CHERRIE TSOI

The Koala Mattress TV commercial.

Responsible for koalas’ grooming

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Software: Houdini

Renderer: Redshift

Groomed in xGen Core.

Modeled by Francis Ogun.

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Software:Maya

Renderer:Arnold

Digital Double- Female medium curly hair created in Houdini. All grooms are created in one SOP network.

It is a project done for Synthesis AI, for use in synthetic data for computer vision and machine learning: http://synthesis.ai

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Software:
Houdini

Renderer:
Arnold

Digital Double- Male curly hair done in Houdini. It is a procedural grooming heavily driven by painted maps. All grooms are created in one SOP level. I have also created a custom UI, it allows you to create your desired look by adjusting the hair length, curliness and clumping.

It is a project done for Synthesis AI, for use in synthetic data for computer vision and machine learning: http://synthesis.ai

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Software:
Houdini

Renderer:
Arnold

A short created by Cherrie Tsoi.

Cloth Simulation: Cherrie Tsoi
Garment Design and Tailoring: Cherrie Tsoi
Shading & Texturing: Cherrie Tsoi
Props modeling: Cherrie Tsoi, Samantha Lee, Kennedy Kan
Lighting: Tony Cheung
Compositing: Tony Cheung, Cherrie Tsoi
Rigging: Lorenz Wan
Motion-Capture Actor: Cherrie Tsoi
Previz Motion-Capture Actor: CoCo Sin
Motion-Capture: Tony Cheung, Jessica Smith, Lorenz Wan
Motion-Capture Clean-Up: Tony Cheung
Layered Animation: Tony Cheung, Cherrie Tsoi
Story: Cherrie Tsoi
Sound Effects: Cherrie Tsoi
Music: Charles Trenet- La Mer, Eartha Kitt- C’est Si Bon

A short animation about an alive mannequin dancing in an antique shop. All cloth simulation and cloth modeling are done in Marvelous Designer. Animation is done by Motion Capture.

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Software:
Marvelous Designer
MAYA
Substance Painter
Vicon Blade
Motion Builder

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for grooming, texturing and lookdev.

This is my first grooming work done in Houdini. I created it base on the concept art from Gediminas Pranckevicius. Modeled in ZBrush by Kennedy Kan.

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Software:
Houdini
Substance Painter

Renderer:
Redshift

A short created by Cherrie Tsoi.

Grooming: Cherrie Tsoi
Hair Simulation: Cherrie Tsoi
Character Shading/ Texturing: Cherrie Tsoi
Set Shading/ Texturing: Cherrie Tsoi, Tony Cheung
Lighting: Tony Cheung
Animation: Wesley Tsang
Dog rig from Truong CG Artist

A film created for my senior project. Dogue is inspired by the high-end fashion shooting behind the scene videos. I tried to make the dog as a fashion icon. Groom of the dog was the biggest challenge in this project because the breed was originally a German Pinscher, but I am transforming it into a Giant Schnauzer.

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Software:
MAYA
Substance Painter
Photoshop

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for grooming, hair shading and dog texturing.

The grooming of the dog in DOGUE.

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Software:
MAYA XGen
Photoshop

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for ALL aspects.

This is a project of experiencing making dynamic curly hair in XGen. I firstly sculpted the character in ZBrush, then took the model to Maya and Houdini for hair simulation. Since there is no way to make a procedural curly guide in XGen, the curly guide is created in Houdini. An animated straight guide is also created and act as a linear wire. So the curly hair will not collapse but follow the movement of the straight guides. In addition, I also created a dynamic ear rig.

* I created a tutorial sheet about the workflow of making dynamic curly hair in XGen. Go to the tutorial page and check it out if interested!

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Software:
Houdini
MAYA
ZBrush
Photoshop

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for ALL aspects.

This is an exploration of textures of manmade objects. To approach the photorealistic creation, the models and textures are referencing real life objects. They are a mixture of procedural and hand-painted texture. I modeled the objects in Maya and rendered in Arnold. The brush fur is created in xGen.

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Software:
MAYA
Photoshop
Nuke

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for ALL aspects except plants and strawberries modelling.

This is an exploration of textures of organic objects that have subsurface scattering. The models and textures are referencing real life objects. The textures are mainly done procedurally in Arnold 4 and hand-painted in Photoshop. The mold is created in xGen.

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Software:
MAYA
Photoshop
ZBrush
Nuke

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for modeling, cloth simulation & lighting.
An experiment of nCloth with wind and various constraints. Used wrap and blendshape to drive the simulated objects.

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Software:
MAYA
Photoshop

Renderer:
Redshift

Responsible for can topology remesh, nCloth simulation, texturing

An experiment on combining low Restitution Angle with high Bend Resistance to simulate deforming metal. Can is remeshed in Houdini and Maya. The low-poly can is wrapped to the high-poly one. Also used blendshape to achieve better result. 

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Software:
Maya
Houdini
Photoshop

Renderer:
Redshift

Responsible for ALL aspects.

A R&D on the pressure and wind speed setting on nCloth to make it look inflated. The wind speed is driven by a MEL expression to give variation to the wind. 

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Software:
MAYA nCloth
Photoshop

Renderer:
Redshift

Responsible for ALL aspects.

This is the first ZBrush character I made, which is based on the concept by Dattaraj Kamat. He is an Indian old man wearing traditional kurta shirt and buffalo leather sandals. The character is mainly sculpted in ZBrush and partly modelled in MAYA. Retopologized in MAYA. Cloth Simulation in Marvelous Designer. Hair in XGen. Textured in Substance Painter. And rendered in Arnold.

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Software:
ZBrush
MAYA
Marvelous Designer
Substance Painter

Renderer:
Arnold

Responsible for ALL aspects.

A personal project that made in Houdini 15 combining different simulations. Responsible for ALL aspects. Made with POP, Rigid Body, and PYRO solver.

Jar and corks are modelled in MAYA. Wood logs are procedurally modelled in Houdini. Fireflies are made by scattering points as particles & instancing sphere to them. They are particles driven with zero gravity. The cork is pushed up by POP wind with velocity. 

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Software:
Houdini
After Effects

Renderer:
Mantra

Responsible for ALL aspects.

Still Life with an Ebony Chest was originally an oil painting done by the Spanish artist, Antonio de Pereda in 1652. 

I reproduced the painting in a digital photorealistic way in Renderman. I started off by doing research on the original painting, and then the modelling, lighting, shading and texturing work. Most of the objects are a mixture of procedural shader and photo texture. 

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Software:
MAYA
Photoshop

Renderer:
Renderman

Responsible for ALL aspects.

It is a SOP level procedural modelling and animation done in Houdini 15.

Find shortest path node is used to create the path of the ivy. And Carve is used  for the animation of the ivy growth. CHOP network is also established to make the growth of leaves.

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Software:
Houdini

Renderer:
Mantra