Project

Mola: Fish of the Sun

Company

Mola

Category

Personal

Year

2022

Mola: Fish of the Sun is a journey into a dream of big fish. Stay tuned to unveil more details.

Mola: Fish of the Sun is a personal game project I began in 2022 a stylized Unity title and a deliberate departure from my professional work up to that point.

As the sole creator, I owned every aspect of production:
concept, art direction, asset creation, procedural environment in Houdini, animation, VFX, materials, shaders, and the full spectrum of technical art, through to optimization and performance tuning. Of everything involved, I found the most satisfaction in crafting the narrative and driving the art direction.

The project generated a substantial body of work, a selection of which you'll find below. If anything catches your eye and you'd like to dig into the details, feel free to reach out.

Deep Dive Cut Scene

Purposefully minimal shaders were a cornerstone of the visual style, keeping the aesthetic clean and the pipeline efficient.

VFX

I relied heavily on VFX Graph for visual effects, well-suited to the stylized, particle-driven aesthetic of the project.

Procedural animation done in Houdini.

One of several cutscenes I designed end-to-end: camera work, VFX, timing, and scene composition all handled in-engine.

Built a procedural grass generator in Houdini to accelerate iteration and make prototyping more explorative.

A Unity/Houdini Negine environment layout tool I built to rapidly test and iterate on scene composition.