Inspired by everyday moments and brought to life with playful, cartoonish imagination, the film follows a father’s emotional journey as he explores the inner world of his child and grows along the way.
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Told as a whimsical musical filled with surreal visuals and heartfelt songs, the story shares humor and warmth that connect across generations — offering joy to children and deep empathy to parents.
My Responsibilities:
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Crafted and set-dressed photorealistic Volcanic terrain.
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Procedurally modelled volcano, terrain, and lava sim in Houdini.
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Authored shaders and configured assets in UE5 for dynamic real-time effects, enabled fine-tuning and art direction adjustments.
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Created a custom Editor Utility Widget for instant terrain editing.
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Crafted various VFX from particles to full-screen effects.
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Previs sequences.
Previs sequence showcasing the volcanic terrain and dynamic effects running in real-time.
Creating the terrain using different layers in Houdini. Using masked lava regions to spawn points, and exporting as Alembic into UE5 for PCG to emit lava bursts VFX.
Baking shallow water sim vector fields attributes into the normals of the terrain geometry. Lastly, recalculating the vector fields into radian angles, and transferring the float values onto the vertex color R channel.
In the UE5 custom shader, I unpacked the radian angles back into XY vectors to feed as the Flowmap UV, achieving flowmap results without the need for texture maps.
Art-directable real-time effects with mesh distance fields, enabling interactions between scene objects and the terrain lava.
Editor Utility Widget that automatically assigns the RenderTarget of the Top-View of the terrain into Photoshop. Artists can paint terrain regions that will be flattened with WPO. This allows real-time edits on landscaping for buildings with correct occlusion with the terrain.