3D Film / Lighting / Cloth Simulation
Project
Personal project, 100%
Period
December 2022
Tools
Cinema 4D
Octane
After Effects
Marvelous Designer
Role
Concept
3D & Simulation
Lighting
Editing
00 — Overview
01 — Objective
Convey warmth and loneliness from outside a window
02 — Design Criteria
Work with a fixed composition and limited GPU memory
03 — Deliverables
3D scene · Snow and curtain work · Lighting · Film
Watch the work.
01 — Context
How much can one fixed composition communicate?
The starting point was a scene in My Sweet Orange Tree in which a boy watches a Christmas home from outside.
I placed the camera beyond the window and revealed parts of the room through lace curtains. The warmly decorated but empty interior holds a sense of loneliness alongside its comfort.
02 — Approach
01
Keeping the camera outside
02
Building snow within GPU limits
03
Simulating the lace curtains
03 — Outcome
Outcomes and learning
I completed a film built around lighting and subtle movement within a fixed composition. After its release, Audio Bottega contacted me about using the video and obtaining the source file.
Audio Bottega
James Micheli, co-founder of Audio Bottega in Lucca, Italy, reached out after seeing the film. The studio is known for original scoring work for commercials by MINI, Garmin and Rudy Project.
He asked for the source file in .mp4 1920 x 1080 and whether the piece could be licensed for the motion design market. The project stayed personal, but the contact mattered: someone who listens to moving images for a living saw enough potential to ask at source-file level.
Audio Bottega · Lucca, Italy · January 2023
Learning
I learned to choose production methods around both the desired image and the available resources. Using Volume Builder for snow and learning Marvelous Designer for the curtains helped me bring new tools into an existing 3D workflow.
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