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Katherine Heng - DemoReel (2025)
Shimano-MTB DEORE M6100
Over 8 months in a team of 4, we created 4 projects, including the DEORE M6100.
Using Autodesk Maya for asset preparation, rigging and animation, Substance Painter for texturing, Unreal Engine for lighting and rendering, GitHub for working in Unreal Engine simultaneously and Adobe Premiere Pro for compositing. Contributed photorealistic texturing, lighting assistance, scripting to automate the rigging process and asset preparation.
Using Autodesk Maya for asset preparation, rigging and animation, Substance Painter for texturing, Unreal Engine for lighting and rendering, GitHub for working in Unreal Engine simultaneously and Adobe Premiere Pro for compositing. Contributed photorealistic texturing, lighting assistance, scripting to automate the rigging process and asset preparation.
Crimson Heist
"The power she stole was forged in forbidden rites. Starved in wires. Now loose in flesh."
Crimson Heist is an Arcane-inspired film created by a team of seven DigiPen BFA Digital Art & Animation students. Contributed rigging assistance and animation.
Lowell Chong - Director, Tech Artist, Editor
Jonathan Lee Jun Wee - Producer, Tech Artist, Animator, Audio
Neo Wen En - Environment Concept & Texture Artist
Hsih Nee Ling - Character Concept & Texture Artist, Animator
Fan Jia - Rigger, Animator
Hui Mei Koh - Storyboard Artist, Animator, 2D VFX Artist
Katherine Heng - Rigging Assist & Animator
Crimson Heist is an Arcane-inspired film created by a team of seven DigiPen BFA Digital Art & Animation students. Contributed rigging assistance and animation.
Lowell Chong - Director, Tech Artist, Editor
Jonathan Lee Jun Wee - Producer, Tech Artist, Animator, Audio
Neo Wen En - Environment Concept & Texture Artist
Hsih Nee Ling - Character Concept & Texture Artist, Animator
Fan Jia - Rigger, Animator
Hui Mei Koh - Storyboard Artist, Animator, 2D VFX Artist
Katherine Heng - Rigging Assist & Animator
Vintage Book Reseller
Workstation of a vintage book reseller! Adding the book materials, golden hour lighting, and seeing the project come together made my heart happy. Inspiration and book textures taken from lescargot-papier.com.
Modelled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter and rendered in Marmoset 3.
Modelled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter and rendered in Marmoset 3.
Kitchen Interior
3D modelling an interior; feel like I learnt how to model much more quickly and efficiently, and it was fun matching up the shot to the IKEA catalogue!
Grandma's Jewellery Box
Old treasures and antiques. Details of the gold engraving were procedurally created, along with the rest of the materials within Substance Designer. I tried to accurately capture texture details in the jade marbling, jade subsurface, gold engravings, velvet fibers, wood grain and brass lock.
Modelled in Maya, textured in Substance Designer and rendered in Unreal Engine.
Modelled in Maya, textured in Substance Designer and rendered in Unreal Engine.
Fight Sequence
Working pose-to-pose, reference from YouTube @SAMURAIveCHANNEL. Munkei and Azri rigs.
Animated in Maya.
Animated in Maya.
Animation
Stomp and throw animation using a reference video of myself, and a walk cycle. Animated in Maya.
Honey Flip Fluids
Honey simulation in Houdini using FLIP fluids. Custom material for honey.
Golden Circle
From tutorial by Motion Graphic Designer and Art Director, Hai Le, using Houdini VEX expressions.
Building Destruction
Modelling, Rigid Body Dynamics and Pyro FX done in Houdini.
Psycho-Pass Dominator
Dominator done in ZBrush. First ZBrush project.
Hologram
Building wireframe effect in Houdini, card Motion Graphics in After Effects and Compositing in Nuke.
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