CODEMASTERS

26,500 reference images to make one amazingly fun and real life video game course.

CODEMASTERS

26,500 references images to make one amazingly fun and real life video game course.

THE KILLERS

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REFERENCE PHOTO ASSN

DIRT 2 VIDEO GAMEPLAY

Oftentimes, deliverables come in the form of an uncompressed video file, an archive of high res images or layers upon layers of source files. This time, it was different.

Back in 2012, UK based Codemasters, one of the top gaming development firms in the industry contacted us about a reference photography project hands down was one of the more interesting and challenging projects we’ve ever done.

Our assignment, to document over 11 kilometers beautiful central Utah landscape for the new its new DiRT 2 rally video game. The deliverable, one perfectly organized directory containing over 26,400 raw images to be dropped into an Codemasters proprietary development engine. This workflow, allowed the development team to generate a full, 360 degree perspective of an entire game course in record time and in spectacular detail and accuracy.

“thanx for helping make one of my all time fave games, had no idea so much work went into making it, you sir are a hero”

JUSTIN // GAMING ENTHUSIAST, ERCA BLOG 08.24.13

It was a challenging two weeks of 110 degree weather, unexpected flash floods, and dusty lenses, but it turns out we DID do our job right. And the result – one spectacular rally game course that has undoubtedly been one of the highlights of this award winning game. Most importantly, after we received the game and my son finally made it to The Utah Trialblazer course, he gleefully squealed that it was undoubtedly his favorite course.