Author: Jiawen Yin

My Work Hair VFX Creation In this project, I created the flowing hair effect using Unreal Engine 5’s Niagara particle system. I began by modeling simple strand geometry in an external tool and importing it into UE as the emitter source. Within Niagara, I used mesh particles to represent the strands, applying gravity and wind…

Made by Jiawen Yin and Hao Tan Introduction My InspirationThe initial idea was, in fact, very simple. At the time, I noticed the growing pile of large cardboard boxes at home — since we often receive packages from China, they just kept accumulating. Instead of throwing them away, I thought it would be much more…

June 25 by Jiawen Yin Choosing a Critical Report Topic As a student of visual effects, I keep asking myself this question: besides mastering technical tools, shouldn’t we also build our own framework of aesthetic understanding? Wasteland Aesthetic, as a cross-media and cross-cultural visual style, appears widely in film, games, and illustration, but beyond that,…

“When life realizes the existence of the mysteries of the universe, it is just one step away from ultimately unraveling this mystery.” ——Cixin Liu Inspiration Last month I went to Edinburgh for two days with a friend after I had cooked, and when I got back I found this in the rice cooker. So this…

Environment Process map I made a new version and I added some new content, unfortunately it’s on the school computer, so I’m sorry I couldn’t show it today. nuke is brand new to me and is my first compositing software so I’m still taking my time to slowly work my way through it.

Some screen shorts on the class. texture practice 3DEqualizer learning Binding Bones and Motion Nuke roto Nuke practice Poster replace_nuke 3D Animation basics and material simulation

modelling practice process video