Skim On West

My thesis film, HU's Game, won Grand Jury Award from International Student Film Festival Hollywood! I think I could get  an award because it's student film festival, but still this kind of awards always encourage me to keep creating a new film. International Student Film Festival Hollywood 

Hu's Game trailer from Shaun SeongYoung Kim on Vimeo . HU's Game(2012) 7min 33sec USC Cinematic Arts MFA'12 Thesis project Directed by Shaun Seong-young Kim Story & Storyboard/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Character & BG Design/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Character Modeling/ Do-young Kim Additional Character Modeling/ Shaun Seong-young Kim BG Modeling/ Sung-ho Lee Additional BG Modeling/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Character Texture/ So-young Yuck BG Texture/ Sung-ho Lee Animation/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Additional Animation/ So-young Yuck&Minseok Jeon Character Rigging/ Kevin Zheng Layout/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Lighting&Rendering/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Copositing&Effect/ Shaun Seong-young Kim Ending Title Sequence/ Simon Wilches Castro Music/ Zach Lemmon Sound Design/ Jin-hae Park Sound Coordinator/ Bethany Sparks Sound Mixing/ Christophe Nassif Voice over HU/ Daniel Thornton DOY/ Andrew Patterson MIKS Bros/Jay ...

Finally I start to render cave hall shots! It's way more dramatic and fun for lighting than imaginary world, which is pure white room.  Only hope is that the rendering goes faster than current pace.

This is "Default" lighting setup.  Plus, there are no occulusion, fog & particles, and depth pass yet.

Test Render with simple physical sky in Mentalray

Sometimes drawing thumbnail is useful, yet sometimes not. However, it's very obvious drawing these kinds of things helps me a lot to solidify clear movement in my head.

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Finally I start to render some shots!

This is the final version of lava, but there is no texture on wall yet.

Lighting study for thesis

Rocks don't have any texture yet, but lava texture development is almost there.

keep developing new drawing style for murals by Shaun S.Y. Kim + So-young Yuck

 MIKS  SOYO

Need to fix the highlight layer  Fixed highlight

Render Test with lights

Tree and Vines set up!

HU's rigging is done!! Looks great! Thanks, Kevin.

Revised Tree        Original tree Model