Retro Futurism | La Primavera '77

Cinematic modular environment built as a production-ready environment pipeline for an alternate-history 1970s American Southwest, spanning hard-surface modeling, procedural asset creation, materials, optimization, and real-time presentation.

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OVERVIEW

• Built 30+ production assets across architecture, vehicles, signage, infrastructure, props, and set dressing as a reusable modular environment kit.
• Authored tileable materials, trim sheets, decals, UV layouts, and PBR texture sets designed for consistent reuse across the environment.
• Optimized geometry and materials to a 500K polygon budget while preserving cinematic quality, visual consistency, and real-time performance.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Blender

Substance 3D Designer

Substance 3D Painter

Marmoset Toolbag

Photoshop

Lakeside Cabin

Large-scale Unreal Engine 5 environment built from real-world GIS data, combining procedural terrain, vegetation, modular architecture, and real-time world building across a 2 km² landscape.

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OVERVIEW

• Transformed GIS elevation data into production-ready terrain and established the geographic foundation for the environment.
• Created 10+ vegetation assets, modular architecture, bridges, water, and environmental props, using procedural systems to distribute and manage assets across the landscape.
• Implemented Nanite, Lumen, instancing, scalable scene management, and real-time lighting to maintain a 60 FPS performance target.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Unreal Engine 5

Nanite

Lumen

PCG

Blender

Geometry Nodes

Quixel Megascans

Substance Painter

Substance Designer

ArcGIS

French-Inspired Plaza

Historically researched French architectural environment focused on accurate construction, modular asset development, sculpted detail, and high-fidelity material presentation.

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OVERVIEW

• Reconstructed architectural forms from historical references with accurate scale, proportions, construction logic, and period-specific detailing.
• Built modular buildings, facades, streets, architectural components, and props designed for reuse across larger environment assemblies.
• Produced optimized topology, UVs, PBR materials, asset variants, lighting, and historically grounded set dressing for a cohesive real-time presentation.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Maya

ZBrush

Substance 3D Designer

Substance 3D Painter

Photoshop

Marmoset Toolbag

WW1 Trench

Historically reconstructed WW1 battlefield environment built around cinematic storytelling, combining large-scale terrain, modular fortifications, destruction, foliage, materials, and atmospheric effects.

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OVERVIEW

• Built a complete French-sector battlefield from archival references, including trenches, dugouts, fortifications, infrastructure, vehicles, aircraft, vegetation, and environmental props.
• Developed layered PBR and procedural material systems for mud, wood, metal, fabric, earth, weathering, and battlefield degradation.
• Directed composition, lighting, atmosphere, foliage, destruction, and set dressing around a narrative combat moment while maintaining real-time constraints.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Maya

Blender

Substance 3D Designer

Substance 3D Painter

Unreal Engine 5

ZBrush

Photoshop

Military Hard Surface

Period-authentic military asset collection focused on mechanically accurate hard-surface modeling, historical research, precision topology, and production integration.

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OVERVIEW

• Created detailed vehicles, weapons, optics, equipment, mechanical components, and environmental props from historical references.
• Modeled complex mechanical assemblies using accurate proportions, component relationships, construction logic, and subdivision, boolean, polygonal, and sculpting workflows.
• Established consistent UV, texel density, topology, material, naming, optimization, and real-time integration standards across the collection.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Maya

3ds Max

Blender

ZBrush

Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Designer

Marmoset Toolbag

Photoshop

NeoClassical Facade Generator

Procedural architectural system that converts high-level design parameters into complete, customizable buildings for scalable environment production.

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OVERVIEW

• Engineered procedural generation for footprints, floors, windows, roofs, ornamentation, facade composition, adaptive geometry, and instancing.
• Automated LOD generation, geometry optimization, and hidden-geometry removal to keep generated assets performant as complexity increases.
• Built USD-compatible export for moving generated assets into downstream film, game, and visualization pipelines.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Houdini

Python

Procedural Modeling

PCG

Geometry Processing

Instancing

LOD Systems

Optimization

USD

Pipeline Development

Procedural Subway Platform Generator

Artist-driven procedural environment system built in Blender Geometry Nodes, using 25+ modular assets to generate distinct New York and Toronto subway environments with configurable layouts and automated asset placement.

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OVERVIEW

• Developed a procedural system for assembling platforms, tracks, stairs, architecture, signage, infrastructure, and props, with controls for platform length, track count, stair placement, and asset distribution.
• Implemented collision-aware placement that evaluates nearby geometry and automatically skips occupied positions to find the next valid placement point.
• Designed an interchangeable asset framework allowing artists to swap the 25+ base models for custom assets while preserving the underlying procedural layout and placement logic.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Houdini

Python

Substance 3D Painter

Procedural Environments

Environment Art

Instancing

Asset Optimization

Memory Optimization

USD

Pipeline Development

Cross-DCC Asset Pipeline

End-to-end asset pipeline connecting Maya, Substance 3D, Unreal Engine, and Unity, automating asset preparation, LOD generation, material integration, project organization, and real-time presentation from source geometry to final showcase.

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OVERVIEW

• Engineered Python workflows to automate Maya asset processing, LOD generation, and high-resolution baking variants for production.
• Automated Substance 3D → Unreal integration for USD assets, textures, LODs, materials, and project organization.
• Built reusable Unreal and Unity presentation systems for automated lighting, turntables, asset validation, and showcase rendering.
• Processed complete PBR texture sets in ~86 seconds, generating 8 maps across automated 2K → 4K → 1K scaling.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Unreal Engine 5

Blueprints

Python

Technical Art Tools

Pipeline Automation

Asset Validation

LOD

Mesh Optimization

Texture Optimization

Material Systems

Paint & Rust System

Procedural material system for generating controllable surface aging across Unreal Engine and Unity, from clean painted surfaces to advanced corrosion and degradation.

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OVERVIEW

• Built parameter-driven Substance materials controlling paint condition, wear, exposure, corrosion, and surface variation.
• Developed physically motivated material logic based on surface behavior and environmental exposure rather than manually authored texture variants.
• Created reusable material instances and artist controls for generating consistent variations without modifying underlying shader graphs.

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

Substance 3D Designer

Unreal Engine 5

Unity

Procedural Materials

PBR

Shader Development

Material Systems

Material Instancing

HLSL / Shader Fundamentals