Archie : 2011 Comiccon Winner

This is a redesign from the classic Owlship, aka Archie, from the comic book seriese Watchman. I created this piece for Game Artisans: 2011 Comiccon Challenge, in which I had to re-invent a super hero’s vehicle. I chose to re-create Archie as a bi-plane instead of the origional design, I used mainly 3Ds Max for this piece and photoshop. Archie won first place in the vehicle category of this challenge.

Auxilrae : Ore Transport Vessel

This is a cooperative project I worked on with fellow artist and co-worker Terry Maranda. This was our second project together after working on the FLAK Cannon. We both wanted to create something much bigger and many more details. What started off as a prison ship, ended up becoming an hazardous ore transport vessel. Terry Maranda worked on all of the concept art and matt painting, while I did the modeling and composition for this piece. Auxilrae is featured in ImagineFX‘s March 2012 issue, which highlights the pipeline between Terry and I.

FLAK Cannon

I worked on the FLAK Cannon Concept with fellow artist and co-worker Terry Maranda. This was just sort of a fun side project to see how our pipeline would work, as Terry works on the 2D art and I do the 3D aspects. The FLAK Cannon ended up being the launching point for our next project, the Auxilrae Vessle, and other projects. Terry Maranda worked on all of the concept art and texturing while I did all modeling, animation, particle effects, and video editing.

Be sure to click the center of the image above to see the video.

Tree Hut

This is a Tree Hut concept that I worked on in college as part of my senior year demo reel. My main concern for this piece was that I wanted to really develop something modular, and re-creatable in different ways. I used Art Rage to develop my origional concept image, Maya for all the modeling, and Photoshop for texturing. For the Demo Reel, I used After Effects for all video editing.

Be sure to click on the image above to see my 2009 Demo Reel.

Spire: Space Satillite Concept

This was some freelance work I did cooperatively with fellow artist Terry Maranda, for Dreamstone studios. I did all the modeling and animation, while Terry worked on the textures and concept. This was one of many concepts developed for an unannounced space RTS.

Be sure to click on the image above to see the Satillite’s animation.

Low Poly Ship Concepts

These were a series of Low Poly ship concepts I worked on while I interned at Mistic Software. These were intended to be used in a DS game, although when the company was bought by Ludia the project was scrapped.

Empowering Play Promotional Art

These are a series of promotional images I created for the Emergent Media Center’s : Empowering Play project. I was largly involved in the preproduction of this project, and created these after visiting South Africa with the team.

Be sure to click the image above to see more information about the project.

America’s Army Map : Canyon

The America’s Army Project was a summer internship organized between the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College and the America’s Army development team. The goal was to successfully complete a multiplayer map using the America’s Army version of Unreal 2.5 and be officially released through the America’s Army deploy client. Release was 100% dependant on the quality of the map and there were no guarantees of release. Two teams of Champlain students were hired to create two maps.

My Role :

Although everyone on the team worked as Level Designers, my main role came from designing the Lighting and populating the environment. I also developed some of the first level concepts for Canyon, before we started building in Unreal.

I handled most items placed within the environment, both in interior environment and exterior. I had to give a lot of thought as to what pieces should go where, to make Canyon feel as lived in as possible. I also took a leading role in developing to overall look of Canyon and it’s artistic style.

Collossus

This was a piece I worked on in college as apart of one of my senior year projects.