CAIN MORIARTY

3D ARTIST · VISUAL STORYTELLER

Cinematic minimalism with provable technique.

SELECTED WORK

Hand-carved lino print label designs for Balance Brewing — Headless Horseman, Old Crockern, and Mermaid — photographed across Greater Manchester locations

BALANCE BREWING & BLENDING

Brand Identity · Lino Print · Campaign Design · Zine

A self-initiated brief: build a craft brewery brand from the ground up — identity, packaging, photography, and campaign collateral.

Three label designs — Headless Horseman, Old Crockern, Mermaid — each rooted in British folklore and regional storytelling, hand-carved from single lino blocks. Supported by environmental photography across Greater Manchester, Instagram content, stories, and a 10-page A5 printed zine. Research to final deliverable, every stage done by hand.

01 RESEARCH 02 CARVING 03 PHOTOGRAPHY 04 CAMPAIGN

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BYŌDŌ-IN PHOENIX HALL

Environment Art · Blender · Unreal Engine 5 · VR 360°

University project exploring how historical spaces can function as interactive museum exhibits.

A faithful reconstruction of the Byōdō-in Phoenix Hall as a static VR environment, part of the 'Echoes of the Past' project. Modelled in Blender from Machiya architectural reference and Heian-period design language, textured in Substance Painter, and rendered as 8K 360° panoramas in Unreal Engine 5. Accuracy to the historical record was non-negotiable.

01 REFERENCE 02 BLOCKOUT 03 TEXTURING 04 VR RENDER

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Costa Coffee rebrand — three branded cups on coffee beans, photorealistic 3D render

PARTNERSHIP BRIEF — COSTA COFFEE REBRAND

Brand Identity · 3D Visualisation · Packaging Design · Research

A rebrand of Costa Coffee that strips the chain back to its artisanal roots.

Research-driven identity redesign exploring how a high-street brand can reconnect with craft coffee positioning through revised mark, packaging, and product visualisation.

01 RESEARCH 02 IDENTITY 03 3D MOCKUPS 04 CAMPAIGN

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Cinematic night render of a rain-slicked city street with volumetric lighting and wet-surface reflections — 48-hour production challenge

48 HOUR — MIDNIGHT RUN

3D Animation · Blender Cycles · DaVinci Resolve · Speed Challenge

A self-imposed 48-hour production challenge: build, light, animate, render, and grade a cinematic night drive sequence from scratch.

Kitbashed assets in Blender, Shakify addon for camera animation, and colour grading in DaVinci Resolve. The constraint was the brief — speed as a design parameter, not a compromise.

01 BLOCKOUT 02 LIGHTING 03 RENDER 04 COLOUR GRADE

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Gothic plate armour sallet and bevor front clay render — 15th-century hard-surface modelling study

MEDIEVAL 3D CASE STUDY — GOTHIC PLATE ARMOUR

WORK IN PROGRESS

Hard-Surface Modelling · Blender · Substance Painter · Historical Research

A full suit of 15th-century Gothic plate armour modelled in Blender from reference at the Royal Armouries, Leeds.

A modelling and material study designed to test hard-surface skills against historically accurate source material — every component researched, blocked out, and refined individually.

01 RESEARCH 02 MODELLING 03 MATERIALS 04 PRESENTATION

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N.O.R.A. portable AI assistant device built on Raspberry Pi Zero W — gothic minimalist interface displaying emergency database and real-time query response

N.O.R.A. — NEURAL OFFLINE RESPONSE ASSISTANT

Product Design · Raspberry Pi · AI Engineering · Vibe Coding

Self-initiated product: a portable AI assistant that works without internet — hardware, software, and interface design in one functional device.

A portable, battery-powered AI assistant built on Raspberry Pi Zero W, combining cloud AI with a comprehensive offline emergency database of 87 life-saving articles. Gothic minimalist interface, 30× query performance improvement, 7,000+ lines of code across Python and TypeScript.

01 HARDWARE 02 INTERFACE 03 DATABASE 04 TESTING

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EX LABORE VENUSTAS

From Work, Beauty

I'm a 3D artist working primarily in Blender, expanding into Unreal Engine 5. I specialise in atmospheric rendering, environment art, and cinematic storytelling — work that sits at the intersection of gothic precision and historical narrative. I also work with tactile processes: hand-carved lino printing, embroidery, and 3D printing. Craft isn't limited to a screen.

Every project begins with a question: would this hold up in 1425 and in 2025? That dual-era test shapes everything — respecting the discipline of what came before while pushing technical boundaries forward. Design as ritual, not production. Refinement over agreement. The work earns its place through labour, not decoration.

3D & ENVIRONMENT ART

Blender · ZBrush
Substance Painter
Unreal Engine 5
Unity (exploring)

MOTION & CINEMATICS

After Effects · DaVinci
UE5 Sequencer
Camera Animation
Compositing

BRAND & PRINT

Lino Print · Embroidery
Adobe Suite
Zine & Publication
3D Printing (Bambu A1)

Currently: Third-year Graphic Design student at the University of Salford, specialising in 3D. Available for studio placements, contract work, and collaborative projects.

GET IN TOUCH

hello@themoriartyexperience.com

Open to studio placements, commissions, and collaborations.