2002 FIFA World Cup
Lead Artist at Intelligent Games in charge of Star Player Heads.
Shown here are most of the heads I made for this title. (Many of the haircuts for these players were done by another artist).
Originally, we started hand painting the textures for the faces. This soon proved to be too laborious and simply not good enough to get to the level of quality that we were aiming for. I then devised a method of using photos in the texture maps without altering the existing UVW-mapping.
See heads with: hand painted textures + pictures of same players | final photorealistic textures (default) + pictures of same players | Bonus picture: Nakata, very large render

In addition to making these heads and overseeing up to four artists, I worked on player uniform textures and made designs for in-game player indication markers.

Not all of these heads appeared in the final game. Some were not used, and some appeared in FIFA 2003.


"2002 FIFA World Cup" © 2002 Electronic Arts Inc. Player names and likenesses used under license from The International Federation of Professional Footballers "(FIFPro)", national teams, clubs and/or leagues.
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