Siran Liu

Reel Breakdown: 1. Industry Works: (1) The Mill, 2013 Fall 3D Artist Intern: Call of Duty: Ghost Trailer "Epic Night Out". Duties: Modeling, Texture and LookDevelopment for digital environment and assets. (part of the debris, and space assets) Sony - Join Together. Duties: Lighting, Modeling, Texture and LookDevelopment for digital assets.(driver's helmet, part of the bacmono car, part of the spaceship and crushed ground) Tools: Maya, Mudbox, Arnold, Nuke (2) LAIKA/House, 2013 Summer Lighting and Look Development Intern: Honey Nut Cheerios, Must be the Honey - Office Remixed. Duties: Lighting and Look Development Tools: Maya, MetalRay, Nuke 2. Lighting and Compositing, Texture Painting, Look Development for short animation film "Sleddin". (2013 SIGGRAPH CAF Best Student Project Runners-Up, Accepted into 2013 New York City International Film Festival, 2013 Aurora Picture Show ) Tools: Maya, ZBrush, Renderman, Photoshope, Nuke 3. 3D Illustration, Lighting and Mood Study (responsible for everything except some of the models) Tools: Maya, ZBrush, Renderman, Photoshop, Nuke 4. C++ Raytracer I coded for VIZA 656 (Spring 2013) Image Synthesis Class (features includes: Lambert & Phong shading, Texture & Bump Mapping, Raytraced Soft Shadows, Specular & Glossy Reflection, Refraction & Translucent Effects, Iridescence Effects, Ambient Occlusion, Depth of Field) 5. Master Thesis on Non-Photorealistic Render. All shaders are developed in RSL (Renderman Shading Language), final renders composited by Nuke. (for more information on this project please visit: http://www.siranliu.com/#!my-thesis/cfo6 ) Tools: Maya, Renderman, Nuke 6. 'Ladybug' - Character Development, Lighting and Compositing(Design, Modeling & Look Development) for short film 'A Case of the Munchies' (Summer Industry Project with DreamWorks Animation Studios. Duties: Modeling, Surfacing and Lighting Lead in this group project. Accepted into 2012 SIGGRAPH Dailies, full video: vimeo.com/48076056) Tools: Maya, ZBrush, Renderman, Photoshop, After Effects 7. 'Cookie' - Character Development(Design, Modeling & Look Development) for Digital Compositing Class (materials are mainly made with procedural shading using multiple layers of noises) Tools: Maya, Renderman, Photoshop, Nuke

Reel Breakdown: 1. Texture Painting and Look Development for short animation film "Sleddin". (2013 SIGGRAPH CAF Best Student Project Runners-Up, Accepted into 2013 New York City International Film Festival, 2013 Aurora Picture Show ) Tools: Maya, ZBrush, Renderman, Photoshope, Nuke 2. Industry Works: (1) The Mill, 2013 Fall 3D Artist Intern: Call of Duty: Ghost Trailer "Epic Night Out". Duties: Modeling, Texture and LookDevelopment for digital environment and assets. (part of the debris, and space assets) Sony - Join Together. Duties: Lighting, Modeling, Texture and LookDevelopment for digital assets.(driver's helmet, part of the bacmono car, part of the spaceship and crushed ground) Tools: Maya, Mudbox, Arnold, Nuke (2) LAIKA/House, 2013 Summer Lighting and Look Development Intern: Honey Nut Cheerios, Must be the Honey - Office Remixed. Duties: Lighting and Look Development Tools: Maya, MetalRay, Nuke 3. C++ Raytracer I coded for VIZA 656 (Spring 2013) Image Synthesis Class (features includes: Lambert & Phong shading, Texture & Bump Mapping, Raytraced Soft Shadows, Specular & Glossy Reflection, Refraction & Translucent Effects, Iridescence Effects, Ambient Occlusion, Depth of Field) 4. Master Thesis WIP on Non-Photorealistic Render. All shaders are developed in RSL (Renderman Shading Language) (for more information on this project please visit: http://www.siranliu.com/#!my-thesis/cfo6 ) Tools: Maya, Renderman, Nuke 5. 'Ladybug' - Character Development(Design, Modeling & Look Development) for short film 'A Case of the Munchies' (Summer Industry Project with DreamWorks Animation Studios. Duties: Modeling, Surfacing and Lighting Lead in this group project. Accepted into 2012 SIGGRAPH Dailies, full video: vimeo.com/48076056) Tools: Maya, ZBrush, Renderman, Photoshop, After Effects 6. 3D Illustration, Lighting and Mood Study (responsible for everything except some of the models) Tools: Maya, ZBrush, Renderman, Photoshop, Nuke 7. 2D Arts

Living Chinese Ink Painting - Jiangnan, is an animation sequence result from my master thesis at Texas A&M Viz lab: 'Chinese Ink Painting with Film Lighting Aesthetics in 3D Computer Graphics'. The thesis is aiming explore the artistic possibility of applying film lighting aesthetics in Chinese ink painting using 3D computer graphis as medium. To get the painterly render result, I used a combined solution of developing custom NPR shaders in Renderman and digital compositing in Nuke. Software used includes: Maya, Renderman, Nuke, Photoshop.