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Rika Mizoguchi

Desert Eyes: CG Short Film:

I was co-director, visdev/concept artist, lead texture artist, lighter, and compositor on this thesis film. Our goal was to combine 3D CG with painterly stylization.

Early blue-sky phase painting, exploring the mood and potential style for the film.

Beatboards exploring compositions and lighting.

Mood painting, loose concept for temple interior lighting before final rendering style was determined. Paintover, of a rough 3D blockout made in collaboration with my co-director. This model was more finely refined at a later stage.

Designs for the protagonist (middle) and villain (right). Color schemes were chosen to reflect the colors of the 2 magical gems (blue/silver, and red/gold)

Character texture painting

Character texture painting

Stylized sand fx concepts.

Final texture painting for the above asset--UV unwrapping and applying stylized painterly textures to models provided by our 3D modeler.

Creature concept

Quick, loose exploratory sketches of the digsite set. These provided the basis for 3D blockouts, and more refined background paintings.

Quick, loose exploratory sketches of the digsite set. These provided the basis for 3D blockouts, and more refined background paintings.

skydome I painted to create the sky backdrop for the 3D scene

Renders from Film

In these renders, I was responsible for:

texture painting characters, props, and backgrounds in Blender and Photoshop

lighting in Maya

compositing in Nuke

colorgrading in Premiere

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