The Tall-Loop

This was a personal project I worked on whilst working at Axis Studios as the Facilities Administrator.

The project was born from the Axis Mentorship Brief of 2023 which was to take an environment from an axis project and recreate it in the style of another. I however decided to do a mash-up of a project combining the trailer for 'DeathLoop' and the Episode 'The Tall Grass' from Love Death + Robots.

Whilst working on this project I had to adapt to the studio pipeline and workflows which was a unique challenge for me but thankfully I had plenty of help that I could reach out to if any issues popped up.

I had to learn how to use Houdini from scratch for a variety of purposes as it is one of the studio's primary tools. I had used it for terrain generation, asset scattering, shading, lighting, simulation and rendering output via Arnold. I had to also make use of Nuke with the help of the LRC department to finish off the project.

I was given various notes and feedback regarding the project that helped me along and guided me throughout the process.

I would like to give a massive thanks to :

Ciro Cardoso - Lead Environment Artist
Cameron Mitchell - Realtime CG Supervisor
Alexandre Berger - Senior Lighting Artist
Nils Allely - Rigging TD
Dan McCance - Lead Lighting Artist
Erwin Smeenge - Real-time Junior FX Artist
Santiago Cabrera - Junior FX Artist

Also a massive shoutout to the staff that actively enabled and encouraged me to work on this project whilst working at Axis.