Future Volunteer Recruitment: Art

[Cipher]

We're opening this thread to allow people who have experience with both 2D and 3D art, modeling, and animation to have a place to offer their help / volunteer in the future. Please note that we're not currently bringing anyone in; this thread acts is a place of reference for when we do :)

 

Please do not include personal information in this thread!

 

When replying to this thread, please include the following information:

• Your Discord tag
  
• Applicable skills (see below)
  
• Availability & time zone
  
• Tools and software that you are familiar with
  
• What you would be interested in working on
  

 

We're currently building a more technical and detailed list, but we're currently looking at people who:

• Are able to create 2D art and graphics
  
• Are able to create and modify textured 3D assets
  
• Are able to create and modify 3D animations
  
• Are familiar with 3DS Studio 2011
  
• Are able to create and modify Visual Effects (VFX)
  
• Are happy to use Discord to communicate with the rest of the team
  

[Mikazuki]

Hello there, guess creating art assets for the game will take a while, not sure whats the status on demystifying the developer kit is at the moment, but i'd like to pitch in when the possibility arises:

 

Discord: @Mikazuki#7052

 

Applicable skills:

 

5 years of creating 3d assets.

 

2 or so years of working with animation pipelines.

 

Not an illustrator but capable with general 2d graphics.

 

Little experience with VFX.

 

Spend most of my day on discord(even at work, i know, bad example.)

 

 

Availability:

 

Few hours each weekend, not much to offer here sadly, usually really busy on weekdays.

 

Tools and software:

 

Maya is the one i'm most familiar with, worked a fair bit with blender in the past, know how to handle myself on 3DS whenever maya is not available.

 

Interested in working on:

 

Outfits mostly, lol.

 

Enemy groups might also be nice, maybe by the time we can add custom content to the game, mastermind pet customization becomes a thing o:

 

 

 

That's about it i guess~

[Flashtoo]

Hi! Mostly-2D artist reporting in. I have some ability to do 3D stuff but not with the program you're asking for.

 

Discord: @Flashtoo#8329

 

Applicable skills:

 

I have only a little bit of 3D modeling skill but I can texture existing models like a boss. I've been doing game texture modding for longer than I can count and 100% of my experience is with older games (mostly Morrowind, where I got my start, and some texture mods here too). This includes designing particles for VFX in addition to all types of 3D object surfaces.

 

I can also illustrate and my favored style is Western-comicbooky.

 

Availability: I'm on Discord almost constantly and unemployed. My schedule is as flexible as it can possibly be.

 

Tools and software: Unfortunately I only know Blender 3D, seeing as it's the free option... as for 2D stuff I have Photoshop CS6 and the related NVidia plugins for generating normal maps and saving as .dds.

 

Interested in working on: Literally anything that needs a coat of paint. I've done textures before for faces, clothing, architecture, weapons, pretty much everything. Clothes are my favorite - hand me a generic model and some UV maps (bonus if the model is alpha-enabled, for cutouts and transparent areas!) and I'll make entire wardrobes. I'll throw some concept art your way if you want it, too.

 

 

Thanks, looking forward to working with you :)

[MisterControl]

Hi,

 

I've been itching to get my hands dirty and bring my skills to help the community.

 

Discord:

@SpyHunt3D #9524

 

Always logged in and on discord, happy to use it as a collaboration tool.

 

Work experience:

 

Microsoft

Monolith Productions

343 Industries

 

Applicable Skills:

 

Over 7 years working on video games, movies and TV 4 of which was AAA game studios, now working at an indie game studio.

 

I've worked with 3D and 2D animations. I'm more of a modeler and texture artist but I have extensive knowledge of animation.

I have plenty of game engine and game dev experience. I've even dabbled in C++ within Unreal Engine.

 

My 2d art skills are medium grade.

 

I have medium knowledge doing VFX as well, mostly 3d VFX work within Unreal Engine.

