December 2025

The idea of my final project is aim to create a sunken city under the sea; character grow with fish’s fin to able to swimming under the water. The fish will be half transparent. Animation duration will be above 1 minute.

Reference board

Story board

Character

https://www.canva.com/design/DAG1BVr7Gz8/5z9tpBOpTA-RgNlf3O4TJw/edit?utm_content=DAG1BVr7Gz8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

You can find the breakdown and final render video from this canva link.

Organic modelling

1. zb organic modeling (Make basic shape – zremash – add details

2. maya zb organic modeling ( add reference images – use quad draw tool )

Organic modelling skull

Introduce SP workflow

Import low poly model (obj/fbx) – bake mash maps (combine high ploy with low poly if you have one) – add texture

Introduction of alpha brush, mask and material.

Cabin texture

After modeling in Maya and fixed the UV map, I separate the material in different parts use maya standerd surface.

Then I import the cabin fbx file to SP, use smart material as wood texture, then add dirt mask and mod mask.

Import model and modeling in UE5

I learned how to modeling in UE5 from tutorial, and how to import FBX/OBJ model in UE5/Maya with texture.

Landscape

Landscape material

Create two material function – combine then in a new material – add layers in landscape – draw in different layer.

Water system in UE5

We learned water system setup, architecture

Single layer water material and editing waves

Adding floating blueprint static mash

Foliage workflows

Add static mashs in foliage mode

Different type of foliage – material driven grass/ procedural foliage

Roto

3 basic roto set up

Roto assessment

roto with different parts, add motion blue while character moving fast

Maggie_man_running_roto_task.mov

2D/2.5D/3D tracking

Resize type

Sinc4

Lots of sharpening, often too much sharpening

Lanczos6

Moderate amount of sharpening over 6 pixels. Good for scaling down.

Lanczos4

Small amount of sharpening over 4 pixels. Good for scaling down.

Rifman

Moderate smoothing and high sharpening. Typically too hard on the sharpening in many situations.

Simon

Some smoothing and moderate sharpening. Excellent choice for many situations.

Keys

Some smoothing plus minor sharpening, decent choice for general transformations.

Anisotropic

High quality filter. Performs well with high angle surfaces. Only available in 3D nodes.

Cubic

​Nuke default filter. Pixels receive some smoothing, leading to predictable results. Often too smooth.

Mitchell

Moderate smoothing, low sharpening, with a slight blur. Changes pixel values even with no movement. ​

Notch

High amounts of flat smoothing. Good for hiding buzzing or moire patterns. Changes pixel values even with no movement

Parzen

Lots of smoothing. Changes pixel values even with no movement.

How to add grade and transform

Right way of bounding box

Planner tracking assessment

Relative path