Faculty of Arts & Science

Digital Futures

Yannan Ma

Trapped in Space

Trapped in Space is a 3D animation of a looping sequence in the perspective of an astronaut who encounters danger in the hallway to the next room. It is meant to feel abstract and confuse the viewer. Did the series of events that unfold really happen, or was it a nightmare? For this project, I took the models I made for Gravity: Null and reimagined them in a different setting with proper lighting and layout of the various models. I included process work of me UV mapping the models, working with lighting in Maya, using the animation graph in Maya, and adding a blinking effect on Premiere Pro.I also included the final animation.

“Tools and Skills:- Maya for 3D modeling, shaders, UV mapping, animation, and rendering- Photoshop for creating texture maps- Premiere Pro for post-processing effects and audio integration”