Alien Perspective is an immersive VR project directed by Jung-Ah Suh, with Christina Rambaldi providing creative input representing the Rambaldi family. While Jung-Ah made the final creative decisions, the project was built through an unusually close, fully remote collaboration: a three-person core team working across three time zones, developing the experience through countless Zoom sessions—often without ever being in the same room together.

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In 2025, Alien Perspective was selected for Venice Immersive (In Competition) at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. The project was also featured at the Rome Film Fest as a VR installation open to the public during the festival dates.

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Unreal Engine programming and real-time implementation were led by Gantt Reagan. I served as a creative/technical director focused on character development, visual look, and pipeline workflows—while also contributing ideas throughout the iterative process as the experience took shape. Both of us worked from a shared SVN repository, allowing us to contribute to the same Unreal codebase in parallel.

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Creature & character work

The original alien creature was sculpted by Alonzo Von Threet, who also produced early motion tests that helped establish the character’s movement language. Building on that foundation, I created multiple creature variations, filled in the details and produced the final character animations used in Alien Perspective.

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Some of my contributions

• Character animation: Created and refined animation in Blender, including motion exploration and custom animation passes for final delivery.

• Visual look development in Unreal: Improved lighting, mood, and overall artistic presentation in Unreal Engine.

• Materials & pipeline: Developed a workflow to transfer detailed, hand-painted alien skin textures/shaders from Blender into Unreal while preserving the intended look, using a USD-based interchange approach.

• AI-assisted 3D exploration: Used AI-assisted techniques to help translate Rambaldi sketches into 3D starting points for rapid iteration and prototyping.

• Audio & music: Edited and refined music and sound effects, and contributed audio mastering/polish for final presentation.