Marie Lazar
Senior World Environment Artist
Rise of Azshara - World of Warcraft - Thermal Vents assets
The thermal vents biome evolved quite a bit over development, with Phil Zhang doing the initial concept painting for the area. My favorite assets from this biome are the tubeworms, which I rigged and animated in Blender before sending them to 3DS Max to set up with materials. I contributed the exterior lighting in this area and made many custom waterfalls to fill out our waterfall kit.
All of the stuff I personally made for the area. (except for the water shader and the textures on the waterfalls). Original blockouts for the vents were done by Phil Zhang.
The texturing on the thermal vents was done by blending three different tiling textures together via the vertex alpha.
