The Last Guardian
As an environment artist at Japan Studio on The Last Guardian back in 2009-2012, I created a slew of assets, materials and layouts for what was then the PS3 version of the game, focusing mostly on vistas, cliffs & natural environments. These screens were taken in-engine during that time. Working on that team was a humbling experience and I met a lot of geniuses before finally leaving to pursue other dreams.
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Surrounding cliffsides and rock formation work became my main tasks on the team.
Pushing the layering in the materials as far as possible was a lot of fun.
More combinations of macro & micro normal & diffuse materials, often with upvector masks and distorted macro smears and striations for maximum detail and variation within a single material with limited texture samples.
Plenty of rock to go around.
Some wet rock tests on the left, and an update of a leafy ground texture based on the cozy forest area from SotC.
These textures were all created before the days of Quixel & Substance, using good ole' Zbrush, xNormal and Photoshop.
Cave tests & material blending.
Work on the vast landscape surrounding the playable area. A single material maxed out on texture samples provided the base.
Working with lighting artist Tomohisa Oda was a great pleasure.
More cliffs and caves!
Bigger background assets
And finally... some more rocks ;)