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Swan Lake

Project Type: VFX, Compositing, Lighting

|   Date: January 2026 

Software: Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, Blender

A collaborative VFX-based composite image, imagining a ballerina dancer and an elegant black swan, meeting in a winter lake scene. I took a pre-modeled online asset of a swan and created my own custom wings on top of the swan's body, in ZBrush. I textured the swan in Adobe Substance Painter, and modeled the tiara and textured it in Adobe Substance Painter. I also matched camera angles and lighting, recreated the shoot setup, and accurately lit CG items in Blender.

Team Credit:
Photographers - Grace Monahan, MacKenna Rhoads, Sierra Allen | Compositor - Sierra Allen | CG Artist - Madeleine Ashe

Final Composite

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Ideation

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Tiara

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CrownCloseUp.jpg

Swan

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