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Diversity in Gaming Panel
Hosted by UNC Charlotte’s Atkins Library and faculty from the College of Arts + Architecture and College of Computing and Informatics.This event was made possible with a grant from UNC Charlotte’s Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund. Invited Panelists: Latoya Peterson, Glow Up Games, CXO/Co-FounderTara Mustapha, Code Coven, CEO and FounderEve Crevoshay, Take This, Executive DirectorMark Barlet,…
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Guest Speaker: Ringling College of Art and Design
I was invited to speak to the Body Art and Culture class at Ringling College of Art and Design to discuss how to design diverse characters and accurately represent a culture without falling into the trap of appropriation. This was a journey into the processes our team developed as we designed the characters for the…
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Babur: The Orphan King
The founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur is most noted for his military prowess, stemming from the successes of his tactics as he defeated multiple opponents. What is not commonly known is that he was orphaned at a young age, and forced to grow up all too soon. Babur’s youth was controlled largely by the…
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More Naulakha!
I couldn’t resist rendering this little section out in a 360-viewable format.It literally took 20 minutes to render out each frame, but it’s wonderful to be able to save this progress in a way where you can pause the video and just use your mouse to “look around” the scene. Just think, once this is…
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Naulakha: Lahore Fort
Making this Fort is an ambitious project, especially since the buildings within span the tastes of four generations of Mughal Emperors. I don’t know what possessed me to try to make the Naulakha (or the Queen’s Pavillion). Maybe it’s because this is one of the smallest monuments in this Fort, or maybe because I had…
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Babur
The first of the Great Mughals, Babur was the orphan king who ascended to the throne as an 11-year old. In the decades that followed, he experienced great strife and turmoil, but his unbeatable spirit won the loyalties of armies and followers across Central and South Asia.
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Islamic Patterns
Despite not having concrete measurements to officially start builing elements of the Fort, I decided to go ahead and see if I could solve the (inevitable) issues of creating this monument before we get started. This has led me through quite a process! I build things, hate them and build again. I’ve had a similar…
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Lahore Fort: Getting Started
After a couple of months of just writing about the Lahore Fort Project, I finally decided to go back into 3D and try to make something! This was harder than I expected. There are a million components to everything, and literally every surface has some new and intricate pattern all over it!Even as I try…
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The Fort
The Mughal Empire holds a great significance in Pakistan, being the last Islamic Dynasty to rule this part of Asia before the British occupation in the 19th century. Unfortunately, much of what was created in this era was undermined as part of the British Divide and Rule policy, and this ridicule has been internalized and…
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Introducing… The Lahore Fort 2.0
“Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.”― Rachel Hauck, Once Upon a Prince After two decades of meandering through various art media and exploring a number of philosophical avenues, I seem to have come full circle back to a project that has suddenly evolved into a whole new animal. But before I…