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Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon

This might look like any other mundane hallway in the game, but this area I was responsible for implementing a "vertical slice" finished interior environment based off Patrick Bloom's concept. I worked with all the departments, inching our in-game implementation of the artstyle to the final look <3

I am SO happy that I worked with Dima Goryainov many times on this project and helped bring his concepts to life in the game. Here's the panopticon at the center of Cryo-Archive and the original concept Dima developed for it. I hand modeled all of the in-game cables in Blender haha #MarathonTheGame

MORE cryo-archive <3 Dima once again provided this insane cable bag concept connected to the panopticon that I got to bring to life in-game! I ended up spending an equal amount of time on them as the panopticon itself. it was a really fun part of development, they turned out cool :3 #MarathonTheGame

COMPLEX! This area was so fun to work on and where I really started understanding our art style and translating the graphic realism to a 3D game environment. I spent lots of time applying Patrick Bloom's amazing graphics to all the walls and figuring out layouts and color blocking. #MarathonTheGame

So many of the things you worked on are the very things that had me stop mid-run to marvel. The branding is incredible on its own, but to see it in-world is SO striking, beautiful, unsettling, and evocative. Even something as brief as "CPLX-3... the third of how many? Will we ever know?"

I am absolutely fangirling, but it is a rare thing, having the chance to thank an artist for helping breath such vivid and enthralling life into a world that's been important to me since the 1990s. So: thank you!

Field Maintenance! I worked mostly on each of the large building exteriors, platforms, and all outlying areas. I spent a long time understanding our art style here and applied an "aerial photography" approach to making all the lines and large form graphics and color blocking. #MarathonTheGame

Joe Cross had a ton of aerial photography reference for Marathon. He liked how it flattened all the structures down to their functional forms so I figured for developing region-scale graphics, if it was all designed from the above macro view, it would feel good to run around on the human scale too.

Concept team approached regions in this way as well! Here's an early Bio-Research concept by Patrick Bloom: #MarathonTheGame #Marathon #TheArtofMarathon