My 3D work

As as Lead 3d artist my skills are focused on Stylized Characters.

With my extensive experience, I am capable of creating a diverse range of real-time asset types and styles for various 3D use cases, including shader creation and implementation. My complementary background as a Senior Technical Artist allows me to effectively contribute to your project's needs.

Below I have chosen key examples of 3d assets that I have created from conception to implementation or rendering to make it clear what I am capable of.

Skills

Primary

• 3D Assets for games

  • Mobile optimized (low-poly) assets

  • High fidelity AA, AAA

• Stylized texturing and PBR texturing (inc. very clean baking)

• Zbrush Sculpting

• Hard surface modelling

• Retopology

Complimentary skills

• Rigging & skinning (Mobile spec only)

• Implementation into Unity and Unreal

• Shaders creation

• Character concepting

• Prop creations

• Basic animation

Stylized Character bust (Mobile spec)

A mobile character specification for gameplay should be designed to perform effectively in both interactive environments and cinematic moments. This character must maintain visual quality in gameplay while also holding up in hero shots and close-ups. Key elements include:

1. Facial Topology: The character's facial topology should be optimized for lip-syncing and expressive facial animation, allowing for smooth and realistic movement of facial muscles.

2. Gameplay Performance: The character's design must be efficient for mobile hardware, ensuring smooth animation and interaction without sacrificing quality.

3. Hero Shots & Close-Ups: For cinematic moments, the character should have high-quality textures and shaders, allowing it to look detailed and realistic in close-up views, especially for emotional or narrative-driven scenes.

This balance of functionality and aesthetic quality ensures the character delivers a dynamic experience in both real-time gameplay and narrative moments.

Character sculpting

This is a fan art Sculpt of mine created in Zbrush for HL2 20th anniversary. I challenged myself to create this without using base meshes and build up the anatomy from scratch. It’s based on the iconic dystopian meto cop with a pin up twist.

RTS Character

Character created lookdev and rapid prototyping of a mobile game with a classic Dark Fantasy setting.

The asset quality is tailored for an RTS game where the final in-game models are viewed from a distance, typically from a top-down perspective. As a result, finer details and precision are less important than the overall silhouette and proportions. The focus is on readability of including clearoity of the character archetype from a far while also having a destint ocerally feel.

The character was a stylized PBR character with a vertical gradient technique from Dota 2 for readability from players perspective and draw attention to torso of the character.

I created the shaders in blender as a quick way to look dev the final result and build a shafer the I know will translate across to Unity’s URP including a toon outline.

For mobile Spec characters I am very experienced in taking a concept through to basic rigging and implementation into Unity or Unreal ready for animation.

Production pipeline

• Zbrush for Sculpt

• Retopo in Blender

• Baked in marmoset toolbag 5

• Textures in Substance Painted

• Renders in Blender

• Implemented into unity

Realistic CGI spec vehicle

Photo realistic cinematic quality 3d hardsface vehicle

Low poly PBR T34 Tank

Simplified lowpoly RTS unit

• Highpoly

• Lowpoly

• Unwrapping

• Baking

• Texturing

• Rigging

Stylized Female character

Lighting study, sculpted in Zbrush using poly paint and rendered in blender (wip)

Stylized animation and rendering

Cinematic rendering in a NPR (non photorealistic style)

Realistic Character with surreal animation (Nudity warning)

Blender rendering project in cycles renderer and advance material fx with geometry nodes

liking how the first video turned out (zbrush render) I decided to remake it in blender. Improving the quality and explore the X-ray concept further. Still a wip (2024)

This is a project to take one of my models and turn it into a physical sculpture cast in epoxy resin. For this process I picked up fusion 360 and 3D resin printing in my spare time.

Stylized 3D animation (Nudity Warning)

NPR stylistic rendering

Hard Surface Vehicle Modelling

Hard surface/ Box modelling vehicle with slight simplified style

Animal busts sculpted in Zbrush

More 3D creations

A selection of additional models to reinforce my skills

Self Publishing

I enjoy the ambitious challenge of self-publishing my own games. Below is one I created with a coding colleague and launched in 2019.

Although it didn't gain much traction, I'm proud of the achievement. It provided me with valuable insights into game development, project management, and running my own small game studio with just two people, complementing my experience in studio employment.