For this project I produced a one-minute, seamlessly looping animation that evokes a warm, handcrafted feel: a paper-cut-out style steampunk airship gliding through layered a cloudscape. The brief called for a cosy, book-illustration aesthetic that could be used as an atmospheric background visual for a narrated story.

The workflow blended 2D vector craft with 3D real-time rendering. I drew base shapes, clouds and hull silhouettes, in Adobe Illustrator, then extruded and refined them as low-poly geometry inside Blender. Additional airship details were modelled directly in Blender. Textures were created in Adobe Substance Painter, with additional shader work done in UE5. Finally, I assembled the scene in Unreal Engine 5, layering cloud planes, animating the airship’s gentle bob and propeller spin, particle effects and cloth sim for the flag as well as tuning lighting and post-process effects to achieve a soft, storybook atmosphere.

SOFTWARE USED:

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Substance Painter

• Blender

• Unreal Engine 5