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.

» 6th Sensibility [Slideshow]

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Cliff Jumping, or Fall Revisited (Bryce, Poser)

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Top of the World (Bryce, Poser)

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Before the Storm (Bryce) Shown at NCSU gallery.

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Roanoke (Bryce)

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Sol (Bryce)

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Floating Island Journeys (Bryce)

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Floating Island Into the Storm (Bryce)

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Blizzard Rimes (Bryce)

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Ice Land Through the Mist (Bryce)

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Egg Nest (Photoshop)

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Floating Island in the Nexus (Bryce)

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The Phyrexian Thing (Bryce)

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Hurricane Cometh (Bryce)

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Hazy Inlet (Bryce, Poser)

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Big Rock (Bryce)

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Eagle's Eye (Photoshop)

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Fennell (Photoshop)

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Throat Frog (Photoshop)

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Pincher Beetle (Photoshop)

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Tidal Forest (Photoshop)

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Electric Coral (Photoshop)

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Skies [24 pictures]

This is the same thin scene, rendered with 24 different skies/atmospheres. On a past website, I had this cycle randomly at the top of the page so that each page load had a different sky attached. All of these are rendered with Bryce.

The Dregs [2 pictures]

The lesser-quality images from the 6th Sensibility series are in here. Some are still quite interesting. These were simply me playing around with the Genesis VFX plug-in for Photoshop.

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