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My role:
My role:
Artist, Designer, Composer, Producer
Sole artist on a team of three in a remote-adjacent workflow
Full 3D environment & prop asset pipeline
Procedural filling of bookshelf assets with 143,520 book assets using the MASH plugin for Maya
UDIM workflow for random distribution of five possible book covers
Lighting design & particle effects
Original concept art, design, & style guide
Composer (Original Soundtrack)
Voice artist ("Brownie") & sound production
Project management per Scrum/Agile methodology
Ex Libris is a management game with elements of simulation, puzzle, and a light narrative. It calls players to engage in the duties and challenges of an everyday job within an extraordinary and mysterious setting.
The team:
The team:
Aidan Schneider - DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN
Ned Mollison - DEVELOPMENT
Production time:
Production time:
6 weeks
Bookshelves
Bookshelves
Procedurally filled using MASH-- book sizes, textures, positions randomised within parameters.
Textures randomised through UDIM Mari workflow.
Modelled in Maya; textured in Substance Painter.
Books
Books
Single book mesh with five different textures created in Substance Painter.
Decorated with alphas created in Photoshop after diagrams sourced from historical grimoires, as well as public domain book illustrations and ornaments.
Environmental assets
Environmental assets
Used and unused models.
CONCEPT ART
CONCEPT ART
LIBRARY MAP (LEVEL DESIGN)
LIBRARY MAP (LEVEL DESIGN)
Given the game's reliance on the compass points and exploration, eight- or four-sidedness, octagons, and symmetry feature heavily in the layout of the library. Its architecture is strongly influenced by Gothic cathedrals and Oxford libraries.
Taliesin's Taxonomy is the Dewey Decimal-esque cataloguing system employed by any self-respecting magical library.
STYLE GUIDE EXCERPTS
STYLE GUIDE EXCERPTS
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