Portfolio of Jon Alford

Characters for the Virtual Reality experience Eleven Eleven. All characters are around 30k tris using PRB materials.

This was an outfit execution using Marvelous Designer , based off concept art. Character base mesh was not modeled by me. This entire outfit asset took about Two days to complete.

I spent 13 months working on Black Panther. I worked closely with other visualization artists as well as production staff to help develop the look and feel for environments.

Other tasks include: modeling and texturing characters, props and environments to for previz and posviz. Rigging characters and props. Retopologizing vehicles or making vehicles from the art department functional in real time. Building set extensions from lidar set scans, matching those extensions to the plate and compositing  tracked camera animations of assets to the film plates and integrating them using Nuke.  Textured the panther head for the movie poster as well.  I spent 8 months working on set in Atlanta and love working on location. 

This was a speed sculpt based on a character design by Martin Lutz. I then retologized it and unwrapped it. Made materials in Substance Painter. 

http://www.lutzwork.com/

This is an original concept initially made in Zbrush. Was retopolgized in TopoGun, and materialized in Substance Painter.

This was initially sculpted and retopologized in Zbrush, and materialized in Substance Painter.  Based off this concept. http://ahedart.blogspot.com/2012/05/fat-creature-thing-sketch.html

Gatling Gun Game model. Modeled in Maya, Materialized in Substance Painter

Small utility droid I designed. Modeled in Maya, materialized in Substance Painter. 

These are some robot models made from concept. Top Robot was white box modeled by someone else.  All robots were made in Maya and materialized using physically based rendering in Maya. Material details, scratches and dirt were applied in Mari. Renders were done in Marmoset. I placed all the materials into one 4096 map per character with the exception of emissive or translucent in order to get fewer draw calls. 

This is the main character for a Leperchaun Gold Miner. Concepted in ZBrush. The clothes were made in Marvelous Designer, and retopology was done in ZBrush. Materialized in Substance Painter and rendered in Marmoset. 

This page is to show the create a player work I did on Sports Champions 2. The work I did in the in game screenshots would be hats, shoes, accessories, glasses and gloves. Displayed are screenshots of the high poly assets. They were all baked down to their low poly counterparts for use in create a player.

These are some of the characters I did for the Playstation 3 Title" Medieval moves: Deadmunds Quest. The top image is of the Mechanic. I modeled and textured the character and his weapons. 

Then we have the Chef. He had mechanical arms that came out of his back and threw objects at the player. 

I modeled and textured the Grunt to be used as the base mesh for creating variants. Some of the outfits and pros were modeled by other artists.

Titus is the last boss character. I did his modeling and texturing. 

Here are some examples of my work from the MLB 2K series and the NHL 2K series. I mostly worked on heads but I also created some other character assets such as helmets. I also worked a lot on porting content to different consoles such as WII.

This scene was modeled in Maya, and materialized in Substance Designer, with some high poly assets detailed in Zbrush. The assets were assembled in Unreal and rendered there. The scene renders are followed by screenshots of the individual assets. 

Below those are screenshots from a gold panning level I've been working on in unreal. These assets were from the asset store, I was just using them to assemble an environment for my props. 

I have experience creating LOD's for unreal environment assets as well.