After being bitten by a parasite, a person falls in love with themselves to the point of self-destruction.
Tools
Maya, Substance Painter, Zbrush, After Effects, Houdini, Optitrack Motion Capture, Redshift
Looking Glass is a 3D animated film created in collaboration with choreographer Craig Hollamon and dancer Sasha Rivera, using motion capture to translate live performance into animation. Influenced by Flying Lotus’s Until the Quiet Comes, the project explores how choreographed movement and performance capture can function as emotional storytelling tools within 3D animation.
Motion capture was recorded in the USC SCA Performance Capture Lab using OptiTrack cameras. The captured movement was later retargeted in Maya and used as the foundation for a procedural vein growth system simulated in Houdini.
The parasite was modeled and rigged in Maya, refined in ZBrush, and textured in Substance Painter.
The character design was visually influenced by the costume designs of Eiko Ishioka and photography of Zhong Lin.
