Blender 3D · RISD CGI 3D · 2026
1,000-Pound UAP Crash Lands on Roswell
A sci-fi 3D scene staging a heavy UAP crash-landing at Roswell — modern myth rendered with weight, scale, and impact.
Role
Modeling · Lighting · Animation
Year
2026
Software
Blender
Course
RISD · CGI 3D (FAV-5118)
Subject
UFO / UAP · Roswell
The Idea
Modern myth, made physical
A sci-fi 3D animation depicting a roughly 1,000-pound UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon) crash-landing at Roswell. The piece leans into the mythology of an unexplained craft coming down to Earth, rendered as a cinematic 3D scene with real weight and scale.
Roswell
Modern myth as worldbuilding material
Impact
Weight, scale, and physical presence in 3D
Using CGI to make speculative and unseen things feel real.
The Film
Watch the film
Course
FAV-5118 · Computer-Generated Imagery 3D
Made for RISD’s Computer-Generated Imagery 3D studio, taught in Blender. The course covers lighting, modeling, and animation grounded in core 3D principles; after lectures on navigating the interface, each student produces a short animation with focused, individual instructor time.
Reflection
Reflection
With this one I wanted to take my growing Blender skills and aim them at a piece of modern myth — the idea of a heavy UAP crashing down at Roswell. The sci-fi premise gave me a reason to push environment and worldbuilding alongside the modeling, lighting, and animation I’d been practicing. Staging a believable crash meant thinking about weight, scale, and impact, which stretched my sense of how to make a 3D object feel physically present. It’s part of the same thread as my creature work: using CGI to make speculative and unseen things feel real.