Forest Guardian

I had the honour of conceptualizing, directing and being the lead artist on the 'Forest Guardian' project at Epic Games, which was part of the launch of the UEFN platform during GDC 2023. As well as the UEFN demo, I created this UE5 cinematic render of the waterfall dragon lair, which is the boss battle arena of the UEFN game demo.

The project grew out of my original concept as a solo game jam project internally. A larger team was then formed to help finish the project, with Roberto Costas ( https://www.artstation.com/lusco ) joining me as a fellow lead artist / partner in crime 2 months before launch, and I couldn't have finished it without his talent and hard work.

Jarad Vincent ( https://www.artstation.com/jaradv ) designed and sculpted the final dragon creature, which was retopologized and textured by Art Bully Productions ( https://www.artstation.com/artbullyproductions ) , rigged by Chase Cooper ( https://twitter.com/chasescooper?lang=en-GB ) and animated by Fredrik Nilsson ( https://twitter.com/frednilsson?lang=en ) and Ari Flesch (https://www.artstation.com/ariflesch ). Jamie Mossahebi and Skyler Laston-Gaeta were the producers on the project.