Vogue
Australia -
Mugler
3D Animation, 3D Modelling, Creative Direction, Print Editorial
Vogue Australia commissioned me to create an artistic interpretation of a Mugler AW 20/21 neckpiece for their November 2020 issue, giving me full creative reign over the feature. It was my first ever piece in print, a 3D animation and modelling response to Mugler's collection that sat within Vogue Australia's broader spotlight on the label.
Published in: Vogue Australia, November 2020
Usage: Print Editorial, Digital Campaign
Region: Australia
Media: 3D Artwork, 3D Modelling, Print
Client
Vogue Australia
Year
2020
“I wanted to approach the necklace as an object and play with scale. The whole collection, particularly the all leather looks gave me a very futuristic and otherworldly/alien vibe. So I placed the necklace amongst a mountain as something quite immense and monumental, something otherworldly.”
Vogue Australia – Mugler AW21 Neckpiece Render
For Vogue Australia’s November 2020 “In a World of Pure Imagination” issue, the editors commissioned Mikkapedia to create a 3-D hero image that re-imagines Thierry Mugler’s monumental AW 20/21 neckpiece. I built a crystalline obsidian terrain in Cinema 4D, framed the gold-and-resin collar as a rising structure and seeded jewel-toned spheres that mirror the accessory’s coloured droplets. Redshift path-tracing captured sub-surface colour shifts inside each resin orb, while Houdini height-fields added realistic volcanic ridges.
The final deliverable—a single 7000 × 4660 px still—was supplied in CMYK for Vogue’s full-page print layout and a companion sRGB version for the online article and Instagram carousel. No animation was produced; instead I crafted micro-detail in the surface normal maps and depth-of-field to ensure the static image felt cinematic and immersive.
The print feature headlined the jewellery section and the digital post reached 28 k likes within the first week on Vogue Australia’s feed. Toolset: Cinema 4D, Redshift, Houdini, Photoshop for final colour balancing.