Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender was the first show I worked on after joining Dimension, providing an excellent introduction to virtual production. It offered a variety of environments to create and new challenges to tackle, making it a valuable learning experience. The show did spend a lot of time in post-production with a lot of the VP shots being replaced unfortunately but a few did make it to the final cut and they looked great.

I worked heavily on the burnt forest environments along with a few other artists.  This was one of the more successful environments with most VP shots staying in and it also featured in the trailers. I mainly worked on the layout and dressing, materials, and optimization. Most of the assets came from packs on the Unreal Marketplace and Quixel Megascans. I made a shader for the trees to add wind, sway, color variation, and the ability to vertex paint parts of the trees to look dead or burnt. A big optimization pass was needed which involved making LODs and lightmap UVs which were missing from many of the 3rd party assets.

The Omashu Arena was the first environment I worked on when joining Dimension. A lot of the elements were built practically and scanned which I re-topped or remodeled and textured. I set up a world-aligned layered rock material to tie to assets together and give the impression it was all carved out of solid rock. The look did go through a lot of iterations requested by the client.

The Spirit Oasis was another environment I worked a lot on, I did a range of tasks including level dressing, modeling and texturing assets, shader work, optimization, and lighting. It was a challenging scene to work on due to the limitations of using baked lighting with foliage.

I didn't do too much work on Agna Qel'a throne room, mainly just some cleanup, optimization, and a bit of lighting work. The view out of the windows was achieved with scene captures of the Spirt Oasis and northern water tribe city levels.

I also did some work on the snow shader and made a bunch of blowing snow particle effects for some of the snow scenes