Hello! I’m Aleyda, a graduate from the School of Visual Arts, where I studied Computer Animation and VFX. I’ve most recently worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios as a Character TD Apprentice, so Zootopia 2 shots soon to come!

You can also find my Look Dev reel down below.

2024 Character TD/CFX Reel

Password: Reel2024

    • Dulce

      • Dulce is a short animated film for my senior thesis that I’ve directed and created alongside Lok Cheang, and Kevin Class. I was responsible for the story, character designs/modeling, texturing, groom and cloth/groom simulation.

      • The hair guides were transferred into Houdini to create the simulation and then transferred into Maya to render with XGen, using Arnold as the renderer

    • Aang Butterfly Kick

      • This is a personal project in which I wanted to focus on cloth simulation in Houdini. I am responsible for the Cloth Creation in Marvelous Designer and the Cloth Simulation in Houdini

    • A Jeju Story- Link to more about the project here!

      • A story directed by Nara Youn and written by Sohyun Moon. I was responsible for assisting in the Hair Pipeline as well as simulating hair for two scenes in the upcoming trailer!

    • Ceiba Y Sus Raices Tainas

      • Ceiba Y Sus Raices Tainas is a short film by Brithney Rivera, Jacqueline Ferreira and Megan Schmitz. I was responsible for the headdress simulation for the shot.

2024 Generalist/Texturing Reel

Password: Reel2024

    • Phonograph- Personal Project

      • I saw this phonograph at a local museum and wanted to recreate it in 3D! Focusing mainly on the wear and tear of the materials. Textured in Substance Painter, modeled and rendered in Maya, Arnold.

    • Dulce

      • Dulce is a short animated film for my senior thesis that I’ve directed and created alongside Lok Cheang, and Kevin Class. I was responsible for the story, character designs/modeling, texturing, groom and cloth/groom simulation.

      • The characters and props were textured in Substance Painter, and groomed using XGen in Maya. The texture variation was created with a render pass of the textures as well as a facing ratio in Arnold and put together with compositing.

    • No Photography

      • No Photography is a short film by Grace Redclift, Vincent Wang, Kaifu Tan, and Lance Haug. I was responsible for texturing the hero props in Substance Painter.

    • Boat Project

      • This project was in collaboration with Victoria Venturini. The concept was created by Elli Lebedeva. I was responsible for texturing and shading!