Studio Pyraxis – The Art of Joanna Erbach

Joanna Erbach

Senior Technical Artist, Illustrator and Fine Artist

Game Dev

Tech Art

Commissions

Illustration

Personal

Firesongs

Professional Gallery

Selection of commercial projects

The Dragon Age: Veilguard game character creator, showing a Qunari with makeup and face paint.

Dragon Age Veilguard: Character Materials

Montage of character faces from Dragon Age: Veilguard, with different skintones.

Dragon Age Veilguard: Skin Materials

Procedurally generated digital maps for areas of a space station in the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mass Effect Andromeda: Procedural Map Generator

A holographic map of alien terrain from the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mass Effect Andromeda: Procedural Map Generator

Frostbite - Houdini Integration R&D

Montage of software tool interfaces related to hand poses and scene animation

Tools and Pipeline work

Mass Effect Andromeda character setting off a fiery explosion

Mass Effect Andromeda: Lighting and Grading

A science fiction vehicle in the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda, plowing through a green and blue tinted alien landscape.

Mass Effect Andromeda: Hazard effects

A cartoon panda crying "why???" to the heavens while surrounded by young bunnies sparring martial arts.

Kung Fu Panda: Lighting and compositing

Painting of a giant spider-shaped robot descending a snowy mountain slope

Dune: Hunting Harkonnens Interior Illustration

Man in stillsuit with curved dagger looking down on a dimly lit industrial warehouse

Dune: Fremen Justice Interior Illustration

Stylized painting of a man trapped inside a liquor bottle with a lit wick, wreathed by flame. Icon.

Wormhole Books: Cover Illustration

Personal Gallery

Art for the joy of creation

Young woman carrying a child, young man clutching a flat disc pendant.

Icon of an old growth forest. Colored pencil illustration.

A serene black woman tending flowers and herbs in ceramic pots.

An elegant, smooth-skinned alien in formal dress. Pencil sketch.

Icon of tree houses built in a sunlit forest. Oil painting.

Portrait of a noble, serious looking elderly man with a heavy brow. Charcoal drawing.

A fierce, tattooed woman with cloth-laced braids cutting a lock of someone's hair. Pen and ink. Icon.

A nude woman embracing a huge raven in the sky as a wolf bites her leg. Digital painting. Icon.

An intelligent simian with a coin earring, perched by a water wheel, holding a stone hammer. Icon.

Portion of a board game showing paths to move and two children confronting a dragon.

A screaming lupine beast wreathed with lightning. Pen and ink drawing.

Head and torso of a nude man reclining on cushions. Chalk pastel drawing.

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