https://portfolio.sunasterism.com 2026-03-06 daily 1.0 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image11.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image12.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image02.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image04.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image05.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image09.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image01.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image03.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image06.jpg https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery57/57047237.jpg Bronze https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery57/25df1339.jpg Silver https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery57/3387e84a.jpg Untitled https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/2cb6a64a.jpg Wire Tree Project https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/61da022a.jpg One in a Krillion https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/33214746.jpg Basil and the Isles of Spice https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/60f95726.jpg City Backdrops in Houdini using Mapbox / OSM Data https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/4562113e.jpg Wild Wild Wetlands https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/338cb76c.jpg Weaver's Workshop https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/040adebc.jpg Procedural Islands https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/b605f7d7.jpg Apartment Kitchen https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/29ca428e.jpg Staircase on the Hill https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/f5d59cd1.jpg Enchanted Ruins https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/6bc2e404.jpg Aphrodite's Salon https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/2d41d27b.jpg Mirage https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/07d9f0ab.jpg Ray's Coast 2 Coast https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/2743e64d.jpg Alistair https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery12/0ad1276b.jpg Traditional Paintings https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery63/5b325d67.jpg _Vectors for advection. Orange lines are tangents; yellow lines are normals; the blue lines are the directional vectors._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery48/5648dd20.jpg _Noise visualized as color._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery72/0077101d.jpg Untitled https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery60/9feec509.jpg Untitled https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image07.gif https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/image08.gif https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery68/db155a06.jpg _Enemy models._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery68/d2f6be6c.jpg _Krill-related models. The "low poly" krill is used \n in the krill swarm boids simulation._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery69/18e6081d.jpg _Concept art._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery67/be691fce.jpg _High-poly rock._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery67/73f33c96.jpg _Low-poly remeshed rock._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery67/b698f01d.jpg _Baked and textured rock._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery73/6d922802.jpg _High-poly rock._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery16/3f2798b0.jpg _Early environment sketches._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery64/2f44bac5.jpg _Shapes alpha map._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery66/a27773b6.jpg _Sand color map._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery66/ca3f00c2.png _Sand roughness map._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery66/e00718b0.jpg _Sand normal map._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery71/b4334f96.jpg _Wireframe._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery71/4d6f63df.jpg _UV Checker._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery74/fb7f08af.jpg _Worn-down sand castles._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery75/1401a835.jpg _Grayscale textures in Substance Painter._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery65/e7ca4d20.jpg _High-poly rock._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery46/134bd638.jpg _Our hub area in the final game._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery46/768f782a.jpg _The hub area, without props. All meshes here were created using my platform tool._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery21/55498691.jpg Mangrove Area https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery21/cce72315.jpg Sand Area https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery21/be5935f5.jpg Rocky Arch Area https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery18/938cdb4d.jpg _Extruded Trim._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery44/84314629.jpg _Flat trims with UV generation._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery44/341afd7f.jpg _An early in-game test of trim implementation._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery27/e2ab4da7.jpg Scatter Tool UI https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery37/906573f0.jpg Scatter Tool Network https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery35/75cfa645.jpg Flattened Curve https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery35/05adef3d.jpg Sideways Platform https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery24/8df17368.jpg Full Remesh https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery24/7201f329.jpg Remesh Only Top https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery24/f42ba83d.jpg Remesh Top Lower Poly https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery38/fa596dc5.jpg Platform Tool Node Network https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery06/4d5585c3.jpg Platform Tool Parameters https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery39/b8a782dd.jpg The Caldera https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery36/e0caac08.jpg Coral Underwater https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery36/340399dd.jpg Coral with Water Disabled https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery32/78cd8c4e.jpg Leviathan Skull Top https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery32/533489ad.jpg Leviathan Skull Bottom https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery43/011cffea.jpg _Wall modules, grouped into three different color variations._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery01/eac2b298.jpg Example Render 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery01/f1f1e50b.jpg Example Render 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery31/d9d10907.jpg _The generate\_levels script._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery42/89a8b1cf.jpg _Building silhouettes, as initially imported._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery42/634d4679.jpg _Rectangular bounding boxes on the same city layout._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery41/be162c88.jpg _The set\_road\_widths script._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery40/ce253c1a.jpg _Road Curves._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery30/b3983a69.jpg _A sample render of varied road widths._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery52/8e3868e7.jpg _Buildings with pre-existing “levels” data loom as tall skyscrapers over the rest of the city, while the generated buildings have been kept quite short._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery55/9f005a8f.jpg Basic buildings and roads in Unreal. https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery53/f0da541b.jpg Basic buildings and roads in Unreal. https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery45/e19f77ef.jpg _Generated wall modules are deleted, leaving behind only instance points, building corners, and roofs._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery47/a691d830.jpg _The Houdini network for generating placeholder boxes. Every time the loop repeats, a new box is created, attributes are added, and it is merged together with the previous boxes._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery34/647caa67.jpg _The pattern I used for matching module names._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery51/8695479a.jpg _One generated building._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery51/79d524b1.jpg _The whole city!_ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery54/d751df3c.jpg Blue https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery54/c2ee9feb.jpg Green https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery54/a5908e36.jpg Red https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery61/887b4242.jpg _Building instance points._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery61/7f7a6e23.jpg _Cube geometry for buildings._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery61/ee30652b.jpg _The resulting mask._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery62/9c9ed9ed.jpg Basic buildings and roads in Unreal. https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery58/74075a4c.jpg _Generated curves follow the original roads. The \n blue-colored points are prop placement locations._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery58/1993b53c.jpg _The bounding region is shown here in blue. \n Overlapping points are selected in orange._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery58/68e7574c.jpg _Overlapping points deleted._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery59/e9f2a09d.jpg _The generated volume for all input buildings and props._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery59/0a02645c.jpg _Overlapping points are selected in orange. \n All props that contain an overlapping point will be deleted._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery50/25408be0.jpg _The remove\_close\_points script._ https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery56/1a324d84.jpg Basic buildings and roads in Unreal. https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery09/27cdcd3e.jpg Countertop Detail https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery09/74eea94e.jpg Stove Detail https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery09/5aa3d634.jpg Shelf Detail https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery15/e3243a23.jpg Final Render https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery02/7a823603.jpg Sketches 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery02/38d804fd.jpg Sketches 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery03/6ced42fa.jpg Moodboard https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery11/8299280d.jpg Wireframe https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery11/ce112c35.jpg UV Checkerboard https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery25/1c078b81.jpg Final Render https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery25/69a301ac.jpg Untitled https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery10/b01107bd.png Reference + Concept https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery10/e3b384db.jpg Thumbnails https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery29/bd380cf5.jpg Untitled https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery29/971a33ca.jpg Color Thumbnails https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery26/5e570a03.jpg Still 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery26/a847ae69.jpg Still 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery26/df533ea8.jpg Still 3 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery28/21935554.jpg Color Thumbnails https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery14/1ebd1085.jpg Final Render https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery08/9cd024bf.jpg Example 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery08/451993cd.jpg Example 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery08/8cd32312.jpg Example 3 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery33/5ba62d8c.jpg Screenshot 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery33/c1a819c6.jpg Screenshot 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery33/2616ccc2.jpg Screenshot 3 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery23/96b4f572.jpg Screenshot 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery23/16ae139f.jpg Screenshot 3 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery17/d437b574.jpg Screenshot 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery04/6a20a8b6.jpg Screenshot 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery04/e047bf53.jpg Screenshot 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery04/9c17ebf2.jpg Screenshot 3 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery20/33766468.jpg Concept 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery20/df40a51b.jpg Concept 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery07/0da1e981.jpg Aphrodite's Salon https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery13/94bfe197.jpg Calm https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery13/e09d11ea.jpg Dreary https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery13/38a90497.jpg Hopeful https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery13/7c9290d7.jpg Uneasy https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery19/855d1062.jpg Front / Back Poses https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery19/a6f98168.jpg Acting and Expressions https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery22/af97a73d.jpg Moodboard https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery22/4a72d1ed.jpg Color Comps https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery22/8c54b524.jpg Sketches 1 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery22/6c70cbd9.jpg Sketches 2 https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/f8871e6b.jpg Pier - Kirkland Waterfront https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/b21e8058.jpg Mt. Rainier https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/fdf18fad.jpg Juanita Bay Park https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/d221f715.jpg Building - Kirkland Waterfront https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/e7e14537.jpg Pumpkins Still-Life https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/36aed66d.jpg Willows Road https://portfolio.sunasterism.com/assets/images/gallery05/246f2491.jpg Still Life - Greens