Tools: Gamebryo 2.6, MouseTrap, Maya 2008 & Photoshop CS3
Technical Artist on Epic Mickey (1 of 3 T.A.s) - my work comprised mostly of:
- Creating effects - Particles and otherwise for things like ‘thinner’, steam, smoke, electrical stuff, bursts & blooms, etc.
- Creating shaders for use on Wii for materials and effects
- Fixing transparency sorting issues, balancing draw calls, scene graph adjustment for performance
- Memory optimizations for shipping
- Scripts used for exporting
Example of some
shaders & materials created:
NOTE: Models & diffuse
textures are NOT mine, not all effects in the following video are
mine.
All movies on this page captured from Wii hardware.
The Nintendo Wii has a
unique semi-fixed function pipeline that allowes for some specific
modifications that can be twisted into good art.
Most shaders were generated in this Nintendo developer tool, and then
the code was further optimized from what this would generate.
Example of some 'Thinner' effects: (the green goey stuff)
- All movies on this page captured from Wii hardware
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