Avery Buffington
Mothman Thesis Production Blog Week 41
This week I worked an incredible amount on shot specific lighting. This has truly tested my discipline and ability to turn out shots on a...
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Avery Buffington
Apr 103 min read
Mothman Thesis Production Blog Week 39-40
Week 39 4/1/2024: Painting Textures When working on the final painting I went back to revisit the style inspirations from the Miro board...
Avery Buffington
Mar 288 min read
Mothman Thesis Production Blog Week 36-38
Thesis Work: Week 36: Master and Shot Lighting 3/09/2024 - 3/11/2024: I went through the current rendered version of our film and looked...
Avery Buffington
Feb 282 min read
Mothman Thesis Production Blog Week 34-35
February 24th, 2024 - Mothman Sculpt Work I worked some more on the details of the Mothman character model. I connected the neck and the...
Avery Buffington
Dec 17, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 27
December 4th, 2023 After working over the weekend on optimizing the environment, this is the result that I came up with for the s1011...
Avery Buffington
Nov 12, 20233 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 23
This week my goal was to work on the UVs on the character to prep for normal mapping high detail geometry and texture work. 11-4-2023:...
Avery Buffington
Nov 3, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 22
This week I focused on redirecting my attention to the surfacing look development for textures. Reference Board Style Guide: I...
Avery Buffington
Oct 23, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 21
I worked on Monday for a handful of hours to get the high poly ZBrush wings to project down to the low poly version that has proper UVs...
Avery Buffington
Oct 20, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 20
I made some progress on the moth wing sculpt. My next step is to connect it to the character model to see how the size and the shape...
Avery Buffington
Oct 13, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 19
I didn't get to accomplish a whole lot this week as I had a couple midterm exams and papers due this week, however I worked during...
Avery Buffington
Oct 6, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 18
Mothman Creature Revisions: Illustration revisions to the Mothman creature design based on notes from the 9/29 Fall 2023 Production Pass...
Avery Buffington
Sep 22, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 17
Animatic Revision Notes: Animatic notes that I made on the recent proposal animatic changes, mostly cinematography notes for framing....
Avery Buffington
Sep 15, 20231 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 16
Paint Palette Brush Storke Effect Demo: This tutorial on Gumroad for Maya Arnold brushstrokes based off a MASH Network was recommended to...
Avery Buffington
Sep 8, 20234 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 15
Over the summer I briefly worked on the character hair and made several versions that evolve and change based off of the same hair...
Avery Buffington
Sep 8, 20234 min read
Production Pass #5
Mothman Production Pass #1 Notes: Syncsketch Items Shown: Updated animatic as of 8/31/2023 now with rendered stills with final character...
Avery Buffington
Aug 25, 20231 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 14
This week I worked mainly on the character model and texturing the Lineup of the original concept art, the new 3/4 sketch, the ZBrush...
Avery Buffington
Apr 28, 20232 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 13
This week I worked on finishing the hallway concept art and making a lighting variant of the studio concept art Finished Hallway Interior...
Avery Buffington
Apr 22, 20231 min read
Production Pass #3
Deliverables Presented: Animatic as of 4/21/2023 Room Model/Assembly by Carl Kinyon Moth Model by Brentan Elsenbrock Mirror Concept Art...
Avery Buffington
Apr 14, 20234 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 11 & 12
4/14/2023: This week I worked on the hall illustration and then worked on the hair for the character sculpt. While working on the hair...
Avery Buffington
Apr 7, 20231 min read
Thesis Production Blog Week 10
Today I worked on sketching out the Interior Hallway concept art to match the existing concept art of the studio. It is a work in...
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