Simon Hildwein

I have been working on this short explanation video during the last time. This video explains a SEO product, and I came up with a story of a competition of all kind of flying objects in order to explain the competitive situation in the search engine rankings.

This shortfilm was realized during a period of 6 month as my final diploma project. I was responsible for all aspects, including story, design, modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, simulation, lighting, matte painting,rendering, compositing.

Music is composed by Anthony Raijekov.

The character rig is based on a mel script by Dustin Nelson, called “Rapid Rig”, which I modified a little bit. Here you can see a rough demonstration of it:

This is my last project. Its still a work in progress. I tried to achieve a photorealistic look, with mayas simple Shaders, no fancy mental ray stuff for my first attempt in car rendering. I know there are some issues with the shader, but since my goal is to truely understand all the  different aspects of the basic maya shaders, I believe that it ‘ll lead me to a better understanding of the advanced mental ray shader slots. Anyway later on I’ll get into this.

This one is a pretty high poly model with about 150.000 polys. And its stil not finished.

This is a Illustration project consisting of three images building a triptychon. The technique I used was graphit pencil on bristol board.

This was the final image for a contest on CGSociety.