 

Programs:

 

3DS Max, Zbrush, Substance Painter/Designer, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Spine animation software

 

Availability:

 

EST

 

Mostly after 7 or 8pm during the week and weekends are mostly free unless I specify ahead of time. I do have a family and will let you know if I have previous engagements.

 

Interests:

 

I'd be interested in working on environments, VFX, texturing and animations. Possibly some creatures as well.

 

 

Looking forward to helping any way I can!

 

-Spy

[Phantom Marvel]

Discord

@Phrog #0001

 

Applicable skills

Three years with a Graphic Design firm utilizing Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop primarily.

I've done texture work for video games as back as The Sims and Unreal Tournament as a hobby.

I illustrate from home as my primary source of income these days.

 

Availability & time zone

I'm almost always available. I'm in EST and worst case scenario, I'll be available several evenings a week.

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects (the rest of the Adobe Lineup as well), Wacom tablets and Cintiq are my primary tools.

 

What you would be interested in working on

While I would settle for just helping where I can, I would absolutely love to touch up player costume textures, as well as create a slew of new patterns to use. I could provide concept art for new costumes, environments, characters, etc. Additionally, working on cleaning up some of the environmental textures, or simply bringing the world up to speed with the times by fixing signs, billboards, and business logos (even the logos used on their windows.) Also, some of our villain groups could use a little love with some minor texture updates as well.

 

Hope to hear from you guys soon!

- Phrog

[Rylas]

Your Discord tag: @Rylas #3735

 

Applicable skills: 16 years experience in 2D illustration and graphic design.

 

Availability & time zone: Some evenings and weekends could be available. Central.

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

 

What you would be interested in working on: If you need promotional layouts (I'm sure people would love to see promotionals for events) I'd be happy to offer what I can.

[TopHatRuss]

Hey guys!

 

Just absolutely loving the return to Paragon City and I'd love to contribute.

 

Discord tag - TophatRuss #4667

 

BFA in Drawing and painting - traditional 2D drawing, painting, illustration and design. Photoshop familiarity.

 

I prefer traditional techniques but I'm developing my digital skills, mainly with Photoshop.

 

I'm in Detroit, MI and my evenings and weekends are fairly open at the moment.

 

I'd love to work on character design, costumes, tech, weapons

 

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[CircularMoon]

Heya, - thankfully a dedicated thread for this. - As a long term player and supporter of CoH, Id love to help.

 

Your Discord tag:  Bowzi

Availability & time zone - GMT, available, however, and whenever

Tools and software that you are familiar with, This might be a long list.. - 3Dsmax, Maya, ZBrush, PhotoShop. Painter (any 3D program, and any Painting program basically)

What you would be interested in working on, Game assets, Chrs, improving textures to the game, improving elements/assets etc

 

With over 20 years experience in the game industry, and a few AAA titles to my credits with dozens of other games. - I can assure you of a high workmanship & quality, I have also had the pleasure to work on other very big MMOs (that I cant name here for NDA reasons), but would love to carry on the creativity, soul and effort into the streets of COH

 

Thanks : )

 

 

Although not advertised. - I also do Music/SFX for games too, this may be a great asset to the dev team also, as the owner of a fully fledged art/music commercial recording studio, we are good to go! : ) (orangetreestudios)

 

 

 

 

 

[Kuripi]

Kuripi

 

Applicable skills:

Able to create both 2D and 3D assets

Can create and modify textures

3DS Studio? Do you mean 3D Studio Max? I have a little familiarity with 3DS Max. Currently learning to use Blender.

