A LONG WAY HOME, 3D Animation, 2021
A LONG WAY HOME is a short animation rendered in Blender with Cycles X. I utilized Blender for modeling of the robot and environment elements and then textured in Quixel Mixer and Adobe Substance Painter. The animation tells a bit of backstory on "AVI", the model X5 robot seen in the center of the scene.
The newspaper, instructional manual, and poster were all created in Adobe Photoshop using paper textures torn and photographed by myself.
Finally some color grading and noise were added in Lightroom (developed a matching LUT for Premier) to give the scene a more "cinematic" feel. Below is the original render output next to the final edit.
