- Unreal Engine
- Virtual Production
- Film
Ark 2 Game Reveal
Unreal Engine Technical Director
Studio Wildcard, Davey Jones2020
Unreal Engine technical direction for a VFX-heavy reveal trailer for The Game Awards 2020 — digital humans, ray tracing, and automated final-pixel rendering.
Scope
- Tools and framework for artists, animators, and engineers to render final pixels in Unreal Engine
- Digital human technical art: layered skin maps, streaming virtual textures, UDIM layouts, refractive eyes, strand-based hair
- Lighting direction for still-in-development real-time ray tracing in complex outdoor environments
- Coordination for clothing, muscle, blendshape, skeletal animation, and hair grooms
- Automated rendering system for review-ready and editor-ready final-quality shots
Unreal Engine Technical Director for the Ark 2 game reveal trailer for The Game Awards 2020.
The production required a large collaborative pipeline so a VFX-heavy showpiece could be authored and rendered entirely in Unreal — including high-detail digital humans and experimental real-time ray-traced lighting.
