Halo Infinite : Campaign Environments

Worked on the stone ring assets zbrush and materials

Deadlands was an area that need more help and jumped in to do some look dev. The world builders took my look dev and propagated it to this area. Thanks to Biome team for helping implement the look changes.

The next few shots show the banished grounds look for bases that was used in Zeta Halo. It is a dryer look with more foot traffic. I provided the textures and last concept to push these areas further. Biome team did the integration work.

Also shows some puddles, I provided the water textures to the shader artist for all kinds of water in Zeta Halo.

Helped Provide Textures for grasslands areas and paths. Biome team implemented the logic on how it all blends.

The cave biomes in Zeta Halo were all created modeled and textured by myself. The Caves are extremely modular in design. I used a houdini tool that was made by the tech art team to pre displace main forms with a macro normal and height.

The rocks are zbrush sculpted and some were reworked from scan data.

I was also put on to do the banished tunnel caves. Using the same tool I used to pre displace with a textures the ribbed look of the carved caves.

These are used in many places through out Zeta Halo.

It was really fun working on these tunnel textures. Pre pro done by Nate Castronovo.

These were kind of last addition to add extra elements to Zeta Halo. These are fight ring pits or in this case triangles. Using a macro displaced the scree than added blends for the red paint with some basic dirt. We have several versions.

This is Boss HQ interior. Due to time the Biome team did not have much time to spend on this so I jumped in to do the work on the terrain and variants. Chris Lewis provided the blends for hardsurface.

Ryan Roth was the world builder and artist for this so once the elements were setup he set dressed and helped blend all of it together. It looks fantastic imo. It was fun to work on.

During the production of Halo Infinite our beloved Technical Lead Jens Hauch passed. A few months later leadership asked if we could do a memorial for him in the game.

This was an effort by all the environment teams. World Builders, Biome, Surfacing, and Modeling came together for this. Also sound / Music teams with design scripts so the mood changes a bit here. Concept also helped with the vision for it.

I was extremely honored to have worked on this. It was an emotional work, and I hope the best for Jens H family. Worked on the modeling of the structure and materials.