contact: nicholasetheridge@hotmail.com
Tel: 07906647361
I made this page for minimal clicking, as I know some prefer to see all the work within a single page.
Driver: San Francisco
Project: A Ubisoft game, out now on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC and Mac.
Date: 2009-2011
Software Used: 3DS Max, Photoshop, Google Maps/Street View, Perforce, Ubisoft's own bespoke engine and toolchain.
Role: My role included but was not limited to the following:
- In charge of props, both destructible and static, ramps and advertising billboards.
- Modelled, textured and set up physics for these props. Set up cut scene cameras for narrative billboards.
- Blocked out large areas of the city based on design guidelines and using Google street view as a guide.
- Created terrain, buildings, and prop placement based on the block out.
- Corresponded with outsourcing studios, giving feedback and guidance to produce the best work possible to tight deadlines.
- Helped maintain schedules and assisted other artists' as part of a "triage" team.
- In charge of junior artists, training, scheduling and working to tight deadlines on specific tasks.
Below illustrates some of the props, terrain and buildings I worked on. Buy the game to see everything ;-)
Newcastle Building (Work in Progess)
Project: A project to get more skillful in Zbrush and UDK, as well as modular design. This is based on a Victorian building in Newcastle.
Date: Work in progress
Triangle Count: TBA
Texture Resolution: Around 256 pixels per meter. Diffuse, Normal, Specular (and in some cases Emissive and Parallax)
Build Time: on going
Software Used: 3DS Max, Zbrush, Unreal Engine, Photoshop, Crazybump
Additional Info: Runs in realtime on the Unreal Engine
All images are currently work in progress.
Sculpts
Converse All Stars Shoe
Project: Created for Ubisoft as a show piece for outsourcing use. Both clean and dirty versions were made
Date: August 2011
Triangle Count: 4137 triangles
Texture Resolution: 2048*2048 Diffuse, Normal and Specular
Build Time: 2 Weeks
Software Used: 3DS Max, Mudbox, Photoshop, Crazybump
Clean and Dirty Versions
Orthographic Views
High Poly and Low Poly Wireframe
Low Poly with Normal map
Texture sheets. Diffuse, Normal and Specular
Mediterranean Scene
Project: This was a team exercise at Ubisoft to see what we could do using the Unreal Engine in 2 weeks. The brief was to make a mediterranean street using modular assets.
My role: I mainly concentrated on learning different techniques for foliage and Ivy, as well as doing a few street props.
Date: August 2011
Build Time: 2 Weeks
Software Used: 3DS Max, Photoshop, Crazybump, Ivy Generator (by Thomas Luft), Unreal Engine 3
Dead to Rights: Retribution
Project: Worked on the pre-development phase of Dead to Rights: Retribution, props, weapons and environments.
Date: 2007
Console: Xbox 360 and PS3
Software Used: Maya, Photoshop, Crazybump and Blitz' own bespoke engine, database and toolchain.
For the Hotel lobby I created the geometry and some of the textures, for the props and weapons I created all of the geometry and textures.
Castle Hall
Project:Created as a Final Year University piece, accompanying a 10,000 word dissertation on medieval architecture and current game technology. The hall was primarily based on Hampton Court Palace and Middle Temple Hall in London.
Date: Early 2009
Triangle Count: 20,249 triangles (90,245 including all instances)
Texture Resolution:1024*1024 and 512*512 Diffuse, Normal and Specular maps. Paralax maps for the brick wall, and Alpha maps in certain places.
Build Time: Just over a month
Software Used: 3DS Max, Maya, Mudbox, Photoshop, Crazybump, Unreal Engine 3
Additional Info: Won 3rd place in the Vis Awards 2009 - Modelling Category (sponsored and judged by Ubisoft). I was hired by Ubisoft as a result.
Unreal Screenshots
Textures: Normal, Diffuse and Specular
Chair Prop
Project: Created for a Game-Artist.net competition. The brief was to create a model based on this concept in 2000 tris or under.
Date: August 2009
Triangle Count:1348 triangles
Texture Resolution:1024*1024 Diffuse, Normal and Specular
Build Time: 3 days
Software Used: 3DS Max, Mudbox, Photoshop, Crazybump
Additional Info: Rendered in realtime using the Marmoset engine.
Texture sheets and wireframe
Tak: And the Guardians of Gross
Project: A Blitz Games Studios game for the Wii and PS2.
Date: 2008
Software Used: Maya, Photoshop, Blitz Tech
Roles:
- Modeling, texturing and lighting (vertex lighting) of props and environments to a stylized look.
- Placement of foliage, props and collision.
- Cleaned up outsourced work.
- Working with designers in an iterative process to crystallize the gameplay and environments.
Screenshots of the environments will come soon.
Stream
Project: A personal project to learn how to create foliage.
Date: July 2009
Triangle Count: 12,771 (Includes double sided polygons such as Grass planes)
Textures: Diffuse, Normal, Specular and Alpha
Build Time: Approx 1 week
Software Used: 3DS Max, Mudbox, Photoshop, Crazybump
Additional Info: This was my first attempt at making foliage. The lightmaps were baked and the Grass and Leaf planes were lit using Vertex Colouring.
Texture sheets and wireframe
