The Expanse
I took over as Lead Character Artist a year into production when the former lead left the company. Two weeks later the AD left for personal reasons.
My job was to maintain the momentum and land the plane. With help from all the team members and directors, we released a critically successful result.
Most of the characters had been worked out by the time I became part of the team…I refined all of their materials and made a few new models as the story and lighting developed, optimized and built nearly everyone’s hair (Avasarala and the initial hair for Toussaint was Jose Mario Villafranca).
I built Drummer's hair. Drummers model was made by the incredible skills of original lead Ryan-John Keates and I refined the materials based on the changing in-game visuals over time
I built Rayen's hair and polished his textures and materials (for nearly all of the characters.
I built Julie Mau late in the production when we were approved. This is the basic in game head mesh
Maya - head hair behind
Maya - head hair front
Old dead belter mesh
Avasarala smile. The skilled artist Jose Villafranca sculpted our stylized likenss and the hair with some direction from the AD and myself, I made the facial blendshapes for the animators to translate her performance. In person, Shohreh Aghdashloo is a wonderful human.
I made the Drummer hair mesh and refined her materials to work with our updated lighting
Maya hair in game