2018/2019 - Playwing work - Instant War: New Hozirons
Continuing the Instant War art dump with works for one of the most ambitious updates that we made by far. A whole new tycoon mode for Update 08 : New Horizons, which basically introduced a new game within our game  I was working closely with the talented concept artists from Eastworks for each of the buildings' concepts. I was responsible for the overall Tycoon art direction and visuals, and decided to use Unreal Engine as a tool to illustrate my ideas. We did some camera projection on several buildings' concepts over their 3d mock-ups (used for the same exact concepts), and imported them in UE. I tweaked the basic materials, sculpted the terrain, composed my overall layout and populated it with assets (some crates, vegetation, roads, rocks etc. from Unreal Marketplace). It was a really fast and iterative way of working, and I'm really glad that I've experimented with using Unreal for vis-dev. Another key aspect for the update was the introduction of new units, which I made in 3d.
Final tycoon concept art.
I had lot's of fun conceptualizing the Tycoon visuals and layout. Unreal Engine really made the whole process fast and iterative and I find it to be a great and powerful tool for vis-dev.
Final buildings concepts done by Eastworks. It was a pleasure working with them.
The tier 07 infantry had a different origin story (made from salvaged alien tech) and it was a collaborative piece with Stefan Tsvetkov.
Final in-game splash screen
Instant War: New Horizons update announcement trailer