Vogue
Australia -
Mugler
3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Creative Direction, Social Campaign
Vogue Australia reached out to me to provide an artistic interpretation of a Mugler AW 20/21 neckpiece for their November issue, 2020. I was given full creative reign for this art feature, my first ever in print! The piece celebrates Vogue Australia's spotlight on Mugler's latest collection.
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.