Ubisoft NEXT Technical Art 2025 (2nd Place)

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Technical Artist

A project I made as a submission to Ubisoft NEXT Technical Art competition, which I got 2nd place. The theme was an abandoned camp site. In this project, I developed procedural tools using Houdini, shaders that brings the scene to life, and created the assets in the scene. I wanted to use this competition as an opportunity to learn and researched new techniques. By the end, I got second place in the competition and am proud of the result.

Interactive Grass Shader

Shader

Since this technical art competition is about video games, I wanted to create something that is special about video games, which is interactivity. Because of that, I decided to make an interactive grass shader, which also fits with the theme of a abandoned camp as it takes place somewhere in nature.

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Root from Curves

Houdini Procedural Tool

I had an idea of having a monstrous plant attacking the campsite, surrounding and filling the area with its roots. To make the process of placing these roots efficient and simple, I made two root generation tools with Houdini that are implemented in Unreal Engine. This tool generates roots on surfaces using a curve as an input. I wanted to create a main root with sub-roots growing all over and overlapping each other while also sticking onto surfaces.

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Root from Object

Houdini Procedural Tool

On top of the roots from curve tool, I wanted to create a different one that generates smaller roots that covers an object. Because of that, the mesh object is used as an input for the generator. The main roots grow from the bottom of the mesh to the top and more roots branching of to the sides.

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Wind Shader

Houdini Procedural Tool

To keep up with the forest theme of this project, I of course added a foliage wind shader to add movement and liveliness to the scene. The end product is a material function that outputs a world position offset and a global material parameter with all of the variables needed to control the wind.

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