The Quantum Thief - CGI Trailer Project

Adapted from the novel by Hannu Rajaniemi.
A collaboration effort between myself and two other designers.

 Project goal was to create an animated trailer for a science fiction novel with no current visual adaptations or media. 

I was responsible for the three characters (modeling, rigging, texturing, animation), as well as some additional object texturing, compositing, and animating.

(Handshake and gun raise shots utilized motion capture data. Backgrounds/inanimate objects are my teammates' work.)

This is a college assignment where the goal was to design a completely non-anthropomorphic robot and give it a specific moment where it begins "thinking" for the first time - changing from robotic motions to more fluid movements. This robot is a trash-treasure sorter that contemplates if a garbage can itself is garbage.

Modeled/rigged in Maya and textured in Substance Painter.

I had the opportunity to work on this film during my time as an intern at Neo-Pangea. It was designed to answer a question that grows more and more common as technology advances: 

What will the world look like once AI has outlasted humanity?

Created in Blender 3D, background track is from the Portal series developed by Valve