Game Art

My tree! Its holding my crafting hammer, and my Logo, and my special Hero Shader! This tree was pretty much a character in itself. Its all one mesh! The orange shards and logo has blurry transparency effects, and there is cubic environment mapping on the gold of the hammer!

The Logo itself highlights the blurry refraction and self refraction of my own Hero Shader, a special shader I made that has all of my favorite effects in one. Textures and Normals hand painted in Mudbox and Photoshop, modeled in Maya

A short animation I made for fun! Made in the style of Overwatch. Animated, modeled and rendered in Maya and Mudbox, with the electricity animations done in Adobe Animate.

The lootbox was made in a wooden/metal style! Done in Maya and Mudbox.

Here you can see tiles of hand painted dirt, dying grass, rock, gravel and a little living grass. Each texture is seamless but can be repetitive by themselves, so you have to create an interesting mix of all the tiles. Each tile has an assigned normal map loaded into the terrain model, and my terrain shader links each diffuse texture to its corresponding normal texture. The alpha map of each texture also controls how shiny the texture is, and where it receives specular highlight. All in DX9!

A terrain shader I created to accommodate up to 8 textures. It uses 2 RGB lookup images for where to place each texture, and each tile has a normal map with an Alpha channel for specularity. Textures are placed in order on top of each other by the lookup images. In the world editor, each layer can have its own repetition/scale. Textures and Normals hand painted in Mudbox and Photoshop

The bridge connects the dry side to the living side of the Valley. The trees on the dry side are more warm fall tones. In the back you can see some environment fog, as well as dithering on the terrain itself, a brute force way to make an object in the solid render pass stipple away when its too far from the camera.

I wanted a bridge to go over a little bit of the water so the player can reach the other side of the valley without wading through the stream. The bridge has moss which doesn’t have a lot of specularity, it was fun to place around. It has cubic environment mapping on the gold metal, rim shading on the black metal, and subtle subsurface on the wood and ropes (which are animated!). The whole bridge is a single mesh, with a tightly packed UV. Textures and Normals hand painted in Mudbox and Photoshop, modeled in Maya

I created an ocean/lake shader. It starts out with a simple diffuse color and then a single normal map that’s doubled up, so its two normal maps that’s scrolling at different speeds! Using a secondary transparency camera, the shader then multiplies the transparency camera bitmap onto the water surface, and then distorts it based on the RGB values of the normal map. A reflection camera is placed at the lake surface which then is added to the shader as a planar reflection for whats above the water. The water shader can receive shadows, as well as seeing shadows under the surface. Using techniques from soft particle rendering and the depth camera, the lake has soft edges when it meets the ground!

This water shader taps into the transparency view (a second render camera that has a short draw distance and less expensive shaders), to give the effect of translucency. Using the normal map, it can distort whats seen in the transparent view. There is a second reflection camera that adds that planar reflection as well. A foam/wave lookup map also determines how strong the waves are, and which areas have foam. The same water shader is used on the lake as well as the waterfall! Texures and normals were hand painted in Mudbox and Photoshop

Some pixel art from each of the different endings for each character, it was a blast to keep the amount of colors low and to render it all in chunky crunchy pixel art. Done in Cosmigo Promotion. Steam Page! Timelapse

In game pixel art and their corresponding reference/concept art for each of the 4 warriors! Illustrator and Photoshop.

I wanted to go for a commodore 64 and ZX spectrum art style, with some luxuries of a modern engine. Steam Page!

In a small group with two of my friends, we created Junk Rocket in 24 hours at a game jam. The majority of the pixel art and animation here was done by me, with extra items done by a good friend

Undead empire had a huge cast of playable characters and bosses! These are the in game portraits used in the GUI. Illustrator, Photoshop

Box art of the heroes surrounded by the undead army. Illustrator, Photoshop

Just a few tiles for Undead Empire. Hand painted in Photoshop

In game weapon icons. Illustrator and Photoshop.