The Team!

Amy Guo - Concept Artist and Animator

Moyra Donnelly - Model, Texture and Look Development Artist

Benjamin Cheeseman - Rigger and Assistant Pipeline TD

Caroline Coppenhall - Lead Animator, Pipeline TD and Editor

Deborah Ihonor - Digital Compositor

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Parker Britt - Houdini Procedural Artist

Cleona Donnelly - Title Sequence 2D Animator

Tree Creature Hero Asset

Here is the turntable of the tree creature! Modelled in Maya and ZBrush, textured in Mari and rendered in Houdini. Concept Art by Amy Guo.

Photogrammetry and HDRI

As the modeller in our team, I was responsible for capturing photogrammetry of our location and cleaning it up in Maya for accurate shadows and lighting on our tree creature.

I also captured a HDRI using a Canon 5D and Nodal Ninja.

Enjoy this little behind-the-scenes video I edited together showing a bit of our on-set filming experience! This was our first time doing a shoot and we learnt lots.

Shot on location at Peartree Cottage and Stanborough Park.

Behind-The-Scenes!

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REQUIEM : The Making Of

My first group VFX film project at the University of Hertfordshire has come to a close! It was a really good learning experience and we had a lot of fun working on it. Our film, "REQUIEM" tells the story of a dangerous contract made between a boy and a tree creature. The boy's grandmother explains the way to break the contract through a poem...

I was responsible for the modelling, texturing and look development of the tree creature (credits to Parker Britt for the procedural, leafy branches!) I was also responsible for photogrammetry and clean-up, HDRI, costume, set dressing and overall production (casting, location scouting, budgeting, scheduling, etc...)