Halo Infinite: Cliffhanger Shaders
I'm excited to share the results of my involvement in Halo Infinite Season Three, titled Echoes Within. This is the most recent major content update, which includes a slew of new features like new maps, weapons, and gear. I provided the following assets as part of Sperasoft's collaboration with 343 Industries. One day I was tasked with researching a possibility of creating a volumetric ice shader. My position was regular 3D Artist and did not assume tech art but I've had some basic shader understanding at that moment, though far from advanced level required for this task so I've had to learn a lot on the fly. It was challenging (but fun) and I ended up making two more shaders for this map. Everything shown in this artwork on the art side is made by other team members except the waterfalls, for the frozen lake and icicles my responsibility was only creating the shader to help achieve the required look. After completing these tasks, my duties at work shifted a lot to the Tech Art side and that is, I have to admit, very fun journey. Since then I learned much more about shaders, optimization, rendering pipeline in general, and performance profiling, Big thanks to 343 Industries Tech Art team who answered lots of my questions. (Kurt Diegert, Chiyo Lai, Logan McClure)
