how Redfall’s foliage assets were made

CG Spectrum 3D Modeling Mentor and Senior Environment Artist at Arkane Austin, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, will be speaking at the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC)! In the session Fall Foliage in ‘Redfall’: Creating the Essence of Northeast America, Ehsan will explore how to create a good game workflow using the game Redfall and its foliage workflows as an example.

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Meanwhile, scroll down to learn more about Ehsan and the awesome GDC session he’ll be presenting!

About Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh

Hailing from Iran, Ehsan has been working in video games, covering a range of roles, since 2009. He currently resides in Austin, Texas, working at Arkane Studios as a Senior Environment Artist. He is also a 3D Modeling Mentor at CG Spectrum. 

Fall Foliage in ‘Redfall’: Creating the Essence of Northeast America

In this upcoming GDC session, you’ll learn about Arkane Austin’s foliage workflow for Redfall and how they created the eerie but beautiful Fall landscape.

Using individually 3D-modeled leaves as well as procedural methods, Ehsan and the Arkane Austin team created an impressive foliage asset library and implemented a workflow that allowed for easy iterations based on internal and client needs.

Ehsan will also do a post-mortem on Redfall‘s workflow, looking at how processes and procedures could be improved for future games and projects.

Still from Redfall showing the number of leaves and other foliage in the 3D environment.

Who should attend?

This talk will be great for aspiring and current 3D modelers interested in procedural modeling techniques and for people working in (or hoping to get into) game development roles looking for ways to produce non-destructive workflows that enable easy updates and iterations.

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