Clay Nation was one of the most exciting projects I’ve had the pleasure of working with. The modestly sized team of talented creatives all worked together towards a large goal of creating a stylized entertainment focused metaverse. These conditions offered a wide range of design tasks (from asset creation to Unreal Engine development), conditions I believe I thrive in. In addition to this, the stylized clay theme of the project led to some stimulating design constraints, making each task interesting and unique.

In my time there, I focused on environmental art and design for the three regions of their metaverse. These culminated into 6 study environments, two for each region, as well as a handful of other smaller but significant tasks relating to the digital environments. 

One of my favorite aspects of the project was how it strives to create everything from scratch. Base textures, concept art, UE Blueprints, all the assets, everything is created in-house, something not often seen with teams this size. While it led to a fair bit of work, it also made it all that much more exhilarating, especially since that mindset is something I truly believe in. 

With these images below, everything within them (except for one flower and the figures) all was created by me in my time there. A majority of the designs were taken from concept art created by another artist on the team, translating them into 3D and assembling them into sample environments was where I came in.

There were several other tasks that contributed to these environments that I’m very proud of, most importantly the asset creation and an extensive procedural SBSAR master material I built, used for uniquely texturing all elements in the landscape design process. I have more information on these later in this post as well as separate portfolio submissions dedicated to them.