First Contact from Michael Swann on Vimeo.
First Contact
6 month senior team thesis created at the Art Institute of California - Inland Empire
I was the Senior Environment Artist , responsible for 3 environments throughout the short with a team of about 6 environment artists, from receiving conceptual art to post production, I helped lead the modeling , UV Mapping, Texturing, and final lightning of the 3 environments I worked on.
I was responsible for creating the Vue xStream Jungle shot for the short, modeling the ruins, jungle assets, some VFX, as well as rendering out multiple scenes in layers and post production.
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Mental Ray, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Pixologic Zbrush, Quxel DDO, Vue 11 xStream, and Crazy bump.
I was the Senior Environment Artist , responsible for 3 environments throughout the short with a team of about 6 environment artists, from receiving conceptual art to post production, I helped lead the modeling , UV Mapping, Texturing, and final lightning of the 3 environments I worked on.
I was responsible for creating the Vue xStream Jungle shot for the short, modeling the ruins, jungle assets, some VFX, as well as rendering out multiple scenes in layers and post production.
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Mental Ray, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Pixologic Zbrush, Quxel DDO, Vue 11 xStream, and Crazy bump.