Forza Horizon 5 - Hero Buildings and Landmarks
For Forza Horizon 5 I managed the Assets & Outsourcing Team which is part of the Environment Art Team at Playground Games. I am responsible for the creation and visual quality of the any man-made assets in the environment which are not the roads, including Buildings, Props and much more.
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My responsibilities included: managing the internal Assets Team Artists and their schedule, developing and guiding workflows for assets creation and ensuring the highest quality for all assets. I also managed the work that we sent to the Outsource Partners and supported them throughout production to realise the vision of the Art Directors and Environment Art Lead.
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Within this post is a collection of the work that I was responsible for and contributed to. Below are the members of my team and OS partners during the project. As with anything this project was highly collaborative with lots of support in many areas so thanks to all who worked on FH5!
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Outsource Partners
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https://en.arts-united.com/
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https://www.artstation.com/elite3d
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https://www.glassegg.com/portfolio/
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Playground Games Assets Team
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https://www.artstation.com/marine_a
https://www.artstation.com/harrybiggs
https://www.artstation.com/nathandoye
https://www.artstation.com/dangreenway
https://www.artstation.com/ajarvis
https://www.artstation.com/taurask
https://www.artstation.com/mikegneo
Large portions of the temple sites were made in a modular fashion. This took a lot of planning from concept and my team. elite3D made a lot of these pieces with our guidance which we then polished internally, adding a triplanar projection to add variety.
Some real-life landmark buildings were also used at the temple sites.
When combined with the work that the lighting team did, the hero buildings really come to life.
Some very creative and impressive composition made the work that my team had done on the modular temple pieces look even better.
The airstrip is a memorable location which was made from modular hangar pieces as well as a number or plane pieces which were repurposed by my team and outsource partners.
The many festival sites which we had this game, along with the race assets had many different colours and styles. My team did a great job and a special shoutout to Maya Higdon did a lot of work in getting the festivals work work well.
We applied a special amount of polish to the basilica in Guanajuato for the trailer and because of it's importance in the game as a landmark.
The Guanajuato University is probably the biggest real-life building that we have made in a Horizon game.
These decorative church facades took some real planning from my team and they turned out so much better than we could have hoped.
The level of detail which we achieved with careful planning and skilled work by our Outsource and internal artists was fantastic.
Representing the diversity of Mexico has been a genuine pleasure.
The Barn-Find returns and we had such a fantastic head start with this thanks to the fantastic concept work from Vaigintas Pakenis.
Different seasons sometimes present new surprises!