My ability to create/modify VFX depends on the system being used. I have hand animated VFX sprites in a distant past for an isometric "Diablo-like" I was a traditional animator for a time back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and ate hapless mammals struggling to evolve

Discord is okay (I'm on the CoH Disco but have non-shared-Disco messages and invites shut off)

 

Availability & time zone:

Availability is currently flexible. In Pacific TZ

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with:

Rusty with 3DS Max, Maya, and Solidworks. (Currently learning Blender)

Constantly using an old but still relevant version of Photoshop and Illustrator

ProMotion (2D Sprite program - I've used this a bit on a professional level. Listing here just in case it might be of use)

Currently gearing up to learn Unity Engine (I have dabbled a little bit in the past. I have a smidge of C++ experience)

 

 

What you would be interested in working on:

General 2D/3D Art Assets - Maybe start with some environmental stuff. A tiling level set might be interesting to do eventually.

Maybe some writing, world building, game design

 

 

 

 

[Rylas]

Your Discord tag: @Rylas #3735

 

Applicable skills: 16 years experience in 2D illustration and graphic design.

 

Availability & time zone: Some evenings and weekends could be available. Central

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

 

What you would be interested in working on: If you need promotional layouts (I'm sure people would love to see promotionals for events) I'd be happy to offer what I can.

 

I should add that this goes for infographics as well. No doubt there's some great statistics since opening the servers that you might like to show the player base.

[Mortivore]

Discord: ₳₦ĐɎ#5245

 

Appliciable skills:

I studied Design and Illustration for 5 years, which also included a internship as a concept artist in a gaming company.

I'm experienced in Illustration, Concept Art and Graphic Design.

 

Availability:

My timezone is UTC.

Right now I'm working as a freelancer, so my availability depends on how many commissions I have to do.

 

Tools and software:

I'm familiar with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Procreate.

 

Interested in working on:

In City of Heroes I would be interessted to work on anything art and design related. For example Concept art for characters and environments.

I would also like to create icons and fine Art.

 

Hope to hear from you soon. 🙂

Edited April 5, 2022 by Mortivore

[titaniumwilly]

Discord: willym25 #5013

 

Applicable Skills: Over 20 year veteran in entertainment - 13 years in animation, 10+ in game development. Years of 2D concept and design both character and environment, some 3D hard surface modeling experience and presently a World architect for Warframe.

 

Availability: I have lots of spare time outside the 40 hour work week...perhaps too much lol but to be safe I'll say evenings and weekends are almost always open. You can contact me pretty much anytime within the north american time zones. I'm Eastern.

 

Tools and Software: Dev engine (presently proprietary Evolution engine but it's very similar to Unreal), photoshop, Max and Maya

 

Interested in working on: My strength is in concept and design but for CoH, the bread and butter is the character creation flexibility. I would love to help expand the library beyond it's already expansive sets. Even if there is something I'm not super great at, I have access to top industry people to help with all sorts of things including texture generation, rigging, you name it. I'd be willing to try and help where ever I can!

 

Cheers and thank you so much for bring this back!

[Scarclone]

(Sorry I posted submit earlier on accident I wasn't finished, now I am)

 

Discord Tag: BlindGaia#3121

 

Skills: - Been making music and getting paid from it by other artists for 4 years

          - Can make sounds from what my client describes

          - I can mix and master sounds (So that they're at the right volume levels. (not too loud or too low))

 

Availability: 20 hours a week at various times EST (due to scheduling it's kinda random but I can squeeze time easily.)

 

Tools I use: FL Studio 12-20, a little Studio One, and Audacity.

 

What I'd be interested in: While you haven't said you need any musical artists, I can provide with music just in case. I've also made some tracks that fit with the style of the game just for this occasion to show. These tracks are intended to be areas in certain parts of a zone (red, yellow, green), and are usually 20 - 45 seconds long. You can listen via attachments (actually you can't look at those, files are too big, I can email the slightly higher quality tracks if you don't like Soundcloud's lower quality) or Soundcloud links

 

Old school style track similar to how you'd hear in game (I had Independence Port in mind) : https://soundcloud.com/christopher-mason-156666154/coh-old-school

 

Newer style of track if you want this type of track (I had Fault line in mind): https://soundcloud.com/christopher-mason-156666154/coh-new-school-1

 

Safe zone type track I made, that would spark people's nostalgia for the game (Recommend attachment link for better quality): https://soundcloud.com/christopher-mason-156666154/safe-area

 

Also I admittedly have no experience in sound design for games per se, but I have experience with making sounds based on someone else's description. I feel like I should be able to do this within a couple of hours to a day.

