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This is my team's final project for CSE 40166 Computer Graphics. Written in THREE.js, our goal was to mimic the portal effect from the video game Portal. My responsibilitieis for the project included mapping the views from two invisible cameras onto the portal surface and cropping them so that only the objects contained within the boundary of the other portal are actually shown. You can view the code for this project here.

This project is a script for Autodesk Maya that allows for easier creation of materials from Substance Painter textures (or any other generic textures) in a MayaUSD scene. The program was created using a combination of the Maya API, the OpenUSD API and PySide2. You can view and downwload the code here.

The program includes an easy to use user interface that can detect Substance Painter generated textures and apply them as a new material in an anonymous USD layer. This project was completed as a part of an independent study on OpenUSD.

This project is a combination Maya scene and MEL script. The project allows for a user to generate multiple configurations of a low poly mountain forest landscape. You can download the project file here. Open the scene and execute the dpepple script to use the program.

This project was created using the OpenMaya Python API as well as the Maya cmds library. The program includes a user interface developed using Pyside2. The plugin includes 3 Python files. MagicFloorNode.py is a plugin file that defines the custom Maya node that allows the program to operate. This must be loaded in to Maya using the plugin manager. To activate the UI, run Main.py using the script editor. Download the files here.

The user interface has several options. First, you must select a locator object to use as a proximity measure for your magic floor effect. The top menu lets you do this, and lets you create one as well. The bottom section allows you to create a square tile pattern. The tiles will be placed exactly one unit apart from each other. If you want to use a custom tile arrangement, just ensure that all tiles are seperate objects. Tile proxmimity is measured from the locator position to the position of the objects pivot. Finally, the middle menu allows you to apply the magic floor effect to any selected tiles and the locator defined in the first menu. The magic floor effect can be selected to lift the tiles in Y when they are far away, or not to.

This is a plug-in for Maya that I wrote that provides an internal video player window that allows you to view your rendered frames as a video and compile them into a .avi file. You can access the GitHub for this project here. Instructions for installation can be found in the README for the repository.

This project is a work in progress.

Tex, THX's robot mascot, frequently appeared in THX trailers before films in the 1990s and 2000s. This project attempted to recreate a simpler version of those animations in Maya. Responsible for all rigging and animation.

This is an animation of the Batmobile from Batman Arkham Asylum. The fire was created using a Bifrost Aero node graph and was rendered in Arnold.

Some random projects from when I was learning Houdini.