Welcome to Ian Brenneman's treefish.net!

Hello & thank you for stopping by! I'm a realtime visual effects artist with nearly 15 years of professional experience working in the games industry. During that time, I've had the pleasure of working on Digital Extremes' third-person-shooter, Warframe & several titles in Square Enix's Final Fantasy series!

Below on this page you can see my Digital Extremes production reel as well as my Square Enix production reel. You can also peruse my resume on the site and skip over to my tumblr to see some 3D experiments & personal and professional 2D work.

A bit more about what drives me, I've been an avid gamer from a young age. Starting out on the apple IIe my mother brought home from her classroom during summer breaks, then upgrading to the NES & later SNES. As an effects artist, I've always loved the mix of techinical and artistic knowledge required by the craft. As a passonate learner, I find great satisfaction in exploring new techniques & getting familiar with new (and often strange) software that can help me work more efficiently. Furthermore, as a longtime sci-fi fan of media like Empire Strikes Back & Doctor Who, I feel most at home making effects for often far off worlds!

This reel showcases some of the effects work I've done for Digital Extremes' third-person-shooter, Warframe. As the team has been small (read: 2) for the majority of the time I was with the company I've had the privilege of creating a large variety of effects for the game, including enemy, character & environmental!

For a more thorough breakdown of this reel, click here. Otherwise, here are a few notes about it:

• For the second shot of the "ship" crashing into tower, I created, placed & setup the effects in the scene but cannot take credit for the cool animation of the large falling debris chunks. An animator was tasked with that!
  
• Same with the giant skybox worms in the two shots prior to the concluding scene. I didn't animate those but all other necessary effects, post-process scripting, etc. I took care of!

This is my other production reel from my time at Square Enix. It contains effects I created for the three Final Fantasy titles I worked during my time in Tokyo. It was an amazing place to "get my feet" wet in the world of game effects to be sure!

Thanks again for your interest! Feel free to drop a line to me at ianbrenneman@hotmail.com if you feel so inclined!