Cinematic CGI Album Visuals & 3D Character Workflow Created in Blender

We created a 30-second fully CGI visualizer for Himmat Sandhu’s album Under Dawg with a strong focus on realism, cinematic worldbuilding, and high-production value visuals.
The creative direction was built around a futuristic spaceship environment, capturing a sense of scale and emotion as the artist listens to his own album while looking out at Earth.The visual consists of 8 unique CGI scenes, each crafted to feel “big,” premium, and atmospheric — reflecting the album’s identity in a way that feels both futuristic and grounded.Our aim was not only to design a sci-fi world but to make it feel believable, with detailed character work, realistic materials, lifelike lighting, and polished cinematic camera movement.

- Defined the visual tone, realism level, lighting, and cinematography.
- Planned the spaceship environment, outfit style, and overall futuristic aesthetic.

- Performed a 3D scan of Artists’s face and turban.
- Cleaned, refined, and detailed the scan mesh.
- Added beard, mustache, and built the full character body for animation.

- Designed outfit in Marvelous Designer.
- Ran cloth simulations for natural movement across multiple character animations.

- Designed and modeled the entire spaceship interior in Blender.
- Added props, materials, atmospheric depth, and realistic lighting setups

- Animated the CGI double across 8 unique scenes.
- Designed camera motions to achieve high-production, cinematic frames

- Lit and rendered all scenes with focus on realism and high-quality materials.
- Exported shots in raw format for maximum post-production flexibility.

- Color graded final visuals in DaVinci Resolve.
- Mastered and exported loopable visuals for each song in the album

Color Grading added majorly to cinematic feel.