Necro Shaman design.

Digital sketch compilation.

These are some of my favorite sketches from around mid 2015 to 2016.

Sketchbook scan compilation.

These are some of my favorite sketches from around mid 2015 to 2016.

Asset designs and development progression for Masters & Minions, my personal senior capstone project, developed while I was at USC.

In Masters & Minions, you are a Dark Master traveling with your horde of Minions, and you're engaging in battle with another Dark Master and their Minions over control of an empty Dungeon. Every Dark Master needs a Dungeon!

Masters & Minions is a two player strategy game on mobile. Gameplay is similar to the classic game Extreme Tic Tac Toe [link], where the Dungeon is one large Tic Tac Toe board and each space (each Room) in the Dungeon is a smaller Tic Tac Toe board. Player use a variety of powerful Minions to conquer the Dungeon from each other, Room by Room.

I am responsible entirely for the design of Masters and Minions, as well as the majority of its code and 2D assets.
Music has been developed by Marc Dolgin, animations by Jonathan Eden, and AI by Derek Eom.

I have been developing Masters & Minions for a year (started June 2016). Masters & Minions is not yet released, but stay tuned!

Each concept shown took between 5-20 minutes to create, the standard was 20 minutes a concept. Finished asset development took 30 minutes for the Minions, and 1 hour for most of the Dungeon Rooms and UI.
Due to the nature of mobile games, the Minions went through multiple iterations for the sake of improving their readability in-game.

I used Photoshop to create these Minion and Dungeon designs. I used Maya to concept some of the designs, using the 3D software to help me draw at the games angled perspective.

About the Minions:
-The Grunt Minion is the players standard Minion.
-The Winning and Losing Minions are gold reward Minions, if a Winning Minion is in a room that is won by it's team, or a Losing Minion in a room that is lost, the player gets a gold reward in-game. 
-The Mage Minion allows the player who plays the Mage Minion to pick which Room their opponent will move in next, rather than it being chosen by where the Mage Minion was placed.

Personal Adventure Time fan art piece. 

Jotun King was made over a 3 week period, taking an estimated 60 hours of development. Jotun King was made in Photoshop primarily using the Pen vector tool.

Jotun King was inspired by Season 6 episode 35 of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, Graybles 1000+, where a glimpse of the futuristic Ice King is shown. I was very dissatisfied with the design, and decided to make my own.

Details and Inspirations, the long [and nerdy] version:

-All designs were made to look as similar to those featured in Adventure Time as possible, colors we taken directly from the source material. 

-The Ice King (now the Jotun King) is featured about 100+ times his normal size, the idea being he grew into a mighty frost giant and began wandering Ooo with his horde of Snow Giants. 
-Future Finn has a few added pieces of equipment, the more canon inspired pieces will be explained, the others we just things I threw in, such as the demon colored Katana, the kilt, the shoes, backpack, scars, and top knot.

-Finn's Grass Sword, which has taken over his whole left arm in this future rendering, and has sprouted a bonsai tree. 

-Finn's Crown, which is not only has an adjustable size, but is colored after Billy's Gauntlet.

-Finn's gauntlet [right arm], The Finn Shield, which is also colored after Billy's Gauntlet and is meant to be a recycled Finn Sword. The idea is that after the Finn Swords breaking its remains and the separate conscious of Finn were remade into the Finn Shield which can project a forcefield in the shape of a younger Finn. 

-Jake also has a new piece of equipment, the Shape-Shifters Maul, a gift from Jake's interdimensional parent; the Shape-shifter. The idea is that shape-shifters in their home dimension don't use tools, but rather develop specialized limbs to use when needed, and that one day the Shape-shifter came to Jake and gifted him the Shape-Shifters Maul [which is in fact a limb, not just a maul] for his birthday. The Maul can be shrunk and enlarged, as can it's conjoined limb, but it can't be removed or shape-shifted away, a fact that very much distresses Jake since the Maul tends to creep him out. All the colors and designs for the Maul are taken from the Shape-shifters design.

-The clouds, Snow Dragon, and Snow Giant are all inspired by the designs of the Ice Kingdom and Ice Monsters from Adventure Time.

These are environments I concepted at an internship at GameDesk Los Angeles, for Warp Driver: Golf In Space. These are meant to be alien planets set up to serve as golf courses.

Enemy unit design I made for a Glam Rock themed game called Bardcore. Bardcore was a Graduate Thesis project developed at The University of Souther California.

This is my first attempt at pixel art and the first time I animated for a game.

Character reimagining of the old folk story 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'.

The idea was that the 'wolf' is actually a werewolf and the 'boy' a 16-19 year old warrior who hunts the werewolves.

Private art endeavor, experimenting with shading and gradient mapping in Photoshop.

The idea behind this little guy is that he was born with an unfortunately small nose (for a goblin), and to prove to himself to his clan he decided to go out and kill the biggest thing he could find, which turned out to be a rather unfortunate Frost Giant. Grits now carries around the skull of his trophy kill as a reminder to his clan of his might, as well as an effective bludgeoning weapon.

Player avatars I made for a 4 month school game project called Gladius 2051.

The game was a Digital Gladiator themed local competitive shooter. The art style was inspired by Tron and Roman gladiator themes/designs.

Personal project. 

Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy strategy game.

Unit design for an Advanced Game Project I worked on at The University of Southern California called King Basil's Quest for the Crown of Spudly Awesomeness.

Turret tower unit I made for an Advanced Game Project I worked on at The University of Southern California called King Basil's Quest for the Crown of Spudly Awesomeness.

This was a design for a 'magical' artillery tower used by the enemies in the game, who were Funkadelic Necromancer Fry Cooks.

TURNAROUND

Yeti model, made in ZBrush over a 3 week period, 16 hours of work total.

My first major project in ZBrush. Super happy with how it came out!

Concept reference

Demo Reel

Model and video I made for an advanced 3D modeling class at The University of Southern California.

The model was made over a 4 week period, 30 hours of work total, during which I did the original design for the model, concept artwork, mesh modeling, particle effects, UV unwrapping and mapping, texturing, and rigging.

The environment was made over a 2 day period, 6 hours of work total, during which I did the modeling, UV unwrapping, and texturing.

Video was made over a 1 week period, 5 hours of work total, during which I did the scene set up, lighting, animations, environmental particle effects, and camera work.

The model was heavily influenced by Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k Ork Deff Dread designs, but all designs for the model were done from scratch by me.

Create a self portrait of myself as a character in a PlayStation 2 game.

Model and texture were both made based of pictures taken of myself.

3D assets I made for an AR game on the Google Tango, Tiki Pong.

Game trailer and game play showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToYYjTnh5IY