Visual Effects – Visual Effects Drake

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^{Mug Integration - June 2024}

^{I used polycam to create a 3d scan of the mug, I then cleaned the topology and added a simple procedural texture. The scene was assembled in Maya and then composited in Nuke.}
^{Blind Rider Car Model - March 2024}
^{Joy Rider Car Model - March 2024}
_{Blind Rider Crash - May 2024}

_{For this shot created for "Rider" I was responsible for creating the Blind Rider vehicle, setting up rigid body dynamics for the crash, simulating the crash, and animating. In addition I created multiple debris and dust FX layers, a pyro-simulation for the engine, and the IED explosion.}
_{Blind Rider Crash - May 2024}

_{For this shot created for "Rider" I was responsible for creating the Blind Rider vehicle, setting up rigid body dynamics for the crash, simulating the crash, and animating. In addition I created multiple debris and dust FX layers, a pyro-simulation for the engine, and the IED explosion.}
_{Blind Rider Crash - May 2024}

_{For this shot created for "Rider" I was responsible for creating the Blind Rider vehicle, setting up rigid body dynamics for the crash, simulating the crash, and animating. In addition I created multiple debris and dust FX layers, a pyro-simulation for the engine, and the IED explosion.}
_{Robo-Rider Shot - May 2024}

_{For this shot from "Rider" I was responsible for the animation, camera, and FX trails from the Robo-Rider car.}
_{EMP Deactivating Missile Shots - May 2024}

_{This was a multi-layed FX shot created for the "Riders" project that includes lightning, particle, and pyro simulations. In these shots Storm Rider launches an EMP blast at the missle shot at him by Robo-Rider. For these shots I was responsible for the FX and Compositing.}
_{EMP Deactivating Missile Shots - May 2024}

_{This was a multi-layed FX shot created for the "Riders" project that includes lightning, particle, and pyro simulations. In these shots Storm Rider launches an EMP blast at the missle shot at him by Robo-Rider. For these shots I was responsible for the FX and Compositing.}
_{EMP Deactivating Missile Shots - May 2024}

_{This was a multi-layed FX shot created for the "Riders" project that includes lightning, particle, and pyro simulations. In these shots Storm Rider launches an EMP blast at the missle shot at him by Robo-Rider. For these shots I was responsible for the FX and Compositing.}
_{Nitro Shot - May 2024}

_{This was a multi-layed FX shot created for the “Riders” project that includes lightning sims, particle sims, and a rigid body sim. The textures on the Nitro canister are completely procedural. The nitro canister was modeled in Maya, with simulations created in Houdini and rendered in Arnold. The shot was composited in Nuke.}
_{Nitro Shot - May 2024}

_{This was a multi-layed FX shot created for the “Riders” project that includes lightning sims, particle sims, and a rigid body sim. The textures on the Nitro canister are completely procedural. The nitro canister was modeled in Maya, with simulations created in Houdini and rendered in Arnold. The shot was composited in Nuke.}
_{America's Consequence - January 2024}

_{America’s Consequence is a short film directed by Hannah Setzler. I was responsible for managing the visual effects for this project, which includes talent recruitment, shot planning, on-set VFX supervision, post-production management, and compositing. The majority of the shots involved simple clean-up or screen-placements.}
_{America's Consequence - January 2024}

_{America’s Consequence is a short film directed by Hannah Setzler. I was responsible for managing the visual effects for this project, which includes talent recruitment, shot planning, on-set VFX supervision, post-production management, and compositing. The majority of the shots involved simple clean-up or screen-placements.}
_{America's Consequence - January 2024}

_{America’s Consequence is a short film directed by Hannah Setzler. I was responsible for managing the visual effects for this project, which includes talent recruitment, shot planning, on-set VFX supervision, post-production management, and compositing. The majority of the shots involved simple clean-up or screen-placements.}
_{America's Consequence - January 2024}

_{America’s Consequence is a short film directed by Hannah Setzler. I was responsible for managing the visual effects for this project, which includes talent recruitment, shot planning, on-set VFX supervision, post-production management, and compositing. The majority of the shots involved simple clean-up or screen-placements.}
_{Gardener Scene – November 2023}

_{For this project I combined some of my early procedural shading projects into a larger project. I added more elements like a vellum grain sim and a procedural wood plank texture.}
_{Brain Synapses – October 2023}

_{This project was created using OSL and Houdini in order to showcase Brain Synapses. The image is meant to replicate lighting scenarios similar to those found under and electron microscope.}

_{OSL Source Code}
_{Charlie Vs The World - Feburary 2024}

_{Fun project where I replaced Micheal Cera in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World with my friend Charlie.}
_{Chess Charlies - January 2024}

_{Simple project exploring the classic visual effect split-screen technique.}
^{Building Block Buster – June 2023}
^{Carved in Stone Void Scene – April 2023}

^{Carved in Stone is a webseries directed by Porter Justus. For this project I served as a compositor, responsible for shot clean-up, keying, and contributing to look development.}
_{Newtons Cradle - May 2023}

_{This model was created in Maya and Python 100% in code. ALl you would need to do is run the code in the Maya terminal to generate a cardboard Newton’s cradle with marbles. You can even increase and decrease the number of marbles.}
_{source code}
_{Orrery - April 2023}

_{An ‘orrery’ is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons [wikipedia].}

_{I have always wanted to build one of these, but lacked the resources and mechanical expertise to assemble one in the real world. In Houdini I created a procedural gear system that sped up my process of modeling this device tenfold! The gears turning animation is automatically adjusted with to adust for the number of teeth in both gears.}
_{Orrery - April 2023}

_{An ‘orrery’ is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons [wikipedia].}

_{I have always wanted to build one of these, but lacked the resources and mechanical expertise to assemble one in the real world. In Houdini I created a procedural gear system that sped up my process of modeling this device tenfold! The gears turning animation is automatically adjusted with to adust for the number of teeth in both gears.}
_{Orrery - April 2023}

_{An ‘orrery’ is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons [wikipedia].}

_{I have always wanted to build one of these, but lacked the resources and mechanical expertise to assemble one in the real world. In Houdini I created a procedural gear system that sped up my process of modeling this device tenfold! The gears turning animation is automatically adjusted with to adust for the number of teeth in both gears.}