Scream Writers (2023)

Scream Writers is a short produced by Columbia College Chicago's senior capstone class, Animation Production Studio.

My roles in the production were Technical Director, Animator, Compositor, 3D Modeler, Cleanup/Color

Scream Writers | Animation Reel

Scream Writers | Animation Clean up Reel

Scream Writers | Compositing Reel

Scream Writers | Full Film

3D Layout Fly-through

Early concept of the house layout

Reference 3D Model for living room

Custom Node Groups

During Scream Writers, we had a "node group library". Which was a bunch of node group presets I set up for for our team to easily copy and paste into their scenes (Ex: node presets for Graves's ghost look). Some node groups, like my "Advanced Shading", was made to replace both the "highlight" and "tone" nodes; my node group gave me control of the blend modes and correction layers built in.

Palette Swap Shading Demo

This is a demo I made for the team to explain how to us palette swap shader. This node group works by making highlights/shadows using the pre-established colors chosen by our art director: Cathleen Cosajay (@Paperghastly)

Advanced Shading Node Internals

Node tree for one shot's compositing

Scream Writers | Technical Director Introduction

Concept Art