All images are modeled and textured by an overseas art team. I art direct all models going through the pipeline, set up PBR workflow and cross-train artists to utilize the pipeline.
Photogrammetry scan - resin fountain
Photogrammetry scan - resin fountain
Photogrammetry scan - full sized riding lawn mower
Model built by outsource team from of scan data
Medium resolution drill model and mesh
Medium resolution pressure washer model
Medium resolution saw model.
Medium resolution saw model
Medium resolution table saw model
Medium resolution chain saw model
Medium resolution saw model
Medium resolution riding lawn mower
Screenshots from Forza Motorsport 5, Forza Motorsport 6 & Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Turn 2 - With the exception of the cars, I created most of the background environment in this scene.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I worked with a team of artists refining the wet masks used across all geometry for the rainy effect on track. This included UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
•I have been the team lead or handled the upgrade on 6 other tracks for Forza 6. Over the course of Forza 1, 2, 5 and 6, I’ve been responsible for finalizing over 30 tracks in production.
•I lead the teams on 10 different reference gathering trips to the following locations: Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas, California, Washington D.C., Australia, Germany, Belgium & Greece.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I worked with a team of artists refining the wet masks used across all geometry for the rainy effect on track. This included UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I worked with a team of artists refining the wet masks used across all geometry for the rainy effect on track. This included UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I worked with a team of artists refining the wet masks used across all geometry for the rainy effect on track. This included UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Texas including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads and skids. Assisted LIDAR scanning team with optimal location of scanning nodes. Post reference trip, I did cataloging, color tone mapping and tagging of photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I created UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I worked with a team of artists refining the wet masks used across all geometry for the rainy effect on track. This included UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Texas including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads and skids. Assisted LIDAR scanning team with optimal location of scanning nodes. Post reference trip, I did cataloging, color tone mapping and tagging of photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track. I created UV layouts on multiple channels as well as advanced projection-mapping techniques that allowed us to optimize texture usage.
•Procedural systems – I built out the meshes and did vertex painting as well as set up grass types for the track. This included XML editing of many files to get the system performant & functioning.
•Lighting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing special cases lighting bugs on our track. I burned Direct Maps, AO Maps and Indirect maps as necessary. I also helped a team generate interiors and emissive textured used for the night lighting of the track.
•Material/Shader – I was responsible for bringing all elements track-wide to the defined realistic standards. This was a Physical Based Rendering (PBR) workflow, so it included color correcting original source files, tone mapping, generating normal maps, gloss maps and many special use textures. We used a wide variety of custom built shaders that utilized vertex painting to do various blending methods and special case shaders such as deposit blending with vertex color.
•Game engine – using the proprietary “Fuel” system, I created the entire track and optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within 60 fps and per-frame millisecond budgets defined by the system architect. I helped prototype the tools and was the initial beta tester for the entire system. I worked heavily with tools engineers and technical artists to make it production ready and efficient for the entire team.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track.
•Lighting – my team was responsible for burning lightmaps in the scene - including Direct Maps, AO Maps and radiosity maps as necessary. We also fixed all lighting related bugs on the track.
•Material/Shader – I worked directly with the technical art team to create optimized shaders and materials used on the track.
•Game engine – using the proprietary system, my team optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within the millisecond budgets defined by the system architect.
Note: not responsible for cars.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured half of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I created all terrain and road modeling and was responsible for lofting the final road surface. I modeled approximately 50% of all objects on track including buildings, barriers, signage, vegetation and race day objects. This included Level of Detail model chains.
•Texturing – I built most of the tiling terrain textures, road textures, cement slabs, skids and road “groove” textures for the track. I created a method used by all tracks to generate the buildup of rubber and grime on tracks. I textured approximately half of all architectural elements on this track.
•Lighting – my team was responsible for burning lightmaps in the scene - including Direct Maps, AO Maps and radiosity maps as necessary. We also fixed all lighting related bugs on the track.
•Material/Shader – I worked directly with the technical art team to create optimized shaders and materials used on the track.
•Game engine – using the proprietary system, my team optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within the millisecond budgets defined by the system architect.
Note: not responsible for cars.
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•Photo reference trip - Captured a quarter of all photo reference on location in Florida including texture reference for buildings, vegetation, roads, skids, 360 panoramic sky-domes and GPS data acquisition of prominent features. This included cataloging and tagging photos.
•Modeling – I lead a team of artists responsible for optimizing static geometry, and deformable geometry across the entire track.
•Texturing – I lead a team of artists responsible for optimizing textures to fall within given budgets.
•Lighting – my team was responsible for burning lightmaps in the scene - including Direct Maps, AO Maps and indirect maps as necessary. We also fixed all lighting related bugs on the track.
•Material/Shader – I worked directly with the technical art team to create optimized shaders and materials used on the track.
•Game engine – using the proprietary system, my team optimized CPU, GPU, Vertex count, Instance count to fall within the millisecond budgets defined by the system architect.
I managed the environment team on the unreleased version of Flight Sim 11. Responsible for 510 million square km of the earth surface. This included a library of over 5000 textures which spanned 4 seasons. I also maintained a complex spreadsheet drove the rules system for procedurally applying textures to the terrain.
I managed the environment team on the unreleased version of Flight Sim 11. Responsible for 510 million square km of the earth surface. This included a library of over 5000 textures which spanned 4 seasons. I also maintained a complex spreadsheet drove the rules system for procedurally applying textures to the terrain.
Zbrush and Mudbox sculpts, and low resolution game models.
Facial study for wrinkles and aging of a model.
Low poly - game optimized creatures and rig setups. Monkey character has an IK & FK rig.
Wireframe overlay to show density and type of modeling done for Forza Motorsport 5.
Logo design, UI / UX design, wireframes..
Front and back box cover design for Holy Press game. Designs also included logos, all cards, hex tiles and markers for game.
Book cover design & graphics.
Various game & publication logos - all original designs.
Menu prototype running in Unity.
Menu prototype running in Unity.
Menu prototype for multiplayer, chat, and player selections.
Sample of UI design prototype pages for games, web and educational sites. All original designs.
UI skins for IOS mobile title. Designed so that a single texture swap would re-skin the entire UI in a different look & feel.
Microsoft research executive demo on UI design ideas. Full wall interactive "store front". Designed to highlight the interactive capabilities of a full wall sized display and new ways to visualize data organization, selection, viewing, and purchasing.
Dozens of educational tutorials generated for use in a teaching environment. Covered subjects from modeling, texturing, rigging, rendering, lighting and art fundamentals.
Various game storyboards for cut scenes, non-interactive scenes and menus within a game.
Truetype font display font designed to match Dungeon Siege logo style. All letters were hand generated and converted to a font file that could be installed in the Windows OS.
Design and construction plans for architectural display used at a Boy Scout Jamboree. Construction was done by boys in the troop.
Design wireframes and flow documentation from various game UI screens.
Digital paintings, photo manipulation, sketches.
Photographed at Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. Post process effects applied.
Hand-painted images using ipad & Procreate software.
Hand painted images using Procreate and Painter software.
This painting was created using a wacom tablet on a PC with a digital painting application (Painter).
Hand painted using ipad & Procreate software.
Image manipulation via filters.
Hand edited image manipulation using various software packages.
Image manipulation via filters using my own photography.
Image manipulation via filters using my own photography.
Image manipulation via filters using my own photography.
