We’ve been acquired by Google!
Exciting times. http://www.roadtovr.com/google-acquires-tilt-brush-developer-and-thrive-audio-to-add-to-vr-team/ https://developers.googleblog.com/2015/04/works-with-google-cardboard-creativity.html
Game Dev
Visual Effects Artist Roundtable Notes
Here are all of my notes from the Visual Effects Artist Roundtable sessions at GDC.
Kinect Party
One of my absolute favorite projects – Kinect Party! I had the enormous privilege of being Project Lead, as well…
“Dead Balls” is on the app store!
Dead Balls is the result of the 48 hour “molyjam”, in which Lee Petty, Patrick Conner, Bill Gahr, Alex Vaughan,…
Spaceship of the Imagination : Earth Day Remix
This is a music visualization I made for a song from our (currently unnamed) band. The track was from a…
Happy Action Theater GIFs
A couple animated gifs from the night we took our game Happy Action Theater across the street to Bar Basic….
Happy Action Theater Bar Basic Night
We took an xbox, kinect, and capture setup to the bar across the street from Double Fine. It was super…
Kinect + Spring Physics
This uses a fun GPU based spring effect I wrote for Double Fine Happy Action Theater. For each pixel, a…
Happy Action Theater
On this amazing project I did technical art, visual effects, shaders, design, prototyping and took over for Tim Schafer as…
Stacking
The trailer for the amazing game Stacking!! I did all the lighting, visual effects, and technical art for the game…
Time Lapse Climates in Brutal Legend
This is a video showcasing the climate system for Brutal Legend. I collaborated with the engineering department (primarily our lead…
Maya PDC (Particle Disk Cache) exporter
This script generates the Maya particle disk cache format. I’ve been wanting to be able to do this for quite…
Physics Driven Fur Shader in 3ds Max
HLSL implementation of hair/grass using the “concentric spheres” technique. This version expects a per vertex force component to be passed…
Grass Shader in 3ds Max
HLSL implementation of hair/grass using the “concentric spheres” technique. This version uses vertex data channels to control hair length, hair…
Relief Map Blending
Normal map and Relief Maps are blended in this shader. Depth, Diffuse, Specular and Normal maps are modulated based on…