Film Lighting and Compositing

2024 As the Character Materials lead for Dragon Age: Veilguard, I overhauled the skin treatment for characters to increase visual quality and to be more inclusive of all skintones. Originally skin only covered a range from pale peach to mid brown. The lighting team believed it was too difficult to

2016 I created the procedural map generator which was behind the blue holographic maps in Mass Effect Andromeda. The core functionality operated in Houdini, with a Frostbite wrapper and GUI to make it easier to export levels for map generation. There were two types of map: large outdoor areas composed

2024 I was responsible for character materials in Dragon Age: Veilguard. Our character creator was one of our headline features, and we wanted to give players as broad a range of inclusive options as we could. Throughout production, I advocated for players to have exposure to maximum customization options. Those

I’ve been involved since the early days in EA’s R&D related to integrating Houdini with their Frostbite Engine. I started working with Houdini professionally in 2006, as a Render TD in animated film. Later, on the Tiburon studio team at EA, I worked on the development of a Houdini head

A few of the pipeline tools I’ve created. All tools and code on this page copyright © Electronic Arts. Madden 15 Houdini Head Tool Houdini with Python Madden Football, Tiburon, Electronic Arts, 2014 Madden 15 included significant improvements in the likeness of coaches and star players. Coaches and players were

2017 Lighting technology Mass Effect: Andromeda used the Enlighten lighting system, and I was the primary tech art contact for debugging artist issues related to Enlighten. For performance reasons, most of the game environment used Static Enlighten lighting bakes. Each game asset needed Enlighten geometry to be authored according to