The Bubble Set and The Blowout are cosmetic items made for the Pyro in Team Fortress 2. I designed The Bubble Set to match the growing trend of framing the Pyro as a sillier character in terms of cosmetic style.
My major takeaway from these projects: understanding the necessary pipeline order of steps to create a finished cosmetic. Modeling, UV unwrapping, rigging and skinning were the main steps in process and the order in which I did them, respectively. There were a few times where I had to step backwards in the process, finding out that adjusting the base model would require me to skin and UV unwrap the object again due to these adjustments.
A Valve employee commented on The Magic Wand to ask if the bubble wand had a particle effect to go along with it. In response, I created the particle effect animation (see below). However, the wand was ultimately not added to the game.
Software: 3ds Max, Photoshop
Three bubble bottles made to replace the incendiary grenades normally seen on the Pyro.
A bubble want taped to the head of the Pyro as "hat". Makes use of jiggles bones for both the bubble itself and the wand to bounce around as the Pyro moves.
Particle effect that accompanies the cosmetic.
The full set worn by a Pyro as well as The Blowout's viewmodel.
Ambient occlussion rendering of The Blowout.
Preview image made for the Steam Workshop.
The Blowout by itself, rendered in Source SDK.
