Earlier work Before product design

3D and game art

Before product design, I worked on characters, environments and animation for games. This selection includes modelling, texturing, lighting, rigging and rendering.

Most pieces were made in Maya and rendered in V-Ray. I used Photoshop and After Effects for additional work and built the character rigs myself.

United Legends

United Legends was a card game with heroes based on different countries. I joined as a 3D generalist and moved into UI in my final year. The game shipped with 12 arenas, each based on a different location.

Emiliano Zapata. Character rig and animation.

Michiel de Ruyter standing in a small boat behind a cannon, moonlit water and rocks around him — Michiel de Ruyter in a night scene.

A sample character after modelling and texturing but before colour, in a neutral pose with arms out — A sample character after modelling and texturing, before colour.

Game characters sitting in a row along a steel girder high above a city, in monochrome — Game characters arranged as a study of the 1932 steel-girder photograph.

The Black Forest board seen from above in untextured white geometry: pine forest, houses, Rapunzel's tower and a paved arena in the middle — The Black Forest arena, with Rapunzel's tower and Hansel and Gretel, shown without final materials.

Nine arena icons in a grid, each a small diorama on its own base: a pagoda, a beach, a cow skull, a waterfall hut, a Roman helmet, a palace, a jackal head, a clock tower with a crown, and a stepped temple — Nine of the game's 12 arena icons.

Ready Steady Games

I worked on art direction and UI across the studio's games as a partner in the team.

Summoners Royale gameplay. The game ran on PC and mobile.

A character system with 8,888 variants

The variants used a shared body with different heads, helmets, weapons, clothing, skin and backgrounds. I set up the batch render and checked the combinations before rendering the full set.

A character bust with two axes crossed behind the shoulders, bare head, red-lit background — Twin axes.

The same bust wearing a visored helm with glowing eye slits, a gold sickle behind the shoulder — Visored helm.

The same bust in a green helmet with red winged pauldrons rising behind the shoulders — Winged pauldrons.

Personal work

Personal studies in character design, animation, materials and lighting.

An avocado character, rigged and animated as a loop.

A stylised character in a gold embroidered waistcoat and turban, hands on hips, on a gold background — Character study.

A weathered boxy robot on tank treads, holding a lit blowtorch that throws sparks in the dark — WALL·E, a personal study based on the Pixar character.

A photorealistic rhinoceros standing in dry savannah grass with acacia trees behind — Rhino study.

An open-topped military jeep parked in tall grass at night, headlights on, under a full moon and low mist — A jeep scene used to explore lighting, fog and vegetation.

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