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Unannounced Project - Xbox 360, PS3 - Midway Games 2008
Blacksite: Area 51 - Xbox360, PS3 - Midway Games 2007
On this project, I was brought in to work with physics
assets, material tech, particles and kismet scripting. I did several
weapons and weapon effects. After the team had canned the fullscreen tonemapping
and auto-irising post effects, I spent a week making the settings look
good, and convinced them to re-integrate it into the engine. I helped
out with many material shaders, animations, models, etc. When we couldn't
get self shadowing on the blackhawk in the railshooter section, I wrote
a UV panning fake shadowmapping material that read the camera vector left
right, up and down, and used those vectors to drive a shadow map texture
multiplied over the diffuse. It even fooled me after I forgot I did it
and saw it weeks later.
Section 8
FPS (Next Gen Multiplatform)
Section 8 was a great project
to work on at Timegate. I had always wanted to work on a next-gen FPS.
When Timegate got the license for the Unreal 3 engine, we started pouring
assets into the game in record time. I was maingly responsible for
mechanical design, modeling, rigging, unwrapping and texturing vehicles,
machinery, weapons, and environment assets. I enjoyed working in
UE3Kismet, UE3Cascade and material editor to get assets, materials and
optimized shaders working in game. I also prepared animatics of
game concepts and produced print pieces for promotional packages.
Axis &
Allies
RTS (PC) – Atari 2004
I really enjoyed working on Axis & Allies.
I have loved WWII since I was a kid watching Black Sheep
Squadron
on TV with my dad, and listening to my grandfather's old war stories.
Throughout the years as a game artist, one of my dream projects was a WWII game.
When Timegate approached me to work on A&A back in
Dec of 02, I was thrilled.
I was mainly responsible for the user interface, environments, terrain and
destructible walls and bushes. Although my
favorite part by far was modeling and texturing the airplanes. I
also modeled and textured several tanks and a few buildings.
Kohan II
Kings of War RTS
(PC) – Globalstar 2004
When I got to Timegate, Axis & Allies hadn't started up yet, so I worked
on Kohan II for a few months. I was tasked with making terrain, environments, and such. Did the
waves and water systems, etc. When A&A ramped up, I was moved to that project.
Hero X RPG
(PC) – Infogrames 2002
HeroX was the second game I was lead artist on with Digital Tome/Amazing
Games. HeroX was a comic book game slated in the Golden age of comic
books amidst gangsters and monsters and bikers, with humor and light
heartedness at its core.
Although the artwork ended up being better because the art team had really
come to work well together, the project was doomed from the start because of
the 6 month schedule and restrictive stripped down Siege of Avalon engine.
It was published by Infogrames in 2002.
Siege of
Avalon RPG
(PC) – Globalstar 1999
Siege of Avalon was my first game project. I was hired by Digital
Tome pretty much right out of college as lead artist. We published
6 chapters of Siege online in 1999-2000, and then an anthology box set
through Globalstar publishing. One of the main aspects of Siege that
I am so proud of is the automation of all the processes it took to generate
the mass quantities of character and wall piece artwork.
Because of
the CharacterLab layer system we had the capability of producing thousands
of unique characters with a base set of layered clothing, armor, weapons,
facial features, etc.
I also had tileable wall pieces from thin walls to thick cave walls
rendered out of 3DStudio Maxscript dumping into a Photoshop action to
process into useable game art. This allowed us to make many
variations in short amounts of time.
Personal Games
Here are links to a few games I have done personally with
Director Shockwave.
Ballistica
CaveEscape
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