Immersive Video – 2025

This animation was completed for a Motion Design project in which I had to create a video formatted to be shown in the Buffalo State planetarium. The video had to be completed using a fisheye lens setting in Blender and in 1:1 format. I decided to create a scene in which a curious great white shark is investigating the camera under the ocean surface while boats and other ocean life pass by above.

I completed all art, animation, editing, and sound mixing using Blender, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. All sound effects are from Pixabay.

I sculpted the shark model in Blender by continuously bisecting a plane and shaping it to fit the image of a reference drawing I had completed for a previous project. Later, I created simple boat and dolphin models via Blender and Illustrator.

Work in progress shot of shark model in Blender.
Work in progress shot of shark model in Blender.
Swimming animation completed using shape keys.