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Boali Dashtestani

Art Direction / Game Art / Technical Art

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3D & VFX

MLB HRDVR

My senior technical artist work on MLB Home Run Derby VR included bat materials, texture development and visual effects. These studies and development captures show the assets, surface treatments and effect variations in context.

Reward-bat materials

Bronze, silver and gold finishes, ornamental detail and a normal-map breakdown.

Three diagonal baseball bats with bronze, silver and gold surfaces, raised stars, leaf bands and helmet emblems.
Reward-bat material variantsAn angled view of bronze, silver and gold reward-bat finishes.
Three upright ornate baseball bats with bronze, gold and silver finishes, star motifs and helmet emblems.
Bronze, gold and silver reward batsThree metallic finishes share an engraved reward-bat design.
Close view across silver and gold bat handles and barrels, with diagonal grip grooves and raised leaf bands.
Metallic surface detailClose views of the ribbed panels, engraved bands and contrasting metal finishes.
Bronze and gold bat grips with diagonal grooves and bright metallic decorative bands.
Grip and band detailA closer look at the patterned grip and decorative bands.
A bronze baseball bat with a raised star, helmet emblem and decorative leaves on its barrel.
Bronze reward-bat studyA bronze finish study showing the star, helmet emblem and leaf ornament.
Close-up of a bronze bat barrel with a helmet relief, ribbed panel, star and leaf decoration.
Helmet and relief detailA close view of the embossed helmet and star decoration.
Purple normal map showing the bat skin layout with a helmet, stars, leaf bands and fine grooves.
Reward-bat normal mapA normal-map breakdown of the engraved bat design.
Development captureA development walkthrough of metallic bat finishes and their texture breakdown.
Development captureA gold reward-bat finish viewed in the stadium during development.

Bat skin texture sheets

UV layouts for the cake, camouflage, pancake, soda-bottle and candy bat designs.

A square texture sheet with wood and grip sections, red and blue cake layers, icing and a small baseball logo.
Cake bat texture sheetA UV texture layout for a colorful cake-inspired bat skin.
A square bat texture sheet with wood, black grip strips and a tan, brown and cream pixel camouflage pattern.
Digital desert camouflage texture sheetA UV texture layout with a digital desert camouflage pattern.
A square bat texture sheet with pancake end caps, syrup-covered pancake layers, wood and dark grip strips.
Pancake stack texture sheetA UV texture layout for a pancake-inspired bat skin.
A square bat texture sheet with a metal bottle cap, red bottle surface, a Pop Cola label and dark grip strips.
Pop bottle texture sheetA UV texture layout for a red soda-bottle bat skin.
A square bat texture sheet with pink, cyan and white candy swirls, diagonal stripes, wood and dark grip strips.
Candy slice texture sheetA UV texture layout for a bright striped candy bat skin.

Bat effect progression

Color, energy and intensity studies, followed by development captures in the stadium.

Six baseball bats with progressively stronger blue, gold, orange and purple energy effects on black.
Bat VFX concept lineup exploring six upgrade levels
Development captureAnimated bat-effect progression across six energy levels.
Development captureClose-up blue and gold bat-energy variants.
Development captureIcy bat effect tested in the stadium.
Development captureSpectral bat effect in gameplay context.

Ball effects & trails

Ball-energy variants, projectile trails and gameplay-context tests.

Development captureBall-trail progression study with six color and intensity levels.
Development captureSix ball-energy effects, from cool blue glows to a bright magenta burst.
Development captureBall VFX shown in VR batting gameplay.
Development captureBat and ball trails in a VR match capture.
Development captureBall-trail and hit effects in a stadium gameplay capture.

Trophy materials

Metallic and bright finish variations explored in the lobby display.

A trophy above a gold challenge plaque, surrounded by vertical illuminated panels.
Trophy display studyA trophy and challenge plaque presented in an illuminated display.
Development captureA development view of bronze, silver, gold and blue trophy finishes in the baseball lobby.
Development captureA development view comparing metallic and bright color variants in the lobby display.