Category: Portfolio Pieces

(TO VIEW THE 360 VIDEO, YOU MUST WATCH DIRECTLY ON YOUTUBE) This short film was created for my senior thesis. It was created to be viewed inside a planetarium, hence the video being formatted the way it is. Being rendered for a planetarium, there was no proper way for it to be uploaded to YouTube unless I uploaded it as a circle. That led to me modeling a mini planetarium inside of blender and creating a 360 video of it, to simulate what it looked like inside of the planetarium.

Thank you to Twoleggedzoo who let me use his music as a backing ambiance in different parts of the film.

This short animation was made for the Buffalo Bisons Race Car night, a sponsorship with Watkins Glen and the Buffalo Bisons. I made it with one of my fellow interns, Tyler. He made most of the animations and modeled the scenery and a couple mascots. I modeled two of the mascots, the NASCAR cars, and also designed each of the title cards for the mascots. I also designed the final RACE CAR NIGHT end card.

This little guy was made for my 3D animation 1 class. We were tasked to create a character and then make said character walk. It’s name is Whankle Tongue, and its scientific name is Whanklus Tongsurian.

As a personal study project, I chose to create Stanley Cup Champion win animations for the 2025 NHL season. I created two as I was not sure which team was going to win. The Stanley Cup model was found online, while everything else was modeled by me. I do not claim the rights to any of the teams logos nor any NHL property and this was mainly for personal study.

This short animation was made for my 3D animation 2 class, where we had to create an advanced character.

For this project I chose to look into datamoshing and seeing what interesting effects I could get from that. I took a previous project of mine and datamoshed it into itself a bunch and then took that texture and put it on a sphere in blender. I then took that sphere and rendered two shots of. I took those two videos and datamoshed them into themselves a couple of times giving the weird distortion and artifiacting you see. I made the audio in FL studio to match the glitchiness of the video.

For this project we were tasked to create a hoax. I decided to create a hoax that the moon was crashing down to the earth. Everything was made in blender other than the audio. I made it as if it were recorded with someone’s actual video camera to sell this realism. I also used my professors retro render compositor addon. This addon makes it so your render has the artifacting and visual effects of old video equipment. I wanted to emulate this effect to try and sell the realism as by itself you can easily tell that its just a render. Purposely lowering the quality and making it seem as if its actually on a CRT screen gives the effect of found footage like someone just found this video tape.