Nicholas Schjaerff

3D Art Portfolio

Welcome to my portfolio

This is a portfolio showing the work that I have done during a Bachelor in 3D Art from the Truemax Academy in Copenhagen, finishing in 2023. It is spilt up in semesters but any work done outside of school can be find under the work menu point. It is a Portfolio of 3D work that is constantly develping as I continue with my studies and other projects on the side.

1st Semester

Movie mash-up

This was an exercise in paying attention to style and imitating it. We had three feature films to choose from. We were to use a shot from one film..

Dogbo

This was an exercise in modelling within a set poly-count and then rigging texturing and posing the character.

Long John Chillin'

This was our first exercise in hard surface modelling. It was also the first and only time we used 3Ds-Max.

2nd Semester

Gone in 45 seconds

This was the first group project. We built a small film, from the bottom up. All modelling, rigging, camera work and post was created by us.

Missing a Nugget

This was a collaboration project with the Danish company Marionette, with was working on some new motion and facial capture software for the body and face.

3rd Semester

Chimp Bust

The goal of this project was to understand the anatomy and the skull, and use that to build of the bust of a chimp...

Dragon Fun

I have modelled this dragon in Z-brush, optimized the topology, and painted it using Substance painter. It was an exercise in modelling from reference. See more...

Pirate Island

This model was provided for us. The exercise was in substance painter, on the best presentation of texture painting. See more...

Old Me

This was an exercise in modelling and hair/fur generation. This was a project in where we were introduced to X-gen in Maya for hair generation...

Show Reel

A show-reel showcasing the work of the semester at Truemax Academy Copenhagen. The video is cut in DaVinci Resolve.

Happy Faun

This was an exercise in organic modelling. The position of the model was set, but it was up to us to model it into a creature of our own choice...

4th Semester

Box and Stone surprise

This was an exercise in animation. We had a month long work shop with a well known Danish 2D animator. We were guided to these two results.

Spider Man Home Made

This 4th semester project was an exercise in motion capture. It was a 5 person project set up in Unreal Engine 4

Hostis Veros Vigilat

This is the final project for the 4th semester at Truemax. It might not look like much, but my goal was to do every part of the production myself from start to finish, within the three week period.

DADIU - 5th Semester

DADIU - Hypha Game

This was a semester of making PC games. Three games and Hypha was the last one. Thanks to the team of 14 talented students from around Denmark.