Spirit Crossing

Copyright: Spry Fox and Netflix Games

Discover, befriend, and care for Totoro-like spirits to build a cozy cooperative village! Climb everything, make awesome friends, and build a home together. A 3rd person climbing-centric non-violent MMO made in Unreal Engine 5. Find out more here!

I began working on Spirit Crossing with the Spry Fox team in 2019, helping to build the prototype with a small development team and two artists - myself and the Art Director, Justin Oaksford, who designed and established the overall visual style of the game. As the team grew, moving from prototype to pre-production, I took on the role of Lead Character Artist, focusing on building pipelines for character processes, hiring and training character artists through production, to launch, and Live Ops, and being hands-on building character models, texturing, setting visual quality bars, and designing custom shaders and material processes. I also work on VFX, blueprints, and anim blueprints associated with characters. In my experience as a Senior Technical Artist and the team’s sole rigger, I am also designing all character rigs, their technical setup, retargeting, and skinning, working closely with our team’s animators such that tools are easy to use and animation friendly. I also contributed 3D animations early in prototyping and pre-production. I maintain character art documentation and lend time to environment and concept art as needed. Since our early prototyping, I’ve been heavily involved in the stylization, visual direction, diversity, and ethos of our characters and how players use character customization as a tool for self expression, representation, and the exploration of identity.

Villagers

Modular Player Characters

Bears

Spirits

Sky Fish (All vertex animation)

Fluffalos

Player Equipment and Instruments

More of my Spirit Crossing work is visible through the “Confidential” tab!

(Under password for Unreleased or NDA content)