I worked as team leader and 3D Generalist at the realization of this animated short-movie for graduation thesis at IED (Milan). It is composed by a Live Action incipit and a Full CG storytelling development. Main activities:

• Modeling, procedural animation, rigging, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing using Autodesk Maya, Solid Angle Arnold, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter, Nuke an Adobe Premiere.
• Compositing made with NukeX (with After Effects post-production integrations) starting from the work of creation of render layers, AOVs and Arnold shaders in Maya. Use of gizmos and expressions for an optimized compositing.
• Main character and other animated asset's rig.
• Production of scripts in Python to optimize rig, pipeline and motion graphics (virus, opening title, scattering and procedural animations).
• City scattering made with both 3dsMax Object Paint and Maya's plug-in MASH.
• Graphic and animated texturing made in After Effects.

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About the thesis

The thesis group was made by me, Carlo Semeria, Francesco de Francisco and Angelo Raffinetti. The final grade of the project was 10/10.