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BREAKDOWN:

1. Medieval Meadow Environment Model:

Created during a Women in Animation mentorship circle for CG lighting. Modeled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Blender Cycles. Vegetation created in Houdini using modeled grass mapped to points scattered across the ground mesh.

2. Pixar Undergraduate Program Set Dressing

Created as a weekly assignment during my Pixar Undergraduate Program internship, using set pieces modeled for Pixar's Luca to create a new set dressing arrangement. Set dressed in Maya, AO passes rendered in RenderMan.

3. "Twin Sparks" Short Film:

Twin Sparks is Heather Yun and I's SVA senior thesis film set to come out in Spring 2023! I've always been inspired by stylized 3D, and am super excited show off all I've learned about the medium in this film! I'm responsible for the shading, lighting, and FX in this shot, which was done in a combination of Houdini, Blender, and Nuke. Animation is done by my thesis partner Heather. Learn more here! ollieyao.com/twin-sparks

4. "The Broken Egg":

Modeled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Blender Cycles. A moody neon-bathed environment model of a sweet, janky little diner.

Music is "I Lost All My Eggs" by Shawn Wasabi.