 

Hopefully hear from you all soon!

[Log]

For the sake of completion, and so there's open communication.

 

    Your Discord tag

Log#7728

 

    Applicable skills (see below)

Professional artist, former game art dev, lead artist

Mostly 2D, know my way around 3D and animation

 

I've been working on CoH files for years (I25)

 

Availability & time zone

Australian Eastern Standard Time

Available to chat most of the time, happy to help and oversee, limited time to work on files

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with

Creative Cloud, 3D Max, Maya, zBrush, Pigg Viewers

What you would be interested in working on

I mostly did player and villain textures in the past and what I'm best at

[Frostweaver]

Umm... I am almost 50, retired military, with all the free time in the world.

 

Discord #5737

 

I have experienced with Blender (Out the Wazoo), 3ds max versions from 1998-2012, know how to do most shading both by hand and with about 60 different rendering/shadermap creation tools I have bought over the years. I am a semi-professional streaming artist, and work as a freelance artist with content in a number of indy titles, from Frayed Knights through Age of Decadence.

While I know the tools... zbrush, Maya, Rhino, 3ds, etc, I PREFER to do my work in Blender, simply because I know the program inside and out... I have several good private commercial converters to other formats.

 

I have been providing 3d Assets of various sorts since the release of the Original Quake, scads of avatars for quake 2 and 3, battle maps, texturing, and graphic packs and full mod packs for games without number. From Neverwinter nights to Vampire:The Masquerade redemption, from Minecraft texture packs to Freedom Force and Skyrim.

 

I kinda dropped it a couple of years ago to devote myself to semi-retired full time character art streaming, but I LOVE CoH and would happily provide costume assets with accompanied full release of IP... just for the chance to make the white  "Bandeau Top" NOT look like it was spraypainted without priming on a barbie doll.

 

If you ask me privately, I would be happy to provide links to my deviantart and turbosquid pages.

 

I friggin love this game.

[Nightsjester]

Discord: Nightsjester#7823

 

Applicable skills: Digital illustrator, texture artist, some 3d modeling

 

Availability & time zone: US pacific time, most days after 5pm

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with: Most Creative cloud products, Blender3d, SOME 3ds

 

What you would be interested in working on: Cleaning up/Improving existing character assets or working on new ones, 2d assets like badge art or promo art for events

[BenMannon]

Discord: CPTFrankHawks

 

Applicable skills: Writer, Table Top RPG Designer For kicks and story smith. Also a Relentless goofball.

 

Availability & time zone: Unfortunately I am only available on Fridays mountain time from about 10 am and on.

 

Tools and software that you are familiar wit: LibreOffice, pencil, pen and paper.

 

What you would be interested in working on: Well I have about a million ideas as far as the future story arch of CoH.

 

I am a hard worker and a fast learner but I do not know how to program.

[SneffetsAlt]

Alt#4121

 

Hi, I'm a UX/UI Design student. I've been working with User Experience and User Interface for over 1 year now.

 

I'd be glad to help with the player's interface design, how the main menu looks, creation feedback etc.

 

I'm available mostly during weekends and at night. My time zone is GMT-3.

 

I'm able to create 2D art and Graphics

 

I'm happy to use Discord to communicate with the rest of the team

 

Happy to help :)

 

 

 

 

[Neural]

Your Discord tag: Neural#9281

 

Applicable skills: Texturing, 3D modeling.

