VALORANT - Sunset Defender Vista
We recently released our new map for Valorant that is based in and inspired by Los Angeles. This was the first map that I was part of the entire production cycle from start to finish and was I able to help with a lot of the vista areas. During the entire production I focused a lot on the Defender Spawn vista which would also be a big part in marketing and trailers leading up to the Valorant champions final that took place in 2023. Having a recreation of what's in the cinematics in game has been a real fun challenge and took a lot of iterations to get right. Thanks to Kevin Brunt who was the map lead for the entire map and my leads Brian Yam and George Sokol who helped me a lot with the design of the sinkhole and facility and the many changes that we did to the vista and the many requests from marketing.
Valeria Yang was the VFX artist who took the entire vista to the next level with her amazing VFX work. This would just be a boring sinkhole without it.
And then the team who kills it everyday:
https://www.artstation.com/bdyammer
https://www.artstation.com/delyanfarashev
https://www.artstation.com/lurcis
https://www.artstation.com/perilinear
https://www.artstation.com/introoutro
https://www.artstation.com/michaelshinde
https://www.artstation.com/wwsketch
https://www.artstation.com/droodesigns
https://www.artstation.com/mehulsahai
https://www.artstation.com/bruno
https://www.artstation.com/valeriayang
https://www.artstation.com/sirdigitalbacon
https://www.artstation.com/leem3d
This is probably the biggest vista we made for the game yet and the scale of the map is huge.
Top view of the Sinkhole, the amazing VFX are by Valeria Yang
Making of, created all vista geo including Sinkhole and Facility and dressing up the area.
View of the vista you get from spawning into the map in Defender Spawn. Without Valeria Yang this area would look half as cool as her VFX really did the heavy lifting in the entire area!
closer view of the facility featuring Valeria's VFX for the destroyed part of the building.
A great view of the cool VFX and material that Valeria Yang created to fill the sinkhole.
All vfx by Valeria Yang, Ring structure in sinkhole is a modified mesh from another map.
I've sculpted the individual asphalt pieces to fit around the sinkhole that I also deformed and detailed in ZBrush.
Overeview of the entire map, the team did such a great job creating this place.
View from attacker spawn. (I only worked on the defender spawn vista but it's a nice shot and gives a good idea about the scale of the whiole facility)
Map Trailer
Sunset Cinematic Trailer