For this project I produced a one-minute, seamlessly looping animation that evokes a warm, handcrafted feel: a paper-cut-out style moonlit oasis. 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, stars, trees, dunes, ect, in Adobe Illustrator, then extruded and refined them as low-poly geometry inside Blender. Textures were created in Adobe Substance Painter, with additional shader work done in UE5. Finally, I assembled the scene in Unreal Engine 5, animating various elements and adding in animated water, wind and fire effects 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