PHOENIX | Development Of Materials & Shaders
Project PHOENIX
PHOENIX is a 3rd person co-op action shooter titled intended release with Sony's PS5. Using Unreal 5 Development Builds. With the cancellation of Project Draconis and the legal rights being owned by Sony a new title has spawned from the ashes. PHOENIX used many of the developed tools and knowledge gained from Project Draconis. Materials and shaders have had their fair share of updates to handle the new realistic art style and even more detail to be packed in. This page will mirror the stages and examples used for https://carlosrizo.artstation.com/pages/projectone.
The new style came online fairly quickly given the fact the environment team was cut in half. Luckily the shaders and materials supported the change right off the back.
I want to say again thanks to the amazing artist I had the pleasure of working with. We created something even better but sadly things must come to an end.
Art Director
Leads
Environment Principals
Environment Artist
World Builder Artist
Standardizing Hard Surface Props and Models
Most if not all standards created for props and Hard Surface assets are still and place from Project Draconis. The quality of our past assets has been stable and worked. Although now assets are more 1-1 with real-world counterparts, this required the Layer Shader to be retired. Assets now that can fit within a 4k texture map using Virtual Textures Should be authored in Substance Painter. We didn't have a process yet so I took the next step to create and poof out another workflow.
Look Dev
New Material Shader Success
Using the stepping stones created on Project Draconis. We felt very happy with the accomplishment of adopting a new art style in such a short time. It even runs faster while giving even more detail. "Change what we need!" was the rule at hand a many of the outstanding issues have been solved. It was an absolute honor to work with my lead and mentor Stef Velzeboer who pushed me to accomplish the technical art of Materials.
