Mike Orrico

Animated typography on live footage. Very fun and creative exercise. This was done through my Nikon for the footage, and the typography and compositing was done in After Effects.

Skills Used

Typography Animation / Editing & Compositing

I’m extremely happy how this one turned out! I saw an old ad that was selling a vintage liquor and I got inspired by it. I really loved the colors and presentation of the ad so I tried to capture that within my piece. I feel like it was a great exercise!

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Material Design / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Photo Compositing

Say hello to Joe! I really enjoyed creating the textures and materials for this one. Joe was a great character to come to life within this piece as well!

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation

This was a challenge I presented myself with which was a really fun exercise. The challenge was to render, composite, and finalize a life style picture with one of our products in frame all under the deadline of 30 minutes with the current assets I had. Really proud of this one!

An interior scene to practice composition, materials, and lighting. I was inspired by 70’s & 60’s interiors and pulled some simple forms and designs from those periods. Tiny details in fabric and other surfaces were fun to explore within this piece.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Interior Design / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Photo Compositing

Life is good licensee requested models, lifestyles, and production quality work on short notice so I decided to deliver! Here is single shots from much bigger collection.

Another fun personal piece that I’m really happy with. I thought creating a CD material in 3D software would be a very interesting challenge and it was! Mix that with a soft spot in my heart for vintage advertisements, I turned this into a Compact Disc advertisement as for fun since it looked fitting. I had so much fun with creating this one. I’m really happy with what I learned within this personal challenge and how the piece turned out!

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Material Research & Design / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Photo Compositing

A mock cologne advert made in Blender. I focused more on presentation within this piece rather than complex modeling/sculpting.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation

I modeled and sculpted an antique 1922 coin. I created two models, one being fairly pristine and aged while the other has added wear & tear and harsh damage to the coin overall. Below are the maps created from the initial sculpt prior to scene setup and rendering.

A bathroom interior that was inspired by an old furniture magazine. I enjoyed exploring the colors coming in from the natural light. I kept the bathroom colors fairly muted because I wanted the colors from the natural light to essentially act like paint on a blank canvas.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Interior Design / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Photo Compositing

I like the look of older style designs that were implemented into household products. I remember this old coffee machine I had and wanted to try and model it from memory. I added old scratch and wear effects layered on top of the render in post. Thanks for all the hot cups of coffee you’ve made me

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

Creative Challenge that I’m very proud to have pursue, really loved doing something in outer space.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / 3D Sculpting / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

Texture and Material practice while also managing the scene file size was the challenge with this one. I was trying to streamline a nice workflow for texturing, rendering, and lighting. This was a render I produced as a raw result without any required photo-retouching in post-production. I really enjoyed working on this one and I am really happy how the textures turned out!

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation

3D Photo-Scanned sewer. Re-topology was also done to make the model more efficient while still retaining the detail through effective edge flows and proper texture/UV maps. Optimized my workflow for 3D scanning objects with this piece and was a great learning experience project.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / 3D Photogrammetry / Retopology / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

Exploring and playing around with materials and simple but sleek designs. I also wanted to explore glass materials and how they react with photo-based light methods rather than using different types of light sources without IBL methods.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation

While developing and optimizing a real-time character for Unreal Engine, I began my process in researching and developing proper cloth physics with the characters custom collision system. I wanted to ensure that there was no clipping errors with the character’s clothing and that it would react and move appropriately to the physics, motion capture, and rig.

The shaders are currently just placeholder. Finalized materials will be created and optimized through Substance Painter & Designer.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Motion Capture / Weight Painting / Collision Detection / Cloth Physics / Rigging / Polygon Optimization / Character Design / Unreal Engine

An interior with a Sci-Fi touch which I initially sketched out on a Post-It note. I was exploring details and how it can fill a scene with visual interest, down to the tiny details.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / 3D Sculpting / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Digital Painting / Pixel Art / Lighting / Rendering / Matte Painting / Compositing / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

Pixel art practice. Love jungles in pixel art. Really fun to create.

Skills Used

Digital Painting / Pixel Art / Lighting / Rendering / Matte Painting / Compositing / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

Another Matte painting I wanted to experiment vegetation and overgrowth on. Decided to paint over the photo and age the building to show neglect. Enjoyed working on this piece. Vegetation is always fun to paint.

Skills Used

Digital Painting / Matte Painting / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

Matte painting, I wanted to experiment vegetation and overgrowth on. Decided to paint over the photo and age the building to show neglect. Enjoyed working on this piece. Vegetation is always fun to paint.

Skills Used

Digital Painting / Matte Painting / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

Vegetation creation. I wanted to create a scene with multiples of the same flora and see if I can maintain a natural spread. The choice of the light source ended up being a sunset which was a nice selection for its overall visual presentation.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

Subway environment with dystopian/deserted themes. I tried to focus on color themes and detail within the environment. I really like how the texturing turned out on some of the objects. Overall, I really like the feeling and the visual presentation of this scene.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

An abandoned city matte painting I created a while back. Turned the style into pixels and I really enjoyed the visual aesthetic it brought. I wanted to capture a feel of mystery within the discovery of this setting.

Skills Used

Digital Painting / Pixel Art / Lighting / Rendering / Matte Painting / Compositing / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

Exploring natural light and how it can leak color into a scene. Decided to go with a kitchen interior which worked well as a setting. For the lighting choice, I went with a winter color which brought in some nice blues.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Interior Design / 3D Sculpting / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation / Photo Compositing

More pixel art practice. I love rainy scenes and to make this a quick piece I chose something modular/repeating like building cells/windows. I love the feel and how the art and colors turned out!

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Digital Painting / Pixel Art / Lighting / Rendering / Matte Painting / Compositing / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Digital Painting / Pixel Art / Lighting / Rendering / Matte Painting / Compositing / Concept Art / Photo Compositing

An environment that I wanted to practice with standard modeling practices and night lighting. I have appreciation for the challenges the scene setting presented and I feel it is a successful piece.

Skills Used

3D Modeling / Lighting / Rendering / UV Mapping / Texture & Normal Mapping / Material Creation

Catering logo done from a freelance request. The idea was to incorporate stove burners into the design of the logo. After design communication was finalized with he client, he was extremely happy with the presentation and final result.

Skills Used

Logo Design / Compositing

Photo retouching practice. I was trying to capture a more realistic look rather than the typical airbrush effect that is easy to achieve.

Skills Used

Photo Compositing & Editing