Ghost of Tsushima | Lighting | Character Techart
List of some of my responsibilities on the Ghost of Tsushima lighting team.
Maintaining all tetmeshes in the game environment using Maya, including the following duties:
⦁ Hand placing SH probes in locations, buildings, towns, farms, props, etc… This is the most time consuming and tedious task even when using the AUTOGEN tools.
⦁ Working with environments to finish out the interior specific probes work which is all custom
⦁ Using the SH Lighting utilities to update location tetmeshes in Maya
⦁ Place or create assorted light meshes and probe sets per building or location, then rigging and placing in the world
⦁ Addressing all bugs/tickets related to outdated or problematic SH tetmeshes Monitoring farm activity and running tetmesh and sky-vis bakes on the farm including:
⦁ Review locations to assess tetmesh problem areas in the game world
⦁ Creating subset lists of various locations to run targeted bakes on farm
⦁ Work with engineers to troubleshoot farm/bake problems as they arise
⦁ Run single bakes of tetmesh locations locally Additional lighting tasks:
⦁ Learn to maintain and add distance/navigation lighting and FX through use of the IGE
⦁ Work with the lighting team to fix localized lighting as it relates to tetmeshes and mission needs
⦁ Learn tools and lighting pipeline in Maya, the IGE and for environments i.e. scene proxy tools, assorted proprietary tools, how the TOD/Weather system works. That makes troubleshooting more efficient and accurate if you know how it all works.
⦁ Location lighting for interiors and Exteriors.
⦁ Mission lighting based on game design.
⦁ Class B cinematic lighting.
Infamous Second Son | Lighting
(Note: All assets and set dressing were done by others)
⦁ Working with environments to finish out the interior specific probes work which is all custom
⦁ Using the SH Lighting utilities to update location tetmeshes in Maya
⦁ Place or create assorted light meshes and probe sets per building or location, then rigging and placing in the world
⦁ Addressing all bugs/tickets related to outdated or problematic SH tetmeshes
Monitoring farm activity and running tetmesh and sky-vis bakes on the farm including:
⦁ Review locations to assess tetmesh problem areas in the game world
⦁ Creating subset lists of various locations to run targeted bakes on farm
⦁ Work with engineers to troubleshoot farm/bake problems as they arise
⦁ Run single bakes of tetmesh locations locally
Forza Motorsport | Horizon | Lighting,Texturing, and Modeling
During my time at Turn10 as a Car Artist my responsibilities focused on accuracy of the cars provided by outsourcing and bringing them up to the highest quality. I researched and provided concise documentation to be used by outsourcing team (these ranged from our tech specifications, highlighting specific car design changes, and changes that needed to be handled quickly ). Upon receiving the cars from outsourcing, much reconstruction had to be done. The reconstructions consisted of modeling missing pieces, unwrapping and re-baking lightmaps, and adjusting LOD densities. These cars where held to the highest standards and had to maintain perfect accuracy to manufacturer's precision which I handled as well as any other issues that surfaced. Fixing bugs on Vehicles Before being put into the game as DLC. For example on the Zonda R, I fix a number of material and texture bugs, I redid the ambient occlusion on necessary parts and when the manufacture ( Pagani ) noted that we did not have the correct wing on the car I was able to model and replace the existing one. All lighting for the vehicles were done at turn 10 by the car artist, using reference prom photos or video to recreate the most accurate headlights and taillights possible.
Really an amazing team at Aquent, Turn10, And Playground Games.
Personal Work | Lighting,Texturing, and Modeling
Holo station for building EJ2V engines !
Detonator Tower | The Bureau | xcom declassified
based off of a concept by : Sam Brown ( one of my favorite concept artists )
Everything done in one evening. Practice for getting faster at modeling.
Longbow Tower
3d concept art I did for the game " Necropolis "
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