All Work

Pandora Forever

Two CGI rooms for Sherman Poon's music video, which played on the big screens at Times Square, Causeway Bay, in Hong Kong.

Client
Sherman Poon
Disciplines
CGI, 3D animation
Year
2022
Pandora Forever, Sherman Poon, 2022

The Problem

Sherman Poon is a singer in Hong Kong. For the music video of Pandora Forever (永遠潘朵拉), released on the label All About Music, the art director Aurora Wong had sketched two rooms that couldn't be built for real.

What I Did

I worked as a 3D animator with Shiueyes in Hong Kong. Together we turned Aurora's sketches into two CGI rooms, with crystal forms, drifting particles and architecture that doesn't quite obey the rules, and matched them to the live footage of Sherman.

The Work

From Sketch to Set

The rooms started as drawings. I blocked them out in Blender, modelled the crystals and shells, then lit and textured them until they matched the sketches.

Coloured sketch of the pink room: two open shells in front of a round window, with red spider lilies
Pandora Forever, Sherman Poon, 2022The Sketch for The Pink Room
The pink room in Blender before texturing, with spider lilies in the middle of the floor
Pandora Forever, Sherman Poon, 2022Blocking Out The Pink Room
A blue crystal model on a grey grid
Pandora Forever, Sherman Poon, 2022A Crystal for The Rooms
Grey shell shapes either side of a face, before texturing
Pandora Forever, Sherman Poon, 2022Shell Test
Test render of the pink room with two dark shells and spider lilies
Pandora Forever, Sherman Poon, 2022Pink Room Test Render

Outcomes

The video played on the big screens at Times Square, Causeway Bay, in Hong Kong.

Sherman Poon seen through an open shell in the finished pink room
The Pink Room, in The Final Cut
Sherman Poon looking through a round window in the red room, with drifting lights
The Red Room, in The Final Cut

Played on The Big Screens at Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Sherman Poon waving in the street beneath the big screen at Times Square, Causeway Bay, as the video plays
Sherman Under The Big Screen, Times Square
Sherman Poon standing in Times Square, Causeway Bay, with the video on the screen behind her
On The Big Screen in Causeway Bay
Sherman Poon smiling in front of the big screen at Times Square as the pink room plays
The Pink Room at Times Square

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