This project started with a series of illustrations in my sketchbook inspired by my two dogs. I eventually arrived at making the two characters (Ellie and Luci) Here's a video on that part of that process.
Recently, I wanted to get a pirate themed Animation since I had made a pirate themed illustration in that series. So, on a flight back from a family visit, I drew a concept for a stylized pirate ship.
I had also recently had a job interview with a studio that was AI forward but did not expect to replace artists, rather, they intended on empowering a team to create output faster. That being said, I wanted to get some experience with minimal AI Gen workflows. With this in mind, I used an image gen model to use my concept to create a rendered concept art to then use in an Image to 3D generation model.
This image was then used to produce a reference model using the Huyuan 3.0 model. The models that are produced were not up to standard for a production model, especially a hero asset like this boat, so I modeled a new boat using the AI gen as a reference. See the comparisons below.