| Industry Projects Unannounced Title - Created all particle and material effects. - Integrated intro cinematic anims with Unreal Engine 4's Sequencer. Link to promotional video Tech Art / Generalist on "Drawn to Death" (PS4) - Worked with Unity and most all of its functions. Profiling performance and debugging rendering on PS4. - Worked with programmers to create tools for quickly integrating character costumes. - Coded custom Unity shaders with geometry manipulation, stylistic expression of lightmaps, decals, grid UV animation, etc. - Optimized rendering performance of characters and levels. - Worked with artists to discover optimal asset creation workflow. - Created animation rigs for the "Hand" character and a few of the weapons. - Designed the level (Mt. Killmore). - Created almost all particle effects. - Created a workflow for warping wide angle live-action camera footage to suit the texture mapping of spherical geometry to make a video environment. - Created many level-based gameplay "gags", and almost all of the tutorial level interactivity via a Unity plugin called Play Maker. - The below video shows the live-action footage as it appears in game, followed by the tutorial level, and then a match on the level that I designed, Mt. Killmore. UI Artist / Programmer on "Sorcery" (PS3) - Created inventory UI and main menu with supplied graphics in Adobe Flash (now Adobe Animate). - Displayed dynamically structured images of items in a grid layout. - Handled controller input. - Worked with lead programmer to create functions in ActionScript that communicated with UnrealEngine 3 via ScaleForm.   Particle Effects on "PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale" (PS3) - Worked with level designers and referenced original games to re-create effects in the correct style. - Adapted to unique particle effect creation workflow in the Bluepoint Engine. - Created particle effects for the levels shown below.
3D Artist / Programmer on "PlayStation Home" (PS3) - Integrated furniture items and character clothing items. - Created thumbnail images, collision, and entered supplied localized text. - Modified outsource art to ensure items fell within memory and polygon budgets. - Programmed complex behaviors into some items with Lua Script, including networking and player camera control. - Created particle effects with code driven parameters. - Created diverse UV scrolling effects using UV layouts on geometry and / or texture grid animation. - Created furniture items from scratch, some pictured below.   - Created model, texture, effects, and scripting for the dance floor item in the video below. - Created lava flow and UV flipbook animation effects for the PlayStation Home character costume in this video. Personal Projects Unreal Engine 4 - Ramp Maker - Tool for connecting walls to floors with a curved ramp. Procedural mesh generated with collision, manipulated with spline controls and an array of "ramp points". Unreal Engine 4 - Particle Effects Unreal Engine 4 - Custom Vehicle Suspension - My own take on vehicle suspension instead of using Unreal's built-in vehicle. Unreal Engine 4 - Project Spline on to Terrain as Procedural Mesh Road - Procedural mesh road creates below path of a spline. The mesh has an elevation parameter to lift the geometry and avoid clipping through the terrain.   Unreal Engine 4 - Triplanar Grid Material - Used dot product operations to create a triplanar mask for a grid generated from world coordinates.   Unreal Engine 4 - Recover Decal Capability After Disabling Pre-Pass - Teams working with Unreal Engine 4 may sacrifice decal functionality in order to disable the pre-pass and increase performance. This is a way to restore decals without having to re-enable the pre-pass. Static mesh is a cube with inward normals, material has depth test disabled. This will work with instanced static meshes with some edits.   Unity Mobile Game - Created in Unity using C# programming and the Android SDK. Paintings, Acrylic on Canvas      Engagement / Wedding Rings  |
About Technical Artist / Generalist in the San Diego area. Brian Gans on MobyGames.com Programs - 3DS Max - Adobe After Effects - Adobe Animate (Flash) - CryEngine 2 - Maya - Perforce - Photoshop - Substance Painter - Tortoise SVN - Unity - Unreal Engine 4 Education - B.S. with Honors in Game Art & Design from The Art Institute of California, San Diego, 2007 Credits - Drawn to Death (PS4) Technical Artist - inFAMOUS: Second Son (PS3) Face Scan Artist - Knack (PS3) Tech Art Support - ModNation Racers (PS3) Cinematic Support - PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (PS3) VFX Artist - PlayStation Home (PS3) 3D Artist / Programming - Sorcery (PS3) UI Artist / Programming - The Order: 1886 (PS4) Mocap Support - Twisted Metal (PS3) Cinematic Support - Merchants of Brooklyn / Drug Wars (PC) Art Director Employment - Sony Interactive Entertainment 3-2018 ~ Present 3D Artist - The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency 7-2013 ~ 2-2018 Technical Artist - Sony Computer Entertainment America 8-2009 ~ 7-2013 3D Artist / Tech Artist - Paleo Entertainment 10-2007 ~ 7-2009 Art Director - PromoVentures, Inc. 4-2006 ~ 10-2007 Photoshop / Flash Artist |
