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A collection of Tech Art related things I worked on for our dodgeball game "Knockout City". I was primarily tasked with exploring what we could do to elevate the game on Next-Gen hardware (ps5, Xbox Series X, & High End PC) using our proprietary game engine "Viper". Some of the areas I explored:

Local light shadows
Adding particle lights to existing VFX
Higher fidelity GI with our existing reflection-probe based solution
Animated lights
Gobos

... also additional areas of exploration not shown in the video:
Ray-traced shadows
Ray-traced AO
Ray-traced reflections
RTXGI
Screen space reflections

All of these were reviewed in detail with our Graphics team and given the time we had and weighing the potential visual impact we decided to implement:
Local light shadows for spot, point, and area lights
Adding particle lights to existing VFX
A new baked probe GI system

I worked closely with our Graphics engineers to test and provide feedback as the new features were being developed and once completed I handled all of the VFX updates and re-lit half of our maps utilizing our new GI system and local light shadows.