
Spring 2020​
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Exploration
Exploration is a short film created as an individual FX project. This project was done in the span of a 14 week course.
Exploration is takes the viewer on a journey through outer space.
Responsible for: All Aspects Except Spaceship Model
Fall 2019
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Mailbot
Mailbot is a short film created for a team-based summer course. This was a six person project done in the span of a 10 week summer course.
This short is about a modern worker robot encounters an unfamiliar object in a packaging facility.
Every year this class connects with industry professionals from a major studio to help the students. This year we had five Walt Disney Animation Studio mentors come to our school to help us in person as well as fourteen other mentors we could message with any questions we had. It is an opportunity to work first hand with industry professionals, create new connections, and ask as many questions as we can think of.
Responsible for: Scanner FX, Compositing, Project Management and Audio
Partially Responsible For: Layout, Animation, and Concepts
Summer 2019
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Leather Bound Dreams
Leather Bound Dreams is a short film created for a live action time-based class. This was a two person project done in the span of one semester.
Leather Bound Dreams is about a girl who attempts to escape her current, mundane world and into her imagination. Through sketching she travels to the place that she is dreaming of.
Responsible for: All FX, Compositing, and Project Management
Partially Responsible for: Filming, Editing, Directing, Modeling, and Concepts
Spring 2019
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Sprout
Sprout is a short film created for a studio course. This was an individual project done in the span of one semester. We were tasked with going through every aspect of the pipeline on our own.
Responsible for: All Aspects
Fall 2018
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Rune
Rune is a short film created for a live action VFX study. This was a two person project done in the span of one semester.
This video begins with the process of making Rune and is then followed by the short film itself.
Responsible for: Orb Effect, Portal Effect, Background Effects, including the fog, particles, god ray, etc., editing, and Compositing.
Spring 2018
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Final Frontier
Final Frontier follows an astronaut as he floats in space, just to find out everything is not as it seems.
Final Frontier is a school project that was made for an assignment where students split up into groups of 5 and were tasked with creating a project. I was team lead for this project. I was tasked with not only making sure the project was well done and complete, but also with mentoring my teammates that were all younger than me.
Responsible for: Project Management, Galaxy, Compositing, Lighting, and Post Production
Spring 2018
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Other Projects
Tight Knit
Tight Knit is a live action film following a girl’s sweater through a period of her life told with the main focus being the girl’s sweater.
A three person project where we were tasked with creating a narrative between 3 and 5 minutes.
Responsible for: Editing, Compositing, Project Management, and Post Production
Partially Responsible For: Concept, Lighting, and Directing
Fall 2018
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Stranger Things Composite
A three person project where we were tasked with using a green screen to composite someone onto a still image. We were also tasked with using and creating audio that implies an action that happens off screen.
Responsible for: Compositing
Fall 2018
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Frostbite
Frostbite is a set of five shots that depicts a hiker that has mysteriously disappeared, leaving all of his belongings behind.
Frostbite is a school project that was made for an assignment where students split up into groups of 3 and were tasked with creating a project that focuses on VFX.
Responsible for: Mountain snow, snow FX, fog, flag, and compositing
Fall 2017
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Kung Fu Panda Recreation
A group assignment where groups of three were tasked with recreating a scene from an animated movie.
Responsible for: Waterfall, background matte painting, all buildings except front building, and project management.
Partially responsible for: trees, grass, mountain, and lighting.
Fall 2017
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Recurrence
Recurrence follows a depressed and overshadowed woman who lives a monotonous day to day schedule. She is challenged one day when she is walking home one night and faced with the opportunity to save a girl’s life, but runs from the conflict. This event haunts her and she realizes she made a mistake. Her greatest accomplishment comes from within herself during the next day when she is manifesting change in her daily life.
This was a three person project where we were tasked with creating a film or animation that depicts an idea of a hero. We divided the work load evenly so that each of us could work on every aspect of the project.
Responsible for: 1/3 of the whole project.
Spring 2017
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