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Senior Thesis

Fighter Kites is a senior short film about a young kite fighter. The shadows from passing fighter jets replace those of kites which once freely owned the sky. The girl brings together the other young kite fighters of the village to cast their kites to the sky, not to fight, but rather to divert the pilots away from their beloved village. The girl learns that unity is more powerful than cutting each other’s lines.

Production III Blog Post #8

This week I've been animating my shots. I've finished 3 shots from scene 1. These are all rendered and ready in the animatic For scene 2,...

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Apr 17, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #7

For this weeks blog post, I spent the past weekend set dressing the destroyed school scene. We received a lot of feedback regarding the...

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Apr 10, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #6

For this weeks blog post, I finished a couple shots from scene 8, I set dressed and lit these shots. Additionally I made the poster for...

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Mar 27, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #5

This week I spent all my time on set dressing and rendering. I UV'ed/textured the interior school building, I textured the desks, podium...

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Mar 6, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #4

For this week, I finished texturing all of the kites. I also textured the spool as well. I'm starting to prepare the first scene for set...

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Mar 6, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #3

This week I began UV'ing the other kites and texturing them for our next production pass. The goal is to get the interior kite building...

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Feb 7, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #2

After finishing texturing the main school building, we decided to switch gears and focus on the fight scene of the short as it is the ...

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Jan 31, 20241 min read

Production III Blog Post #1

Starting off the new year strong this semester by focusing the team on the intro hero shot. We split the workload according to tweaks...

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Jan 24, 20241 min read

Production II Blog Post #10

I dedicated this week to finishing my shots. I was assigned 10 shots from Scene 3, which revolve around the main character discorvering...

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Dec 8, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #9

Prior to our last Production Pass, I worked on modeling and texturing the Roc. I ran into some issues last minute, I finished texturing...

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Dec 1, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #8

This week I have been modeling the bird for our short. We decided for a "papercraft" stylized look and feel. Finally I got to implement a...

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Nov 10, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #7

I've dedicated this week to shading and texturing hero assets for the short. I spent two days texturing the main character. I referenced...

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Nov 3, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #6

This week I finished editing the animatic based on peoples advice. I shortened the fight scene and made it less complicated, I added a...

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Oct 20, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #5

After being out sick for a week and a half I haven't been the most productive but I spent most of this week focusing on look dev for the...

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Oct 13, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #4

Leading up to the production pass I finished all the shots in the layout animatic and Jay stitched the clips all together. With the...

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Oct 7, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #3

This week, I continued working on the rendered animatic. I really wanted to make this iteration of the animatic more readable to the...

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Sep 24, 20232 min read

Production II Blog Post #2

This week I primarily focused on modeling some clothes for the main character of our short. I wanted to have decent topology, as well as...

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Sep 16, 20231 min read

Production II Blog Post #1

Over the summer I finished the bird base mesh in Maya, I focused on primary and secondary shapes in wing feathers and tail feathers. The...

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Sep 8, 20231 min read

Production I Blog Post #10

I am starting the base mesh for the bird model. A modular building from the concepts I made last week. I need to make a concept for the...

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Apr 28, 20231 min read

Production I Blog Post #9

This week I finished the kite variations. I modeled different tails and fins. I also UV'ed all of them as well. I think texturing these 4...

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Apr 19, 20231 min read