ROLE:
Senior Lighting Artist
Apr 2022 – Sep 2022
DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER:
Liquid Swords Inc.
PLATFORMS:
PC
- • Defined the technical and creative lighting foundations during pre-production, solidifying the game vision for the studio’s first-ever title, and supporting a successful green-light demo, securing a AAA capital raise.
- • Established a ground-truth physically-based lighting (PBL) pipeline using lumen ray-tracing, collaborating with Epic Games' Tech Dev Relations team as one of their initial AAA development studio partners.
- • Developed a dynamic time-of-day sun and atmospheric system using Level Sequencer, a setup that Epic Games eventually used in Fortnite.
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ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER*
*Responsible for establishing physically based lighting (PBL), exposure, fog, and time-of-day pipelines in Unreal Engine 5 during pre-production. Most credit for in-game lighting goes to artists who leveraged the initial pipeline foundations.
REAL-TIME SCREENSHOTS*
Established initial lighting/mood during pre-production using physically based lighting (PBL) and a dynamic time-of-day pipeline.
*Most credit cannot be taken for the images below. Initial pre-production pipelines were leveraged by other talented artists to create this lighting.
