CJ McKenzie
3D ARTIST
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A Noteworthy Chaos
Short film
Produced for Advanced Animation Production
Modeled in Maya
Textured in Substance Painter
Rendered using Redshift
Production Team: Mei Harter, Peculiar Ayankule, Asher Huth, CJ McKenzie
As a team, we agreed we wanted the look of our film to push our knowledge of the technical pipeline with films like Flow and Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse in mind. To create the look of the film, I imported the models for all instruments and set pieces into Adobe Substance Painter and painted the normal maps to create the painterly texture while being able to edit the color of the surface. Once I connected the textures to the models in Maya, I used contour nodes and a Redshift toon shader to create the halftone pattern and outline on the objects. I also created a standard light rig that could be imported into every scene and manipulated based upon the subject.

MODELS FROM THE FILM
I modeled the Trombone, Trumpet, Piano, Drums, Risers, and Xylophone and textured all of the set and props.






