SKILLS

"If you are looking for ransom I can tell you, I only have Republic Credits. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills."

- Qui-Gon Mills, in Star Takers, The Taken Menace

My passion for creating art (specifically spaceships and sci-fi at the time) has started way back since primary school. Back then I only knew how to paint and draw on paper or canvas. Then in High School, I learnt 3D Modelling using Inventor.

Since my time at SAE, I have learnt how to create 2D Digital Art using Photoshop, and through learning Maya, I have developed my 3D Modelling skills even further.

PROGRAMS & TOOLS

UV Unwrapping

Current Rank: Enthusiastic Hobbyist

"If you like skinning animals and creating architectural plans. UV Unwrapping is your guy! I on the other hand would rather not do either but wouldn't mind unwrapping some UVs."

- Johnny Jib, the Intrepid Explorer

Next Goal: More Efficient UV Layout

Programming

Current Rank: Visual Basic Stowaway

"Programming is like Dark Souls. Every death fuels pain and agony, yet manages to be irritatingly motivating every time. But when it finally works... my god it works.

Light always shines the brightest after the Darkest of Storms."

Next Goal: Learn a Coding Language

Digital Painting

Current Rank: Somewhat Beginner

"Like Traditional Paintings yet different. They live their lives in the digital realm; but still they extend their influence into the physical world."

Next Goal: Color Blending Bender

Modelling: High Poly

Current Rank: Beginner

"Superb Surface Detail. But with great amounts of vertices comes the need for great lengths of control."

Next Goal: Edge Loop Master

Paper Drawing / Sketching

Current Rank: Doodler

"Through Sketching, we illustrate ideas. Through ideas we communicate vision. Through Vision, we see that his death in Infinity War was the absolute worst...

To sacrifice yourself for the world, to let yourself be killed by your most loved one. Only to re-live that entire sequence again, but to see the Mad Titan gain what he desires, and to only know that your sacrifice was in vain."

Next Goal: Improve Anatomy

3D Animation

Current Rank: Decent

"Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one."

Next Goal: Master of the Curves

Video Editing

Current Rank: After Effects Stowaway

"To write is human, to edit is divine."

- Stephen King

Next Goal: VFX Manipulator

Rigging

Current Rank: Human IK Worker

"Spooky Scary Skeletons would be less spooky and less scary if they weren't rigged."

Next Goal: Custom Rigging

Worldbuilder

Current Rank: Dreamer

"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."

- H.F. Hedge

Next Goal: Lore Writer

Pixel Art

Current Rank: Simple Pixel Art

"Our pursuit of the grand high resolutions have led us to the culling of these so-called pixel imperfections... Pixel Art aims to harness these imperfections to reflect their respective global constants and to represent an alternative perspective to the established form."

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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

- Leonard Cohen

Next Goal: Pixel-Style Texturing

Modelling: Low Poly

Current Rank: Enthusiastic Advocator

"Ahh the simplicity of low poly assets. There's just something about the way they carry themselves. Their style... Class... You'd just better make sure their texturing holds together when put under the magnifying glass or it could go south real fast."

- Posh Poly Gentleman

Next Goal: Optimize Topology

Texture Maps

Current Rank: All-Rounder

"So this customer comes in and tells me they want to sew the leather back onto an animal. And I'm just sitting here all like: what? why would I do that?

Then they have the nerve to pay me up front for 'No Questions asked'. What a weird day."

- Miles McMiles

Next Goal: Creating Realistic Textures

2D Animation

Current Rank: Carbot Zergling

"You're not supposed to animate drawings. You're supposed to animate feelings."

- Ollie Johnston

Next Goal: Orbiting Camera

Pixel Animation

Current Rank: Beginner

"Pixels in Motion. Semiotics at its finest."

- Semiotics Enthusiast