Chris McElligott Park

Founder and Lead Designer at Arcen Games, LLC.

This is an incredibly old set of my art! This chronicles 1998 to 2008 for me. This is back when I used to work in raytraced offline 3D programs, and rendering a single frame usually took 5 minutes to 36 hours.

I now work in realtime raster 3D, so I get on average between 1/60th to 1/100th of one second to make something a lot prettier not only display, but also be interactive. Shaders, once so mysterious to me, are now things I routinely code.

I've never been all that superb of a modeler, but I enjoy 3D painting, scene composition, and more recently have gotten into motion capture and animation. I'm also a big fan of working with the post-processing stack, as well as using custom shaders to break out of the shackles of current-gen PBR and toy with heightened-reality lighting.

You can see a lot of my work on Arcen's Youtube channel, including the occasional instructional video.

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Stormy Mount (Terragen)

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Snow Covered Mountain (Terragen)

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Isolated Lake (Terragen)

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Crater Pit (Terragen & Photoshop)

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Green Mountains (Terragen)

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Green Mounains II (Terragen)

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Green Mountains Again (Terragen)

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Snowy Island (Terragen)

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Distant Lands (Terragen & Photoshop)

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Lowlands (Terragen & Photoshop)

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Ice and Fire (Bryce)

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The Cape's Gateway (Terragen & Photoshop)

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Dusky Red Mountains (Terragen)

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Purot (Bryce & Photoshop)

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The Dregs [15 pictures]

The lesser-quality images from the 7-11 series are in here. Some are still quite interesting. "Ghost Town of the Damned" is actually a Bryce image that includes a building model that I imported from a Counter-Strike game map that I created in college.

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