About

Real-time environments, creative technology and digital delivery.

Portrait

  • Tier 1
  • one hour

A real photograph, shot properly.

I am a real-time environment and lighting artist working in Unreal Engine 5, with design and delivery either side of it. I assemble, light and compose scenes. I direct concept art across original IP. I have designed, built and shipped three production websites, and I still host them. Running my own studio has meant owning every stage, from first sketch through to live, rather than one slice of it.

  • Open to work
  • Tapitallee NSW
  • Remote / Hybrid
  • AEST

Method

Written per discipline, because they are not the same and one statement covering all of them would be inaccurate about each.

Real-time

Built in Unreal Engine 5 using licensed marketplace and library assets from KitBash3D, Leartes Studios, Brushify and Quixel Megascans. What I do is the scene assembly, lighting, camera, set dressing, composition and grade. I do not model the assets.

Concept

Leonardo does the exploration and thumbnails, always under image guidance from licensed photo reference, my own renders or my own sketches. Never a text prompt on its own. Every final plate is then painted over and photobashed by hand in Photoshop. The design calls are mine.

Hand drawn

The Task Force 5-1 character and its unit insignia were drawn by hand from start to finish, with no generative AI at all. The direction, the design and the final art are all mine.

Web

Design, build, deployment and hosting in React and Next.js on Vercel. Three live production sites for three separate businesses, all of which I still maintain. This site is one of them.

Capability

Real-time. Unreal Engine 5 scene assembly, lighting, camera, composition and final grade.

Design. Concept art, art direction, environment design, brand and logo systems, graphic design.

Build. AI-assisted web design and delivery in React and Next.js, deployment and hosting.

AI workflow. AI-directed development, prompt engineering, generative image work, workflow design.

  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Adobe CC
  • Affinity
  • Substance
  • Figma
  • React / Next.js
  • Vercel

The studio

I run Black Dingo Studios, an IP development and digital design studio. I own visual direction on original titles in development across character, environment, faction and brand design, and I direct AI tooling to ship production software. Three live React and Next.js sites for three separate businesses, all hosted on Vercel.

Black Dingo Studios

Pipeline

Pipeline literacy

Perforce and Git, review workflow, and how notes are taken and acted on — stated as fact rather than claimed.

The farm and Sheepdog Co.

One paragraph on the farm and the working dogs. A real biographical difference in a field of near-identical portfolios.