Inspired by Super Hot. Collaborated on a VR Chat room. I learned modeling and animation in Blender for this, as well as programming in U# (required for VR chat content.) Made with Unity.

NPC tracking/looking at the player test --this was kind of creepy to behold in person, even though he's just a cartoon skelly man. I did this with the FImpossible Look-At scripts. The rig is called "Skeleton Marauder" (from the asset store)

I have been digging into VR recently. I rigged this simple little robot guy, made some animation clips for him, and set up a finite state machine that triggers his animation when the user drops him to the blue area. Animation is so engaging in VR. Getting to see a little "living" thing you made in person (sort of) is pretty magical. I look forward to finding more ways to use it.

I have been walking by a little flock of crested pigeons everyday on the way to work and I thought their pointy crest doodley-things were kinda cute, so I designed, rigged and animated one.

I used this one to learn how to set up a wire deformer (for his tank-tred-like legs) and blend shapes (for his spikes).

I used Maya Particles to make some stylized low poly magic effects for a fake classic 3D game item. Then I messed with some N64 era Zelda midi in Reaper to make fake classic 3D game music. I added distortion to the video and sound to give it an old CRTV flavor.

I recreated the magic fire flower I had made in Maya, but with Blender this time. I redesigned it to look evil, and gave it some evil music (again based on Zelda midi). From this little project I learned about materials, lights and particle effects in Blender. I still prefer Maya for animation, but for working with effects, lights and materials, I like how blender's interface is organized.

Trying to get a bright, bold, cartoony, hand painted look on these shiny materials (gold and oil). I was watching some videos on cheats that game devs used in the early days of 3D, to optimize for the limitations of the hardware. There was an interesting one about how they faked the metal reflective look of Metal Mario in Super Mario 64, and I wanted to try to do something similar.