TECHNICAL ART / VFX – DEMO REEL BREAKDOWN

Star Craft: Legacy of the Void

• Lightning
• Explosions
• Sparks
• Shockwaves
• Smoke

Tools: 3DS Max, After Effects, Photoshop

World Of Warcraft: Rejection of the Gift

• Holy Sparkles
• Eye Beams
• Ground Smoke/Dust
• Explosion / Debris

Tools: After Effects (Particular, Saber), Maya

Ironman VR (Playstation VR)

• Hero, Enemy and Environmental VFX
• VFX and Character Shaders
• Scripting
• Tool Development
• Troubleshooting

Tools: Unity, Amplify, Houdini, Maya, After Effects, Photoshop

Crowfall

• VFX
  • Environmental / Atmospheric
  • Character Powers
  • NPC Powers
• Scripting
• Shader development
• Troubleshooting

Tools: Unity, Amplify Shader Editor, Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, C#

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor

• Khadgar
• Thrall
• Garrosh
• Blackhand
• and many more

Tools: Maya

Modular AutoRigger for Maya

• In Demo:
  • Easily set limb behaviors
    • Relative FK
    • Reverse Relative FK
    • Branch FK
    • Spline IK
  • Change appears of controllers
    • Color + transparency
    • Shape used
  • Create Poses
    • Pose a set of controls
    • Select limbs to save the pose for
    • Name it
    • A slider now appears to easily set the amount the pose influence
  • Not Seen
    • Limb creation = select a chain or branch of joints
    • Control positioning + pivot positioning
    • Renaming
    • Much, much more:
      • See my twitter for more updates

Tools: Maya, Python, Pymel

App Launcher (Not Seen)

• Launches application or opens document at a single click
• Customizeable
• Docks to system tray
• Stylized with CSS
• Designed for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Works with Python 2.0+ and 3.0+
• Works with either PySide, PySide2, PyQt4 or PyQt5

Tools: Sublime Text

Source code on Github

Tool Development (Not Seen)

• Task Tracking front end UI to be Artist/Producer friendly for Shotgun
  • Python, PySide / PyQt, Sublime Text
• After Effect file propagation and footage replacement tool for Lighters/Compositors/FX Arists
  • Python, PySide / PyQt, Javascript, After Effects, Sublime Text
• Stratego board game using Entity Component System (poorly programmed)
  • C#, WPF, ECS, Visual Studio
  • Source Code on Github

Maya to 3Delight (Renderman)

• Modeled and animated 3D scene in Maya
• Created Python script to export .OBJ sequence of scene
• Another Python script to convert .OBJ to .RIB files
• .RIB files passed into 3Delight via script to output .JPG

Tools: Maya, Python, 3Delight

Modular AutoRigger for Maya

• Individual limb creation
• Limbs can attach to one another however user desires
• Supports multiple instances of same limbs
• Easy Mirroring capabilities

Tools: Maya, Python

Custom Cloth + Particle Simulation

• Sphere vertices have spring calculations to maintain distance between each other, resulting in shape being roughly maintained
• User may click and drag spheres around to generate particles
• Speed slider controls time factor of calculations
• Particles were pulled using ‘attractor‘ and ‘repulsor‘ to maintain certain distance from center of tornado

Tools: Processing

Unity Shader Maker

• Through PyQt and OpenGL, the user can create shaders for Unity in the style of Unreal Developmen Kit (UDK)
• To allow artist to create custom shaders without knowing any coding.
  • (This was made in 2013, before the Unity Store had much to offer)

Tools: Python, PyQt, Unity, GLSL, OpenGL