Yes My lord? More work?

I want Level / Game Design, Virtools Dev, World Modeling

I am not a wishy-washy pixel-shifting webdesigner, nor an interfacey web 2.0 fancy button typographic creative media designer. But a Junior Level/Game Designer with programming knowledge. I want to work on bloody damn good games and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum. You want the best? Here I am. And if you think I'm just pretending to be cool, you're wrong. Your mission is to hire me.

How? michael.heiml@gmail.com or neonxgenesis or (+43) 699 115 073 66.

Showreel

Done in 2009, showing recent project.

Asset Viewer

Windows only!

A quickly programmed Virtools app rendering recent modeling and texturing stuff. If theres' time, I'll implement some more models and cool shader stuff soon. Camera rotation with LMB + movement, Zoom with Mousewheel, Fullscreen with G. Rest is explained in viewer. Credits for SSAO shader code: swapmeet forum people.

Screenshots, Drawings, Photos

Rock, Paper, Scissors.. Pen, Camera - On my Command!

Some drawings and photos to give you an idea about my skills with .. drawing, color grading and tweaking brightness / shadows. I also added some sceenshots of recent projects (Games & Videos). For more detailed Info please scroll down.

Jungle Imperator

[Game] Virtools Lead Developer

2008/2009, a project for the ARS Electronica futurelab in Linz, Upper Austria. In cooperation with the London-based interactive arts group the Sancho Plan we developed an interactive music game for a HD stereoscopic environment called deepspace. My tasks as Virtools dev-lead focused on app programming, shader dev, VR/cluster setup and 3D content integration.

Stoked

[Game] Level Designer

2007 until 2009, Bongfish in Graz, Styria developed their nextgen AAA title Stoked for the XBox360. The highly anticipated game is all about real-physics backcountry freestyle snowboarding and was released on February 24th, 2009. My tasks during 2007 and 2008 focused on level design, concept art & content integration as well as minor game design & conceptual level editor development.

Stoked Ingame

[Game] Level Design

The whole mountain, from sculpting / shaping / modeling, conceptioning / placing assets & challenges, creating vegetation, setting up light & colors and managing asset / content integration, was done by me. Other mountains I worked on include Mt. Shuksan (Panoramae), Almmirante Nieto and Mt. Fuji (both half the thing). The clip is recorded by someone playing the game for Youtube.

Ratmania

[Game] Level/Game Designer, Lead Developer

2005 until 2007, I worked on Ratmania, a 3D Jump'N'Run game with film/CG video clips for the PC. Ratmania was part of my diploma thesis Ludo, ergo sum. The game was a big success upon it's release, with heaps of downloads, reviews on newspapers and game magazines as well as nominations on multimedia festivals (including Austrian National Prize & EUROPRIX 2008). My work focused on game design & development, project management, level design, production and screenplay (intro). Download Ratmania!

Papermint

[Game] Level Designer

2006, Avaloop built up their online social networking game Papermint. My tasks focused on building Papermints' worlds. Have a look at the short movie to get an idea of Papermint.

Quake 3 HTL

[Game] Level Design, Scripting

2003, I made a modification for Quake 3 Arena to chase after colleagues in my highschool HTL Vöcklabruck. Of course it was possible to decide which student or teacher you play. Contrary to expectations that might come into mind upon this setting, this was more a challenge for me whether I can build up my school, friends and teachers in 3D rather than something ideologically or morbidly driven.

Ratatak

[Animation] Production, Screenplay

Beside the development of Ratmania, we (by we, I refer to some 40 people that nerded together for months) created a 6 minute intro movie for the game, using both HD footage and CG (AND - real actors!). The story is all about two russian scientists who discover tiny alien artefacts and therefore believe that rats are an extraterrestrical lifeform, visiting earth just for one ultimate goal: To annihilate mankind and take over the blue marble.

But scientists wouldn't be (good or evil) scientists if they wouldn't take the opportunity to use some laboratory rats for mean artifact experiments, instead of warning citizens about the rising phantom menace. This is where you hop in to the rats mind and control it in the Jump'N'Run game Ratmania. The story continues to evolve throughout the games' parts, but we won't be nice if we reveal every story-twist right now, would we ;-) ?

Airstrike

[Animation] Screenplay, Modelling, Animation

2005, I worked on an animation short movie which is all about the struggles of life to build up relationships, hooked up on two airplanes chasing after each other. Airstrike was done during my studies in CG and was shown at some film festivals.

VISA Commercial

[Video] Camera, Script, Editing, Grading

2006, a concept for a VISA credit card commercial.

Brants

[Video] One-Man-Army show

2007, done in 36 hours using After Effects. Brants is a short motion graphics for the instant36 shortfilm festival, motto 'Turn the lines against the stream'.

Last Call for Thomas Pollok

[Video] Camera, Script, Editing, Grading

2005, lost guy on an airport, who cannot decide whether to fly or not. Won the instant36 shortfilm festival in 2005.

Mirrors

[Video] Camera, Editing, Grading

2006, a short movie about a lost guy and his struggles in life...

Spiel des Lebens

[Video] Script, Director, Editing

2004, a short movie about mankind standing in his own way.

Dial 000

[Video] Camera, Lighting

2006, a short movie, edited in-camera (rewind and action).

BASICS Medienfestival

[Video] Camera

2005, a documentation for the BASICS media festival.