Kai Johnson
Animation


3D Artist/Character Animator

Hello and Welcome to my site!
I'm a Animation generalist, specializing in all kinds of fields including but not limited to Character Animation and Unreal Engine. My passion is to tell stories through visuals, whether it's character animation or environmental storytelling.
After moving to Melbourne, Australia in 2020; I began my journey to develop a career in the creative industries. My goal is to work on film and television.Here is my showreel, featuring major projects that I have completed within the last year. For further information, feel free to contact me through my social media or my email.

Previous Work

Dr Lankanotvitch's lab: The Escape.

This piece was one of the more challenging and rewarding projects I have done so far. I was completely new to Unreal Engine when we were given this brief.I was Creative Director for this project. Our brief was that the team had to tell a story with just the environment, lighting and camera. I was also responsible for the Lighting and the camera work.

Camp Fright

This animated short was created to help communicate that the act of littering can severely impact the smallest of our native wildlife. I was the lead character designer, storyboard artist and inbetween animator for the two lead characters.

Motion Sickness

Motion Sickness is a part of a series dubbed Closer. Closer is about our personal experiences in everyday life and my piece was tackling that feeling of Motion Sickness while traveling on public transport.In order to create this piece I used three nparticle systems within Maya and swirled them around in a invisible sphere, then it was a matter of adding instancers to give the particles their shapes.