Earlier work Before product design

Selected visual craft

Before product design, I worked in 3D and games: modelling, texturing, lighting, rigging and rendering. That work still shapes how I think about hierarchy, motion and visual systems.

Most of the work here was made in Maya and rendered in V-Ray. Some pieces were finished in Photoshop or animated in After Effects. I built the character rigs myself.

United Legends

A card-battler where every country's legendary hero is also a unit on the board. I came in as the 3D generalist and moved to UI artist in the last year. Twelve arenas shipped, each one a city you can name from its icon alone.

Emiliano Zapata. Hand-built rig and shot animation.

Michiel de Ruyter standing in a small boat behind a cannon, moonlit water and rocks around him — Michiel de Ruyter, 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 — The cast, restaged as the 1932 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 board. Rapunzel's tower, Hansel and Gretel.

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 — Arena icons, 9 of the 12 in the game.

Ready Steady Games

Art direction and UI across the studio's titles, as a partner in the studio.

Summoners Royale in play. It ran on PC and on mobile.

One character system, 8,888 variants

One base body, with the head, helmet, weapon, garment, skin and background swapped underneath. It rendered in one batch, so a mistake in setup appeared 8,888 times. The checking happened before the render, not after.

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

Studies, mostly. Made to try something rather than to ship it.

An avocado with legs. 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 after the Pixar character.

A photorealistic rhinoceros standing in dry savannah grass with acacia trees behind — Rhino. Realistic instead of stylised.

An open-topped military jeep parked in tall grass at night, headlights on, under a full moon and low mist — A lighting exercise. Most of the work is the fog and the grass, not the jeep.

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