VFX Demo Reel - 2016

Описание: A selection of both my personal and professional real-time vfx work.

PERSONAL WORK

Created all meshes, animations, textures, and particle systems. This personal project was an experiment in creating stylized anime-esque effects in Unreal 4.

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Trying to achieve the expanding and contracting motion seen on the flare at the center of the effect with a flipbook texture wasn't giving me the results I was looking for. The shape is very large and hard edged so it needed to be higher resolution which limited the amount of frames that I could put in the flipbook. In turn, fewer frames meant the effect looked choppy.

To solve this problem, I created a material that would allow me to distort the flare texture with a displacement map and control the amount of distortion over particle life inside of Cascade with Dynamic Parameters.


GUARDIANS OF ATLAS

Sole VFX artist. Responsible for all ambient and ability effects. Proprietary engine. Guardians of Atlas is a real-time strategy game (or "Action RTS") developed for PC and Mac. It was released in "Open Alpha" on August 26, 2016.

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Titan Slam Ability, Stunned Status Effect, and Attack Effects. Like many other VFX in the game, the color of the Titan's ability VFX is based on team-color. Allied units are blue while enemy units are red.

0:34
Ambient Building Effects and Unit Warp-In

0:37 - 1:00
Hero Abilities

1:01 - 1:08
Ambient Unit Effects

1:09
Sludge Debuff, Attack Effects, and Death Effects

1:18
Command Splash and Map Alert Ping. These are some of the in-world "UI" elements that I created for Guardians of Atlas. The arrows on the ground indicate that the currently selected units have been given a movement command while the exclamation points are used to call the attention of your teammates.

1:27 - 1:43
Unit Abilities, Attack Effects, and Death Effects

1:44 - 1:55
Building Destruction Effects. The Breakdown shot at 1:52 shows the initial Maya fluids simulation used to create the explosion texture along with the final flipbook.


STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC

VFX work that I did for Knights of the Fallen Empire during my time at BioWare Austin.

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Force lightning made for cinematics.

2:01
Created docking clamp tractor beams and wind effects.

2:04
Modeled, unwrapped, and animated holoscreen elements. The main designer asked for the display to show how the droid was managing a wide variety of systems on the station.

2:09
Created smoke, electricity, and other dark side force power effects for cinematics. Camerawork by Bret Hoffman.


Music - "Flight of the Flamingo" by Flamingosis