Thanks to everyone who woke up early to catch our vfx talk at GDC this year. It was awesome having such a high concentration of vfx peoples in a single room. The notes and slides are here: Brutal Legend VFX Presentation - GDC 2010, and most of the movies we showed are on the vfx page.
Some background: I'm a technical/vfx artist at Double Fine Production in San Francisco. We recently wrapped up production on Brutal Legend, where I had the pleasure of working on particle fx, climates, shaders, lighting, art pipeline, and a really crappy guitar solo that was cut :) If you're unfamiliar with the game, here are a couple excellent reviews:
But besides expounding on the awesomeness of Brutal Legend, this site is a place for me to post other projects, shaders, vfx, sketches, etc..., so please peruse and enjoy.
Updates:
1-10-10: Speaking with Pete Demoreuille at GDC 2010 on the Visual Effects of Brutal Legend!
10-13-09: Brutal Legend launches!
10-15-08: Flashified galleries and removed cobwebs.
3-28-08: Finally got around to learning Python. It's as awesome as everyone always told me it would be. I'm working on a maya particle disk cache (pdc) importer/exporter to do some experiments with scientific visualization right now. I'm still not completely sold on replacing Mel with Python, but this PyMel plugin looks like it could do the trick [edit: it totally does!]
3-14-08: Fabio Policarpo is joining the graphics team at Double Fine! I've been a fan of Fabio's work since I first started in the industry and even implemented his Curved Relief Mapping paper (see the first update at the bottom of the page). How cool is that.
3-01-08: Started the Bay Area VFX Group. Drinking beer while complaining about ribbon folding is much more fun than you would ever guess.
2-01-08: Finally uploaded some old videos from college. Check out Mutagen X (Part I - Part II), and the Super-8 Cuba video. Now those were some good times...
11-05-07: Brutal Legend, the game I've been doing technical art and visual effects for has finally been announced! For more info, check out the DoubleFine News page.
2-5-06: Posted a
Zbrush render from a new model I'm experimenting with.
1-22-06: New look for site. Check out my 3ds
max 8 implementation of Curved Relief Mapping.