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Production-Related Projects

Multiple-component work entailing surfacing, lighting, and framing

Surfacing and Scene Creation in Unreal Engine 4

Pierre the Fox lounges at his castle.

This is a surfacing exercise organized as a level an Unreal Engine 4 project and rendered with UE's Sequencer. The scene geometry consists of my fox model and components of a castle model (https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1089830). I created the stone wall and grass texture maps in Substance Designer and used Substance Painter to texture Pierre the Fox.

The following PDF has details and additional images of the different components of the project.

Mari and Ptex Surfacing and Portrait Lighting of Chopin’s Monument in Warsaw

Using the 3D model of the Frederic Chopin monument in Łazienki Park, Warsaw, Poland from the "Scan the World" project (https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-warsaw-chopin-3317), I reduced and smoothed the mesh in preparation for painting in Mari. In Mari I baked paint to the model and exported a Ptex texture. Using Pixar's RenderMan 22 through Maya 2018, I assigned a material using the texture and set up 3-point, portrait loop lighting (on Chopin's face around the first and last frames).

The following PDF has details and additional images of the different components of the project.

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Selected Still Images

Traditional and digital sketches, 3D modeling, and graphic design

(2019) Pencil and charcoal sketch of a magpie.	(2019) Fan-art of Dug the dog from Pixar's Up that received a prize in an intern competition.	(2019) A warrior hummingbird painting I created for the Pixar Employee Art Gallery during my time interning at Pixar.
A piece centered around the idea of "extraordinary gifts," reflecting upon the social behavior of crows, and displaying the colors that shine within black feathers.	(2019) Photograph of a blind Merlin at the Carolina Raptor Center.	(2018) A drawing of a woman from my first figure-drawing session. I attended this during my time at Weta Digital.
(2019) An ink and watercolor drawing of a German Shepherd dressed up nicely.	(2019) A customized version of the Pokemon creature, Lugia.	(2018) Reference sketches for the Pierre the Fox 3D model which I used for a couple of projects.
(2018) A drawing of a man from my second figure-drawing session. I attended this during my time at Weta Digital.	(2016) An illustration depicting the meaningful transition between UNCW and Clemson University.	(2018) Personal 3D model project using Maya and Pixar's Renderman renderer.
(2017) A dynamic sketch focusing on the wild movement of a wolf.	(2017) An animated walking werewolf sprite used in C++ SDL2 projects.	(2016) A storyboard of an animation short idea on programming triggering magical powers in a pet snake so it could find its master at work.
(2016) My entry for an on-campus apartment complex 10-year anniversary shirt design, using 100% my art based off of the UNCW Sammy the Seahawk mascot.	(2015) A rendered image of my final 3D modeling project, Reckon the Demon. Created in Maya.	(2017) A sketch I made based on a saying a friend taught me while I was in Germany for an internship.
(2013) A piece of fantasy and fan-art of the band Dream Theater.	(2015) My first 3D modeling project, using Maya.	(2014) This paper collage was created as a project for a 2-D design course. It received the 1st place award in the Congressional Art Competition for the 6th District of North Carolina.
(2015) A sketch of a demon character.	(2015) A of the front-and-back cards of a graphic design course project using images I had taken.	(2012) A graphite sketch edited digitally. This is my interpretation of a gryphon with dragon-like traits.
(2014) An illustration of a Star Wars inspired Sith Lord version of myself.	(2014) First designed for new staff shirts upon the personal request of the RECHS principal, this design is now the new official RECHS logo.	(2015) A T-shirt design for the Quidditch team at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. This design was printed on and sold as T-shirts.
(2014) A mockingbird mascot made as part of a logo option for a marketing company.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

during Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

JESSICA BARON

PROJECT PAGE

ARTWORK

Production-Related Projects

Multiple-component work entailing surfacing, lighting, and framing

Selected Still Images

Traditional and digital sketches, 3D modeling, and graphic design

(2019) Pencil and charcoal sketch of a magpie.

(2019) Fan-art of Dug the dog from Pixar's Up that received a prize in an intern competition.

(2019) A warrior hummingbird painting I created for the Pixar Employee Art Gallery during my time interning at Pixar.

A piece centered around the idea of "extraordinary gifts," reflecting upon the social behavior of crows, and displaying the colors that shine within black feathers.

(2019) Photograph of a blind Merlin at the Carolina Raptor Center.

(2018) A drawing of a woman from my first figure-drawing session. I attended this during my time at Weta Digital.

(2019) An ink and watercolor drawing of a German Shepherd dressed up nicely.

(2019) A customized version of the Pokemon creature, Lugia.

(2018) Reference sketches for the Pierre the Fox 3D model which I used for a couple of projects.

(2018) A drawing of a man from my second figure-drawing session. I attended this during my time at Weta Digital.

(2016) An illustration depicting the meaningful transition between UNCW and Clemson University.

(2018) Personal 3D model project using Maya and Pixar's Renderman renderer.

(2017) A dynamic sketch focusing on the wild movement of a wolf.

(2017) An animated walking werewolf sprite used in C++ SDL2 projects.

(2016) A storyboard of an animation short idea on programming triggering magical powers in a pet snake so it could find its master at work.

(2016) My entry for an on-campus apartment complex 10-year anniversary shirt design, using 100% my art based off of the UNCW Sammy the Seahawk mascot.

(2015) A rendered image of my final 3D modeling project, Reckon the Demon. Created in Maya.

(2017) A sketch I made based on a saying a friend taught me while I was in Germany for an internship.

(2013) A piece of fantasy and fan-art of the band Dream Theater.

(2015) My first 3D modeling project, using Maya.

(2014) This paper collage was created as a project for a 2-D design course. It received the 1st place award in the Congressional Art Competition for the 6th District of North Carolina.

(2015) A sketch of a demon character.

(2015) A of the front-and-back cards of a graphic design course project using images I had taken.

(2012) A graphite sketch edited digitally. This is my interpretation of a gryphon with dragon-like traits.

(2014) An illustration of a Star Wars inspired Sith Lord version of myself.

(2014) First designed for new staff shirts upon the personal request of the RECHS principal, this design is now the new official RECHS logo.

(2015) A T-shirt design for the Quidditch team at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. This design was printed on and sold as T-shirts.

(2014) A mockingbird mascot made as part of a logo option for a marketing company.