Filmmaker
Growing up in the Philippines, award-winning filmmaker Jae Solina says he turned to movies as a reminder that the world was much larger than himself and his homeland.
He started the popular YouTube channel JSFILMZ a decade ago as a way to share home videos he made for fun.
Since then, he’s expanded the channel to showcase his computer graphics-based movies, which have won the Best Animation and Best Super Short Film awards at the Las Vegas Independent Film Festival.
He also posts tutorials for virtual filmmaking with tools, including NVIDIA Omniverse — a physically accurate 3D design collaboration platform exclusively available for NVIDIA RTX GPUs and a key part of the NVIDIA Studio suite of creator tools.
Solina uses an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU and Omniverse apps like Audio2Face, Create, and Machinima to create his films virtually. He also uses Omniverse Connectors for 3D applications like Blender and Autodesk Maya, as well as Reallusion’s iClone and Character Creator, with which he edits motion-capture data.
Making tutorials is a way of paying it forward for Solina, as he is self-taught, gaining his computer graphics skills from other artists’ YouTube videos.
Solina now lives in Las Vegas with his wife and two kids, balancing filmmaking with part-time school and a full-time job.
“One of the reasons I am beginning to switch over to Omniverse is because it is a one stop shop for my virtual production filmmaking needs,” Solina said. “I can not only use the built in apps like Machinima, Audio2Face, and Farm but I am also able to easily connect to previous apps I am familiar with such as Autodesk Maya, Blender, and Unreal Engine.”
Learn more about Jae’s work.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Jsfilmz/videos
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