 

Availability & time zone: Pacific timezone, but am a night owl

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with:

Adobe Photoshop CC

Modo 902

Blender 2.79/2.8 (least experience with this software compared to others)

 

What you would be interested in working on:

Costume design, modification, iteration

 

critical point: I'm not a concept artist.  I do a lot better with moving something from a  completed conceptualization to a live product.

 

 

 

 

[TheHellcat]

Allo! Fresh meat reporting for duty!

 

 

Your Discord tag: Hellcat#0016

Applicable skills: texture art & 3d modeling (animated and non)

Availability & time zone:My schedule constantly changes but I am able to set appointments with a team and be punctual.

Tools and software that you are familiar with: 3ds max, painter, sketch up, maya, daz, blender, photoshop,

What you would be interested in working on:

I'd realllllly like to make some new faces/skins, and create some new skin/costume combos. Really happy to HD-up current textures and work on tedious projects like that.

I have a portfolio on request.

 

We're currently building a more technical and detailed list, but we're currently looking at people who:

☑ Are able to create 2D art and graphics

☑ Are able to create and modify textured 3D assets

☑ Are able to create and modify 3D animations

☑ Are familiar with 3DS Studio 2011

☑ Are able to create and modify Visual Effects (VFX)

☑ Are happy to use Discord to communicate with the rest of the team

[FrostyDelicious]

Been playing COH since 2004. I would love to help out from time to time

 

Discord: FrostyDelicious #2726

 

Experience: Visual Effects Artist for Motion Picture 5+ years

 

- Avengers End game

- Avengers Infinity Wars

- Mortal Engines

- Suicide Squad

- The Mummy

- Game of Thrones

 

Availability:

 

Couple hours a week

 

Time Zone:

 

New Zealand Standard Time

 

Tools & Software

 

- Maya

- sideFX Houdini

- 3Ds Max (been a while)

- Photoshop / Illustrator

- After Effects

 

[Heraclea]

I have fairly extensive with 2D art, much less with 3D.  Discord handle is Heraclea; I find the site hard to use and am there very seldom. I am disabled except for a weekly stint of 14 hoers of medical treatments. Eastern time zone, US.  Tools: mostly Photopaint 7, also Gimp. No formal training at all.

[ArtTeacher]

Your Discord tag: artteacher

Availability & time zone: until August 10, nearly every day. After, weekends

Tools and software that you are familiar with: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.

What you would be interested in working on: Textures

Applicable skills

Are able to create 2D art and graphics: Yes

Are happy to use Discord to communicate with the rest of the team: Yes

 

[artfuldodger]

Your Discord tag: silverhare #2913

 

Applicable skills (see below)

2D Graphics and Design

Storyboarding, page layout

Character design

 

Availability & time zone

Moderate Availability, Evenings and some weekends EST

 

Tools and software that you are familiar with

Traditional Marker, Pen, Pencil, Paint

Sculpture/Maquette with Sculpey

Photoshop, Illustrator

 

What you would be interested in working on

Primarily promotional art, character art, or comic pages.

[Bumblebee Seeds]

Discord tag - Bumblebee Seeds

 

Availability - Anytime.

 

Timezone - Central Standard Time.

 

Applicable Skills - 2D and 3D Texturing, Concept Art, User Interface Design, 3D Modeling, Web Design, Promotional Art. I can provide a portfolio of my past work.

 

Tools and Software - Photoshop, GIMP 2, Blender, Audacity

 

I'm interested in working on textures, 2D graphics, 3D Models, Animations, Icons, UIs and HUDs. Although my best work would be with UIs, HUDs, Menu Screens, Splash Screens, 2D Graphics and 3D Textures.

 

I am able to create and edit any type of image file.

 

I am able to create and edit 3D assets.

 

I am able to create 3D animations.

 

I have used 3DS Max in the past, about 4 - 5 years ago. I have since moved onto using Blender for 3D modeling and animating.

 

I am able to create and modify visual effects, although I have very little experience involving the subject.

 

I am happy to use Discord to communicate with team members.