Josh Larsen
Environment Artist :: Digital Artist
Crystal Dynamics
My most recent work at Crystal Dynamics was Perfect Dark in partnership with The Initiative. I worked as a Senior Enviornment Artist on a small/nimble team. This was a refresh/reboot of a popular 90s RARE spy shooter. This was a joy to work on and held enormous promise. I did several portions of our quite successful gameplay reveal at the 2024 Xbox Games showcase shown here. Working with Unreal 5 and Nanite forced us to create many new tools and procedures to squeeze the most of our work.
Development was halted on this project a year after the below trailer. A tremendous amount of work was created that cannot be shown publicly.
Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024
My first assignment at Crystal was as an Outsourcing Integrator on the Marvel Avengers project. Most of my time was spent providing and gathering feedback from various stakeholders, including Marvel Comics. This feedback was used working with external vendors refining assets and bringing them up to final quality. Upon asset completion, I integrated the asset into our pipeline and made sure it performed as expected. I also got to spend time working on various assets for the Wakanda Expansion, creating and bringing them to completion.
