Nikki Dunsire

Client: None
Purpose: Holiday Studio Digital Card

About the Project

Overview:

Each year the studio sent out digital holiday cards to our past partners, clients and industry pals. On this round we decided to create something that landed more on the abstract - playing with sound and vision in a less linear fashion. Each artist was tasked with creating something of their choosing. I opted to play with texturing, camera animation and particles.​

My Role: ​

• All things Ice:

  • 0:00:00 - 0:00:35:

    • Camera animation​

    • Ice modeling, texturing & animation

    • Toon line FX

    • Cracking and particles

    • Environment modeling, texturing

    • All lighting

    • Render setup and composite

    • Excluding character (​Kalina Torino)

  • 0:01:10 - 0:01:18:

    • ​Ice modeling, texturing, animation

    • Toon line FX

    • Environment texturing 

    •  All lighting

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Software used: 3dsMax, Photoshop, After Effects

Approximate timeline: 2-3 weeks

Co-Animators: Kalina Torino & Seth Short

• 0:00:00 - 0:00:35:

  • Kalina - Character​

• 0:00:35 - 0:01:10:

  • Seth - Sky animation and breakdown​

  • Kalina - transition to next shot

• 0:01:18 - End:

  • Kalina - all the things​

Main Composite: Kalina Torino

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Plans for revision and updating:

• This was a fun project to work on and experiment with. I'd love to go back and refine and polish the animation and particle work.