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FX & Simulation Projects

BFA Senior Thesis FX Video

Cotton candy procedural modeling & experimentation through FX

BFA Senior Thesis Installation

Walk-through of my all-pink cotton candy installation

SIGGRAPH 2023 Time Tunnel Highlight Reel

Two interactive floor projections in the Time Tunnel, created as a part of the 50th SIGGRAPH Conference celebration exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2023 in LA

SIGGRAPH 2023 Time Tunnel: Generations

Interactive floor projection, created in TouchDesigner using a RealSense Depth Camera for tracking movement

Painterly Pumpkins: Turntable

Generator created in Houdini using vellum inflation sims & TOPs. Shader created using Blender & rendered with Eevee.

Painterly Pumpkins: Breakdown

Process behind creating my painterly pumpkin generator, using Houdini vellum inflation sims, TOPs, RBD collisions, and blender geometry nodes.

Free Range

FX piece exploring the theme of juxtaposition. Created in Maya using Bifrost, BOSS, nParticles & 3D fluid containers.

Explosion Testing

Testing variations using TOPs for art directing explosion shapes and movement

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Scripting Demos

Shag Carpet Generator

Tool developed in Maya using Python

Patterned Tile Generator

Script developed in Maya using Python

Painterly Photo Filters

Coded in Processing

SIGGRAPH History Archive Filtering UI

Dynamic content filtering and sorting interface

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Modeling & Shading

Agent Harris Hughes

Character modeling & shading

Ice Cream Truck

Hard surface modeling

Roberval Balance

Hard surface modeling & shading

Spy Briefcase

Hard surface modeling & shading

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Digital Art

Cotton Candy Cluster (Houdini, Katana, RenderMan)

Cotton Candy Strands (Houdini, Katana, RenderMan)

Cotton Candy Dissolve (Houdini - Pyro Sim, Particle Advection, Rendered with Mantra)

Cotton Candy Cross-Section Slice (Houdini, Katana, RenderMan)

Abstract Particle Effect (Houdini, Mantra)

Wrapped Cone of Cotton Candy (Houdini, Katana, RenderMan)

Spy Briefcase (Modeled in Maya & Textured in Substance)

Roberval Balance (Modeled & Animated in Maya, Textured in Substance Painter & Rendered with RenderMa

Ice Cream Truck (Modeled in Maya & Rendered with RenderMan)

Painterly Photo Filter, Triptych (Coded in Processing)

Painterly Pumpkins, 11 Varieties (Houdini, Substance Painter, Blender)

Painterly Pumpkin Textures (Substance Painter, Blender)

Fall Still Life, 3D Model (Maya, RenderMan AO)

Fall Still Life, 3D Modeling & Shading (Maya, Arnold)

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Traditional Fine Art

Silver Gelatin Print on Fiber-Based Paper

Black Ink and Acrylic Relief Print (Rocks, Leaves, Flowers, Metal Grate)

Sanguine, White & Black Charcoal on Toned Paper

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