All the projects I do that include VFX work
The plan During the post of the fiction and documentary films I decided to work on another personal project. For the past couple of personal projects I worked on a commuter. For this one, I wanted to make something with my hands. On the academy we have a dedicated greenscreen studio.…
The project As a part of my collage we had to make a short video in teams. Personally, as you might know, I have quite some experience in working with the Unreal Engine. In short, we had the task to create a little story with the theme; another world. The video…
The documentary For a schoolproject I worked as a VFX supervisor on the documentary "De Wolken Zijn Roze", which translates to The Clouds Are Pink. The film is about people who have to deal with depression. Not their own depression, but that of people they love. The film contains 6…
The concept During my study, I have a few weeks time to work on personal projects. Since I want to learn more about Unreal and it's environment tools, I decided to make a landscape from scratch. First, I decided upon a mood. Personally I like magical and mysterious landscapes. Landscapes that…
About the film "A fishermans friend" is a virtual production project from the Netherlands film academy. The story is about a fisherman in a post apocalypses world who has to choose between surviving of having a better life. https://smeele.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Website.mp4 Real-time changes In a film set, time is everything. Especially on…
Creature Creation The "creature creation" project is a usual part of the school program. In the second year we have to design, sculpt and pose a mythical, non-existing creature. My concept for this project was a cute cat-typed creature. My creature had to look helpless and innocent. And for the…
"the boy" project In 2018 I decided that I wanted to learn 3d art. I was 14 at the time. The most approachable way to do so was learning Blender in that time. Although, approachable might be an overstatement. I started out using Blender version 1.8. Tat version was... let's…