PARADISE Live Action & Animated Music Video - Directed, Produced and Animated by me ;)
This music video is about the hopeful dream of an African American to live in harmony with people of all color, more importantly, to have a sustainable relationship with the police.
I worked on the video as a 3D generalist ranging from the initial concept development stages to the 3D animation pipeline, to the final rendering and publishing of the video. It has won Best Capstone project at the Virtual Student Showcase 2021 at SAE Dubai.
Roles in Production
Head of Animation
Writer of "Paradise" & Co-Writer of overall project LOUDER
Concept and Storyboard Artist
3D Modeling and Texturing Artist
Lighting Artist
Rigging Artist
Animator
VFX and CG Artist
Editor
Environment and Layout Artist
Marketing and Promotions
A turntable video of the character and assets I worked on for the film.
Working on this project as a one man (or woman) army had its perks :0 Above are snippet images of the roles I've worked on, while below are the software used to create these.
Below are two of my favorite shots from the film, animated lit and edited by me!
Want to see how I brought the main character to life? Check out the video below to see a small glimpse of the process time-lapse
Done in Zbrush
LOCKED IN Music Video - Art Director & CG artist
This music video is about the feeling of being locked in, trapped and captured. Battling his inner demons, he sees himself chained in a past memory of himself through a reflection.
The overall Project LOUDER consists of 4 Music Videos created as part of a Visual Album Project for a 12 track album dedicated to the BLM movement.
This music video was 1 out of the 4 music videos we created as part of the visual album idea. For this, I worked as the art director and set designer, and assisted the director in the film set up. Video time-lapses can be seen below.
Assisting with camera and lighting set-up
Set designing
My additional contributions to this MV was to add the CG scene as seen below. Watch the breakdown video of how this scene was composited!
CG shot in MV.
Breakdown.
JUST A DREAM Live Action Music Video - Art Director & Props designer
Apart from these contributions, I also went back to my traditional skills in painting to create posters and a painting of Martin Luther King JR. for a protest scene in the Music Video titled "JUST A DREAM". Watch me hold it as I take part in the protest scene as well!
Below are some images of the posters.
Timelapse of the poster paintings.
Congratsss!!! You've made it to the end of my 7 month project! Would you like to see more?
