While buried with other work obligations, I was really pleased to have the chance to work with some really talented people at this year’s TOJam 9, the largest game jam in Toronto. For the uninitiated, it means that participants in teams of their choosing have 48 hours the weekend of April 25 to 27 to create […]
Hi! It’s been fairly quiet here since the New Year because I’ve been working on one of the most challenging and busy contract projects by far, by doing a lot of fundamental in-game engine work. Whenever I can, I have tried to make some spare time for adding to game design concepts, aesthetics and writing fiction. […]
An engaging storyteller, Will O’Neill from Toronto, has launched his critically acclaimed game, Actual Sunlight, on Steam. Actual Sunlight stares unflinchingly into the heart and mind of a man, Evan Winters, on the throes of his greatest struggle: Of depression, work, and love. Torontonians will find some recognizable and timely allusions to our city that […]
2013 was a year of growth for me. Painful growth, thorny and weedy and out-of-place. The start of 2013: I was still coming into my own, still ill at ease with my sense of personal and cultural identity, feeling at odds and far away from home. This was despite that I had found work and rent […]
Babel’s team had a great time in its first outing at Bit Bazaar’s Arcade. Bit Bazaar is a Toronto celebration of comics, arts and crafts, and the local game development community, brought to life at Bento Miso by Jennie Faber and her team of awesome volunteers. For the short amount of time that I was […]
This is just something that I just started developing after coming out of Bit Bazaar and the first Babel build. I started thinking up the idea of creating a slice-of-life story of a girl who grew up in an entertainment agency and wants more than anything else to step into the role of an idol, […]
Just newly built on Dec 7th, 2013! Here is the artwork from Babel’s first prototype, built in Unity and 3DS Max. Story and art driven, Babel was a challenging one month build because I had to ensure that the first chapter’s script was comprehensible to the world that I had to level design for, while keeping […]
Double Blind is a project that first started in Aug 2013′s Indiecade/Oculus VR Slow Game Jam. It is a multiplayer PC first person game using the Oculus Rift Head-Up display. It features a tag game between two to four players, where one person plays at the Medusa, and are able to freeze other players in […]
Created a large format store-front display for Le Chateau Eaton Centre location using 3D rendering and design of a steam train. The main focus of my work was on texturing, composition, lighting, rendering, and post-processing in 3DS Max and Photoshop direct for print. Collaborative work with modeller and in-house graphic designer for additional Logotypes […]
Feb 2015: Updated business card for 2015 that matches with my older painting for Babel (Solace State). Dec 2013: Promotional material for Babel designed in time for Bit Bazaar Winter Market (Dec 7 2013). Small painting on business card by David Kan.
This is the first concept art that I did for Babel. It was at first just a vague idea in my head that I wanted to do something about Eastern Asia and mass consumption. I started the drawing in Hong Kong, specifically in the Wan Chai neighborhood. I finished it in Toronto.
Freelance illustration for Autodesk, using Autodesk Ink app on tablet. About: The affect of being scrutinized by such disinterested parties.
Autodesk freelance illustration, using Autodesk Ink app on tablet. About: The underside of the city shows a different palette of conversations, running counter to all that rigidity, all those grid lines.
Autodesk freelance illustration, using Autodesk Ink app on tablet. About: In the mirror, she has to think twice about the subversion of the object into Subject.