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Contender Hudson Valley

I have worked with the Contender Esports center in the Hudson Valley for many years to create graphics for their Smash Brothers events.

Mid-Hudson Power Rankings

Mid-Hudson Season 11 Smash Brothers Power Rankings — Mid-Hudson Season 11 Super Smash Brothers Player "Power Rankings"

Mid-Hudson Season 10 Smash Brothers Power Rankings — Mid-Hudson Season 10 Super Smash Brothers Player "Power Rankings"

For these two projects I used a combination of 3D posing techniques and texturing in Blender, vector graphics in Illustrator, and compositing of the final design in Photoshop.

For the first step I'd import the models into blender and pose them how I'd like for each character, in the end it would look like this:

Blender Model example — Blender Model for Season 11 Power Ranking

For the next step I'd do any texturing, lighting, and editing of the model in order to produce the final 3D render to move into the next step, here is how those would turn out:

Ike 3D Render — 3D export from Blender of a Summer 2024 PR Character

3D export from Blender of a Winter 2024 PR Character

From there I bring the renders into Illustrator to create the unique style of each power ranking, here is what it looks like:

Ike Illustrator Render — Illustrator export for a character from the Summer 2024 PR

Ken Illustrator Render — Illustrator export for a character from the Winter 2024 PR

And in the end once I've completed that process with every player I put them all together in Photoshop to create one big graphic!

And additionally for Season 11 I made these glossy prints to give out to each player that earned a spot on the rankings!

Power Ranking Print Photoshop Render — Final Render of a Print for the Season 11 Power Rankings

Physical Print for Season 11 Rankings — Physical Print for the Season 11 Power Rankings