Scott Foust

Background

I've been making games since 1995, and today I'm a technical designer. Along the way I've worked as an animator, modeler, technical artist, tools programmer, and gameplay programmer, but building gameplay prototypes and iterating quickly on an idea has always been my happy place. Early in my career, every game engine was proprietary; since 2010, every project I've worked on has used Unity or Unreal. My roots are in coding and 3D art, which is probably why I've always been drawn to the technical side of making images and interactive experiences.

• Now

  Technical Designer, E-Line Media

  Working on Endstar, a game-creation platform being built with Endless Studios. Still in development.

• Since 1995

  Technical Artist, Animator & Programmer

  Stormfront Studios, Perpetual Entertainment, Secret Level/SEGA, ASU and E-Line Media. Games from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to The Two Towers and Iron Man 2.

  All games Demo reel

• 2000

  Art Institute of California, San Francisco

  Part-time drawing classes. A few of those pieces are in the drawings below.

Interests

Endeavors

Selected prototypes and experiments. The original web builds used the long-retired Unity Web Player, so videos are linked where available.

2015

Endless Curvy Road

A procedural terrain prototype that generates an endless road from noise and a 3D tile set.

2014

Behaviour Modification

Two prototypes of interactive game elements meant to change player behavior in the real world, focused on graffiti.

2013 Live Demo →

Teacher Stress Exercise

A game that simulates the stress of a student-teacher conference for pre-service teachers. Answer every student while keeping control of the classroom.

2011

Simple Skater

An experiment with Unity's ragdoll system, driven by buttons in the web page around the game.

2006

Genetic Animation

An evolutionary system for walk cycles. Ten bots with random movements learn to walk over generations of beneficial mutations.

2005

Ray Tracer

Written from the ground up, with OpenGL used only for display. Textures, reflections, anti-aliasing, area lights and shadows, and depth of field.

2005

RenderMan Shaders

SLIM shaders for car paint and shadows, lit with HDR lighting captured on location with a light probe.

2001

Low Poly Models

Organic and hard-surface models for video games.

Drawings

A few pieces I drew in 2000 while taking part-time classes at the Art Institute of California in San Francisco.