Summer 2024 recap

during the summer of 2024, alongside the 406 class assignments and a part time job i also chose to use my summer for learning houdini vellum. while my time this summer was very limited due to outside sources, heres what ive done so far:

Houdini VEllum

during a shaders class with professor steele, he showed off how the houdini vellum solver worked in a 2 minute long nutshell. inspired by this i kicked off the month of june teaching myself vellum. from this summer session of teaching myself, i feel pretty confident in vellum cloth, balloon and the ocean nodes.

Turn of the leaf

this summer i also chose to partner with Vi on the senior project named Turn of the Leaf. as we're still in the early concept stages, and have been in a couple of meetings and emails with professor Joe Pasquale about it. with the early concept stages, the thing's that i have done so far have been :

• designed enviroment concepts and moods for the film to take place

• designed background posters to give the city a sense of worldbuilding and life, that way when watching it it doesnt feel like a lifeless enviroment

• discussed the use of color in the film and begining to establish a color narrative to enforce the themes of the film/ subvert themes with the established color narrative