After 5 years at Zootfly I got hired by Ubisoft Montreal to work on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. I was in charge of designing Nassau, one of the three major cities in the game. Working on an AC title is a completely different beast. There are so many different metrics to respect. We have all that climbing, free-running, stealth… Putting together a level is like solving an intricate puzzle where at least 5 different aspects of game play and aesthetics must work together in an optimal way. I love it! ? After finishing Black Flag I moved on within the studio to start an unannounced project that I’m still working on today.

Project

It started last year during our vacation in Croatia. We were sailing along a coast, I noticed these interesting rock formations and I took out my camera and started taking pictures in regular intervals. I didn’t think I’ll be able to get anything useful from it because of the waves. I thought the whole thing was going to be too noisy and random for Photoscan. But it managed to do a pretty good job and I ended up with a solid foundation for some interesting shapes. I decided to try to capture the general feel of that coast, with these cliffs as a centerpiece.