Plushie Pals (2023)

Plushie Pals was a collaborative project where I had the opportunity to go to CMU's Entertainment Technology Center and work together with ETC grad students. I learned so much from this experience, especially because it was the first time I got to see how the entire animation pipeline, from character design to compositing, worked together to create a final piece. We also got acquainted with identifying and mitigating risks that we found during the project, and although we unfortunately didn't get to render everything out (due to fur/hair simulations some frames took 50 min. to render), I am still satisfied with what I was able to learn throughout this project.

Over the course of the semester, I was in charge of storyboarding, character design, rigging, and helped animate some scenes like the playblast below.