This is Aida v2.0, a character I made for a Malaysian government agency in charge of the Multimedia Super-Corridor in Cyberjaya (just outside Kuala Lumpur).
She was a virtual host in an animation designed to introduce and showcase a special installation there.
She comes flying in on her jet contraption from far off in the background, comes to a stop and hovers in front of the audience and introduces herself and the system she's running on. I was co-founder of a studio called Optidigit back then (closed long since). We had some employees, but this animation was all done just by me, from concept to manual lipsync keyframing, to final render.
I built, rigged, animated and rendered her in Maya. Back then there was no such thing as Normals, all the detail is modeled in with Subd surface. Also no Mental Ray or Arnold renderers, we had to use the Maya renderer. :)
I textured her in Photoshop.
How far we have come in just 15 years! :)
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My name is Steven Stahlberg, I joined Steemit in December 2017. I was born in Australia, grew up in Sweden, but now live with my wife in Kuala Lumpur. I've lived here about nine years so far, and love it!
I work as a lead artist in a game company here. My two sons live in Sweden. I'm working on a graphic novel in my spare time. Thanks for watching!
Links to some of my other art:
