Weeks 9-10 Dates: 11/5/25-11/12/25 Research My last assignment for this project is the Press-Kit. Since we plan to submit the film for festivals, the press-kit will be useful for that. I consulted with several websites to figure out what best to do for the press-kit. I found some from possible templates that could be used. The vast majority of images that I thought looked the best were from Canva and after another search for top press kit making sites, I found that Canva was

Weeks 7-8 Dates: 10/15/25-10/30/25 Modeling 2 and Texturing My first order of business was to texture the sconce I had made. However, after bringing the original model into Substance Painter, I found that I didn't like the shape, and I wanted to model a different version. Below is a before and after: Liking the new model better, I took it into Substance Painter and textured it. I wanted it to look like oxidized copper and appear very old. I checked with the tech lead o

Weeks 5–6 Dates: 10/02/25-10/15/25 Lighting These past two weeks, my job has shifted to be focused on lighting and modeling. The team had a few ideas in mind about what the lighting might look like. But mainly, there was a general idea that we wanted there to be god rays. The main sources of inspiration my professor and I were drawn to were these images: And after speaking with the director, Todd, I received these images to use as inspiration: There were a lot of diffe

Weeks 3–4 Dates: 9/18/25-10/02/25 Boards For this block of two weeks, I was working on storyboards and posters. I have never done storyboards, so this was a learning experience for me. In the end, my storyboards were drawn over, but I will describe my experience with them anyway. Another person, Pravav, did the original pass at the storyboards. Then, the director of photography and the director of our film met to discuss the camera movements and came to me and Pranav w

Weeks 1–2 Dates: 9/8/25-9/17/25 Original pitch contributions The original idea for this short film was conceived as a group effort...

Final Adjustments

Combing the Water Render, Glass Render, and Bubble Render

Water Render Tests. Glass Render Tests.

Making the bubbles.

Updating the splash dynamic to match the reference.

Shaping Stream The shape of my water stream is too spread out, and changing fluid settings wasn't helping Guiding Geometry and Fluid...

Fixing Collision creating air-tight proxy geometry. proxy geometry made from a revolved curve increasing size collision detection type:...

Collision For my collision object,  I used the higher cup as the main collision and turned the voxel density in the collision source low...

Modeling Starting off with a basic model of my deer and the cups. I plan on finessing the deer more as I progress, to make the body look...

Inspiration/References and Plan of Attack For this project, I wanted to work on a liquid simulation. I looked at several kinds of liquids...