With the trust of the Magic team, I was lucky to get involved with many aspects of
Magic Legends' development.
My roles include : early mood concept, key story beat concept, character/creature
design, modular environment design, prop design, UI, 3d gameplay area blockout,
VFX concept/animation.
We had a great concept team. There was no room for individual ego. We really
worked as a team. Below are some of the works I did.
BENALIA
Early concept
SHIV
Shiv is reshaped constantly by geothermal forces.
Early storyboard concept.
Based on the early mood concept, the next step was a 3d game view mockup test.
Also showing early idea of how to modularized the environment.
Blender 2. 79 shout-out!
Leshrac : one of the major boss concept
These were rose window design that would be mapped onto the environment concept above.
I attempted to put a bit of narrative in these design.
Above was a materials study for the 3d artists.
Benalia is a white mana region.
Visualizing how the creatures would be like in this plane.
Ghitu culture concept.
They are adept at fire magic.
Below are character and creature concept.
LEGION CULTURE
Props design for this group
below is the separation parts for mix and match purpose
I had a lot of fun designing the casket
It was even better when I got to design the cart (made up of ship parts) to transport the casket
Tents and arrangement
Demiplane, the forgotten realms concept.
God statues design. They would be placed around the Demiplane area.
Adobe Mixamo character was used for scale ref.
Horror props design
VFX and skills concept
Tazeem
Tazeem is a perilous combination of reef-rock forests, a deep inland sea, and a great white-water river that bisects the continent.
IXALAN
vegetation
AMONKHAT
initial concept then break down into modular pieces
UI
This booster pack concept was a wonderful collaboration experience with Kelly Perry and Andrey Dorozhko!
While this is nothing close to final, I had great fun animating.
There are a few regions which I am not able to show publicly.
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When Covid hit, many of us were forced to work from home. Our lead Dave came up a brilliant idea. It was called Scribble Time. We set out 1 hour every Wed to just hang out and sketch with the team (Dave Phillips, Kelly Perry, Ahmed Rawi, and me). Sometimes, other members from different departments also joined us. It was fun!
Below is one of the sketch we did. I really appreciated the team.
