“Zen” is an animated short set in a bamboo forest, where a mechanical samurai arrives upon a glade to practice a bamboo-cutting routine set to hip-hop fusion music.
I had the pleasure of sculpting and surfacing several nature props. After building and sculpting the landscape, I implemented team assets according to pre-production documents, supplemented with Quixel assets. Our short was rendered in Unreal Engine, proudly one of the first in a pipeline shift within Visualization at Texas A&M.
Watch Zen: Animated film link (Google Drive)
Season
Fall 2023
Team
Seth Erwin, Leo Martinez, Mabel Perez, Jaiden Williams, Mary Chen, Manny Edouard, Abigail Dunker, Jon Sullivan
Tools
Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Quixel, Unreal Engine 5
Role
Environment Lead, Layout Artist
