Character models for 2026 short film “Red Horizon” | Modelled and Textured by Brian Mahler (Midomaru)

For this project I took the role of character modeller, although I was given lots of liberty in the design process as well. The two characters, Reeves (older man) and JP (younger man) are members of a space army so I wanted to focus on creating a uniform that was simple felt “space-y”, mostly taking inspiration from early 80’s “Gundam” pilot suits. Both characters were modelled with a hero prop in mind; a helmet for Reeves and a pair of goggles for JP which will be displayed in detail below from sketch to render!

This project demanded characters for Motion Capture using Rokoko Studio which created an interesting workflow between my modelling and the director, Skyler Andrews (www.sandr3d.squarespace.com/) in which through out the modelling iterations, we would test the models with mocap data and adjust when needed.