Industry work : The pack studio
Letter from the heart
VR Short film (2022)
Set as a prequel to the animated feature “Journey To Yourland”, this project used most of the same base assets. However, with a new story come new characters and new designs, and I was tasked with some of them!
On this project, still built in the Unity Realtime engine, I had to :
Take some pre-existing designs and do a variation on them (make a character younger, design different outfits, make some existing props look worn etc)
Create some new prop designs that fit the style of the rest of the world
VFX work using Unity’s VFX Graph by either creating new ones or repurposing some existing effects from the movie. Mostly environmental stuff, such as sand storms, smoke, pebbles, splashes, ambient dust.
Work on optimisation of performance inside the game engine regarding VFX
My Concept Work
Anna’s helmet
Anna is our main character in the short, and she is our point of view in VR. To justify this in the story, she wears an “advanced technological helmet” that serves as a camera and records the diaries we watch in the headset.
These are my test designs for the helmet in greyscale and their silhouettes, and then the final design (A1) in color.
President’s Style
The President, aka Anna’s husband, exists already in the feature film Journey to Yourland.
In Letter From the Heart, we are taking a step back into the past, and he needed to look younger with minimal modeling changes.
These were my suggestions, along with an outfit pitch.
Furniture design
As part of exploring new environments, we needed some new furniture that would fit the existing ones from the movie. These were all part of the bedroom, where quite a lot of the more quiet moments happen.
