Category: 3D Modeling

I’m currently working on a Fear of Darkness VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) program at work. I love getting to work on these projects because they’ve been clinically proven through our NIH grants to effectively treat people’s phobias. It’s so awesome as an artist to be able to produce work that actually helps people, and this will just be one more phobia we can help treat.

I’d recently been tasked with updating the looks of our VR program Fear of Bridges. Everything here was modeled, uv mapped, and textured by me. Modeling and UV mapping was done in Maya. Materials are made with Substance. Game engine is Unity. The VR systems are the HTC Vive for desktop and the Oculus Go for mobile.

I was asked to make some materials and do some quick renders to help a client create a 3D visualization for their clients who were having a house designed.

Today I had 45 minutes to model and UV a spider for a mobile VR project. I present to you Señor Noodle Legs.

His noodle legs will be gone after rigging but this looked to the be most efficient pre-rig pose.

Here’s some examples of environments that I modeled in Maya, textured in Substance, and lit for real-time use in Unity. The environments are used as Virtual Reality Exposure treatments for people suffering with things like addictions, phobias, and PTSD.

Here’s a work in progress shot of another project. It’s looking like a pretty fun project. I had to be fairly frugal with the polygons because the final project will be running on an iPad.

These images are from a project I just wrapped up here at work. We were updating our VR system for Fear of Flying to be used on mobile devices. We wanted to update the looks while making it even lower poly so it would be able to run on even an iPhone 4s. I think the results turned out quite nice considering the strict limitations we had on the project. What’s really cool is once you’re in the plan a therapist can control the weather and environment to custom tailor each experience per client.