This was one of my favorite original illustrations to make. I spent over a month developing a unique concept, researching, prototyping designs, getting feedback and polishing. You can check out the entire process if you’d like.
A global robotics CG competition prompted me to pour as much effort as I could into it. This carried me to second place in the competition and a feature on Polycount, Blenderatists, and a CG news website.
My latest work has been the Senior Technical Artist for Realize.design. This iOS interior design app enables users to find what fits in their room using photogrammetry, AI, and user-first UI. I was responsible for the pre-production mockups of the app, the creation of the asset pipeline, and the development of some cutting-edge features around cloud-based 3D model loading and material switching. Lately, I've been responsible for gathering product data and keeping it up to date for the checkout system. To date, I have implemented over four thousand high-quality 3D models, optimized for mobile.
Realize works similar to the shopping and building modes of The Sims but instead, we use real products from popular retailers such as Crate&Barrel, Target, Wayfair, and IKEA. These are all purchasable in a one-checkout system including sizable discounts for users.
These are development shots of Brukel, a game I worked as a Lead 3D Artist. I constructed the pipeline for character art, level meshes, and smaller props in Unreal Engine 4, but also oversaw quality assurance checks. These are some assets that I created on my own. In addition I helped other artists with their assets, touched up art and shared techniques.
The Kawasaki Ninja 250R was and still is a motorcycle I’d love to take for a spin. I was so fascinated by it that I took a couple months to study its forms and components in excruciating detail and transfer that into an intricately rendered 3D model with accurate materials.
Something inspired by a childhood dream of mine and this amazing concept by Gui Guimaraes. I had some time on my hands to create something a little over the top for a 3D class final.
It’s basically a personification of the Play Station 4 operating system.
Working at LifeFormations I was given the responsibility of collaborating with Dollywood’s creative director to generate a dozen concepts and the final version of their 55ft Wildwood Tree. It is the centerpiece of Wildwood Grove, Dollywood’s newest expansion. After concepting I populated all 600 programmable LED butterflies and 1200 leaves in various configurations, making wiring diagrams along the way. Once the design was finalized I assisted in splitting the tree into chunks for milling, casting, shipping and assembly.
Photographs provided by Jon Roost.
Orcon was one of my semester-long independent game development projects. The player is a pigeon-pilot based loosely on the actual research of BF Skinner during WWII, who successfully trained pigeons to pilot ordinance with a 100% hit rate. The graphics are stylized to reflect the modernist aircraft design sentiment of the 60’s (for example MiG-21 Russian fighter jets). The gameplay is very fast paced and difficult, dodging oncoming fire enroute to a high value air-borne target. Download it on gamejolt.
A pair of illustrations done for Cambridge University Press commissioned by Douglas E. Stevens PhD. They portray the book’s contents and themes in the form of Adam Smith on the top fold and a modernized steam engine on the bottom.
This work is a tribute to one of my favorite series, Metroid which features the bounty hunter Samus Aran. Most of my effort so far has been dedicated to creating her character, the under-suit and a companion alien Metroid model. I plan on adding to this project a complete suit, rigging and some studio-style illustrations in the future.
I was contracted to create these optimized assets by VECTRE LLC. They were used by General Electric at an Expo where customers could plan additive printing facilities in Virtual Reality thanks to the app developed by VECTRE.
