Lead on Project Elderwood, a production example that demonstrates how Houdini proceduralism can be woven more tightly into the unreal editor , taking advantage of scriptable tools for direct viewport interaction, leveraging pcg, geometry script and the houdini engine blueprint api. The primary goal is to show how Technical artists can create better integrated tools that can empower artists, enhancing and even creating entirely new *tactile* artistic workflows.

Technical Artist on Project Pegasus, an open world creation demo using Houdini and Unreal. My duties included creating the Landscape shader and landscape texturing and detailing workflows in Houdini. During the project I co-created the Flora tools, a set of prototype plant modelling tools that explores how delayed evaluation could be used to build better modelling systems in Houdini.

I designed and built an end-to-end recipe-based foliage pipeline for realtime simulation of massive environments using Unreal and Houdini. This included building a suite of plant modelling tools complete with lods, imposters, texturing packing and pivot hierarchies for shader-driven wind animations in Unreal, seasonal colouration, as well as processing raw photogrammetry scans and assembling scanned modular components to produce the final result. I scanned 9 tree species and subsequently used… Show more I designed and built an end-to-end recipe-based foliage pipeline for realtime simulation of massive environments using Unreal and Houdini. This included building a suite of plant modelling tools complete with lods, imposters, texturing packing and pivot hierarchies for shader-driven wind animations in Unreal, seasonal colouration, as well as processing raw photogrammetry scans and assembling scanned modular components to produce the final result. I scanned 9 tree species and subsequently used the tools to produce a library of over 200 vegetation assets. Additionally, I contributed to enhancing the quality of urban and offload environments, with a particular focus on the latter. I rebuilt the project-wide landscape shader from scratch to take advantage of texture-arrays, Id-maps and three levels of detail textures. During this process I assisted in developing procedural tools to create dirt roads and tracks, created tiling materials from aerial photos and scans, and built maps for customers using the evolving tools. Working for Applied has equipped me to balance a fast-paced production environment and short term requests from important clients, with longer term goals, such as effective research and development and multi-release tool maintenance.https://www.appliedintuition.com/ Show less

I co-founded and co-fund Natsura development with my partner. We are developing a comprehensive suite of plant modelling tools that serves the needs of AAA game studios and high-end vfx production companies. With a strong focus on UX and UI, we are uncompromising in our pursuit of creating the most powerful and flexible vegetation modelling tool-suite. Natsura accelerates existing workflows and unlocks entirely new approaches.Natsura provides all of the procedural and manual… Show more I co-founded and co-fund Natsura development with my partner. We are developing a comprehensive suite of plant modelling tools that serves the needs of AAA game studios and high-end vfx production companies. With a strong focus on UX and UI, we are uncompromising in our pursuit of creating the most powerful and flexible vegetation modelling tool-suite. Natsura accelerates existing workflows and unlocks entirely new approaches.Natsura provides all of the procedural and manual control that artists are used to, but it is underpinned by an all-new physically-based engine for solving plant growth which offers the fastest, most accurate and most controllable foliage simulation yet.Growing, Evolving, branching forms can be created, posed and pruned interactively or procedurally using a modular node based approach. Show less

Teaching Technical Art and Environment Modules.

During my time at HistoricVR, I helped to optimise a digital-twin of the modern Guildford Castle grounds and a historic reconstruction of the castle and surrounding area for tethered VR. I built a custom chucking and loading system using houdini and blueprints which made it possible to load and render the entire scanned keep at a resolution of ~1 vertex/cm resolution of ~24 pixels/cm. I contributed ~20 or so tree models complete with lods and pivot-hierarchies for… Show more During my time at HistoricVR, I helped to optimise a digital-twin of the modern Guildford Castle grounds and a historic reconstruction of the castle and surrounding area for tethered VR. I built a custom chucking and loading system using houdini and blueprints which made it possible to load and render the entire scanned keep at a resolution of ~1 vertex/cm resolution of ~24 pixels/cm. I contributed ~20 or so tree models complete with lods and pivot-hierarchies for shader-driven wind, which I had created using my own custom houdini tools. Show less

Working on State of the Art interactive museum installations running in Unreal.

Look Development of virtual stadiums in Unreal for Sky Sports coverage of the Ashes.

Worked on lighting, scene dressing and optimization for pre-rendered and realtime cinematics in Outriders.

I worked on Lighting, Materials and set-dressing for Outlaws as an external contractor.

I worked for Exis Interactive as a contract Environment Artist/Level Designer, building large multiplayer levels for an in-development fps with vehicular combat.

I worked with Wolfire Games in the run up to their release of Overgrowth. During my short time there I was responsible for set-dressing and lighting about half of the levels in the main campaign.

Holding Seminars and Workshops with first year animation students

Level Designer on a demo for an arcade game utilising Motion Capture technology and the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset.