Holly & Whiskers - UE5

Holly & Whiskers captures a quiet, warm snowy night - a small shopfront, soft lights, and a cat calmly staring back at you.

Kicking off the year by finally starting something I had been meaning to explore for a long time - building an Anime / Ghibli-inspired production pipeline in Unreal Engine 5. This project is an initial step toward developing a stylized workflow using custom shaders, custom code, lighting, and hand-painted textures, while carefully maintaining and respecting warm, cohesive colour tones.

Pipeline highlights:

Modeling & environment development in Houdini
Cat sculpted in ZBrush
Hand-painted textures using Substance Painter & Designer
Complete stylized pipeline built and finalized in Unreal Engine 5

More experiments and refinements ahead.