I am a freelance 3d artist , currently located in Leyton, East London.

On this website you can see a selection of work I have created over the last 7  years.

I am always on the look out for contract work opportunities

contact  freelance@mikerusby.com or mikrusby68@yahoo.co.uk  or  tel +44 07707230125

NB I am only taking paid contract work

Work History  Blitz Games, Swordfish Studios,Frontier Developments, Monumental Games

Education  BA Hons Scientfiic Ilustration, HND Natural History Illustration

Freelance work : RealTime Worlds( APB ) MonumentalGames, Outerlight Games,EA(Armature)
Splash Damage, Redshark TV,Nexus Productions, Slide, Pipedreams 3d, Sugar Hill TV, wayforward technologies, Keyframe Studios, Outso







Jake from' LIT'
- freelance work for wayforward technologies

Mr Security Guard WIP - 2012

 

Armature Studios - Female base mesh - 2 weeks - (Zbrush, low polymodel+textures)

 

Monumental Games/Capcom - MOTO GP Rider




Bruce Willis WIP ( My current project)





amunet



Leonius



Iltani

Darius


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Assassins Creed 2 Statues - Slide London

I produced 4 zbrush friendly base meshes and 1 zbrush statue( darius)

check out some of the staues in this vid, at around 7.00 you will see some of the meshes I produced above








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The Ship - World Leaders Pack - in game foootage.
I did Saddam, Bin laden, Fidel castro and Margaret Thatcher. Saddam appears at 0.41 and the others near the end.
Each character took 5 days including 3 lods, skin weighting and texturing






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Not sure how much the character I made was altered after the fact, but I am guessing it appeared in this video above
Mine was the prototype and generally stuff is always altered anyway to fit tech specifications. Done as contract
work in 10 working days, including zbrush, textures, lods and skin weighting




Slide London - zbrush +polypaint - contract work

 




Unannounced FPS Project 2005/6 - Swordfish Games



Simple Lifeforms - proof of concept 2010



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Coke Avatar advert for Nexus - Worked on several characters including the barbarian, cute owl, princess, taxi robot, and superhero
on steps. Credited as a Texture artist and modeller




original version of taxi robot



low poly version of the princess which was later remodelled at a higher res

cute owl at the end of the advert which was later recoloured to brown





Soul calibur 5 Trailer - Contract work for keyframe Studios

Worked on the materials/rendering of the shiny swords and the rusty sword zbrushing/textures