Tech Art

Information

Professional Tech Art Director for over 10 years at some of the most renowned companies in the industry including Riot Games, Phoenix Labs and Netflix.

2026

Falcon TA Direction

Exporter Prototype

ProjectF TA Direction

Maya Exporter

About DTools

Modeling Tools

2013

Phoenix Labs

Tech

Technical Art Director for Project Falcon. Below you will find a link to a web page that our Art Director put together. Due to the timing of the shutdown, little was able to be saved from the project. Click on the image for a direct link!

Please refer to my resume for a full breakdown of my contributions to the project from Art, Tech Art, and Systems/Engineering.

Exporter Prototype

To solve the problem of building and exporting giant sized ships (which needed to be constructed like a level), I created an external program to act as a middle man for both exporting and asset management. Unlike typical DCC apps, this approach helped solved a few major issues by being a self contained executable.

Artists were working in both Blender and Maya which was difficult to support while maintaining similar feature sets for setup and exporting
Giving a build to outsourcers was not an option. This helped give them autonomy in asset setup right to the point of exporting directly without the need of the full teams toolset

Features

Export both .ma files and .blend files
Custom exporting scripting language
Automatic naming
Per asset export settings
Defined folder structure per asset type

Scene Hierarchy view from within the tool
Customize names per export
Hierarchy based exporting
Custom project based export preferences
Unreal plugin to talk to the editor for automatic importing of assets with custom settings
Automatic material assignments in unreal based off of asset based material association from DCC to Project

Riot Games

Technical Art Direction

Technical Art Director for Project F. Although it was canceled, the images below were released through a video showcase from Riot. I was fortunate enough to help with the art direction from both a technical and artistic point of view. Thank you to Tyson Murphy for the Art Direction and partnership in this project!

ProjectF

Most tools and systems were sadly lost to time, but there were a lot of fun aspects that I fondly remember working on:

Grass and weather systems
Real time lighting and environment per level randomization
Custom environment referencing and exporting tools (so multiple artists could work on the same level at the same time in Maya)
Exporter for characters and animations (See Image Below)

Maya Exporter

Features

Exporter and batch exporter for all models and animations
Support for multiple referenced characters and animations within a single file
Support for animation layers, custom frame ranges, and meta data

Diamant Tools

Diamant Tools is a Maya plugin that has been available for purchase since 2012. It is still in use by the industry’s top companies including Valve, Blizzard, Riot, and Sony. This project is now in a state of hold with future development.