Duration
September - December 2021
Skills
Storyboarding
Character Design & Creation
Rigging
3D Animation & Rendering
Film Making
Tools Used
Maya
ZBrush
Photoshop
AfterEffects
Rain Falls is a short film that uses lovable raindrop characters to contrast the memorable and important moments in life with how ephemeral life is.
Rain Falls
Process
World Building
One day it was raining in Pittsburgh, as usual, and I wanted to capture how I was feeling in this project.
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I was inspired by the mood of how I felt from rain and characters I liked to create my main character, Raindrop Boy.
The Story in a Beat
I first started with writing the script, the Beat, of the entire story I had envision, the Rhythm.
Storyboard & Feedback
Writing it out helped make the storyboarding process much easier, and I was able to communicate my vision through visuals quicker.
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First time using Zbrush
Second iterations
Importing Zbrush model to Maya to manually create a mesh
Importing Zbrush model to Maya to manually create a mesh
Painting mesh on Zbrush and re-importing to Maya
Lighting and rendering
Creating skeleton and rigging character
Painting skin weights
Rigging Raindrop Girl
Adding BlendShapes for detailed expressions/blinking
Rigging demo
Camera curation and animation