Recent Posts
Silk Road Midterm Critique
“Journey”
A piece that allows viewers to follow through the journey taken by travelers of the Silk Road.
Stills
(Without Template)
(With Template)
Animation
Fun with VFX
After watching a visual effect shot in Prince of Persia: Sands of time, shared by my groupmate, Ayesha, I was heavily inspired to make my own cool visual effect as well. I decided to start by learning a tool called VFX Graph (within Unity). This is different from the Particle System previously used for sand simulations. I wanted to see Read more →
Sand Simulation VFX Breakdown
This post details the breakdown of how we achieve this result and the tricks discovered along the way to create particle physics simulations:
Above is a showcase of our custom-made interactive application where I am dragging our sand emitter around the screen with my mouse cursor. Sand is emitted and continue to fall, bouncing off objects. We manage to achieve and Read more →
Gears 3D Modelling Breakdown
This is part 1, the beginning of the entire development process focusing on Concept 2 of our ideation for the Silk Road theme. For subsequent parts, please see:
One of the core visual inspiration of this project is gears. Thus, we started Read more →
DA9012 Process and Story Board
Storyboard-Ver.1
Assets Refinement
Research on Wall Painting
After consulting with Ina, I realized that having more Dunhuang Wall painting would be better for this work, because it will give it more traditional feeling and making the 2 minutes more interesting. Hence I did some research, however, the resources online are quite limited. Later I went to the library to find some useful images.
