Academy of Champions ~ Coming Soon!

I am excited to share all the work I did on Academy of Champions since I joined Ubisoft Vancouver (formerly Action Pants Inc.) last year. The game will be on shelves this September, so please come back for detailed screenshots and renders of my work after the ship date. Check out the official website for the game trailer and press releases.

Facebreaker ~ Modeling, Texturing and Lighting

Facebreaker shipped on Sept. 5th, 2008. It is a new franchise for EA which I was lucky enough to contribute to during pre-production and early production before I left for maternity leave. I modeled and textured props and backgrounds for 2 environments and I also lit an early environment. Check out the official website.

I modeled, textured, and arranged the props for the boxing gym environment.

Here is an example of one of the props, textured and displaying the Lightmap UVs. The chair UVs were organized into clean shells so they could easily be copied and arranged into Lightmap UVs. We relied on occlusion maps for adding edge details and contact shadows, and we created spec maps and normal maps on particular items that needed the extra surface details.

With Lighting...

I modeled and textured props for the custom car garage. I also worked on the initial lighting pass. The environments for Facebreaker were all lit entirely with lightmaps.

World Cup 2006 ~ Lighting

I worked on lighting 3 stadiums while I helped out on World Cup '06. Here are examples of different times of day lighting. Each environment was lit with a combination of lightmaps and vertex lighting.

And here is a screenshot of the stadium with post effects:

Fifa '06 - Modeling, Texturing and Lighting

During this project, I led a group of 4 artists to update Fifa stadium modeling and re-light a handful of stadiums. Here is an example of lighting and effects I worked on.Sideline reflections...
Lighting was all vertex colours except for the pitch which was lightmapped

March Madness 2008

Here is an example of the stadium lighting I worked on for March Madness 2008
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Fifa Street 2 ~ 3D Lighting

Fifa Street 2 was released in February 2006. I had the opportunity to light 3 outdoor environments for the game.

Marseille environment - Test lighting based on art direction
Final in-game environment Lighting...

Mexico ~ In game lighting



New York ~ In game art...

A study to find which texture would create the feel of an overcast sky...

NBA Live 2005 ~3D Modeling

During this project, I led a team of 3 environment artists, 2 lighters and managed outsourced assets. It was an aggressive development cycle where we created all 29 stadiums from scratch for a new render engine while switching software packages from Maya to XSI.

From reference to completion...
Screen grabs from XSI.

In-game Screenshot:

In-game screenshot:

Student Film - "Lesson in G Minor"

In 2001, I completed an animated short called "Lesson in G Minor". I modeled, textured, lit and animated the 4 minute film in 3D Studio Max. The film gained some international success when it was screened in film festivals around the world, such as Berlin, Brussels, Palm Springs and Ottawa. I also received the New Mic award at Emily Carr for artistic innovation.