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.

» 9th Day of Frost [Slideshow]

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The Guardian

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Morning Thaw (Terragen)

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Hazy Crevice (Terragen)

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Weathered Mountains (Bryce)

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Sunsea (Bryce)

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Sunset Lake (Terragen)

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Molten Shoeprints (Photoshop)

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Mom (Photoshop)

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The Cogs Within (Photoshop)

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SandStorm's Eye (Photoshop)

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Island Chain (Bryce)

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Heart of Fire (Photoshop)

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Skydome (Photoshop)

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The Way Through (Photoshop)

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Mahjong (Photoshop)

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The Door of the Sun (Photoshop)

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An Unclear View (Photoshop)

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Window Through Which Daylight Comes (Photoshop)

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The Dregs [4 pictures]

The lesser-quality images from the 9th Day of Frost series are in here. Some are still quite interesting.

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