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Monster Moray
Date
February 2025
Location
Think Tank Training Centre - Vancouver, BC
Software
Houdini, Karma, Maya, ZBrush, Mari, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Nuke, Gaea, Storyboarder, Davinci Resolve
Mentor
Babak Bina
Mentorship Final at Think Tank Training Centre!
My last project at Think Tank, and the one I saved to be my “go-nuts-have-fun” piece. After working on something smaller last term, I knew I wanted to go big. When I found Antonio J. Manzanedo’s Sea Beast, I was immediately hooked. A monstrous, transparent creature? Yes, please. I set out to build it from the inside out: skeleton, organs, veins, hand-crafted procedural scales, all wrapped up in a deep sea nightmare.
This project was also a bit of a tribute to my dad, a fisherman and my biggest supporter throughout my time at Think Tank. The subject matter just felt right.
After talking with my mentor, Babak Bina, this project also became a crash course in Houdini and Solaris. We took on the challenge of rendering the entire piece using Houdini’s Karma renderer, adding another layer of complexity (and excitement) to the final push.
