Project Overview

Cao Bang is a lush jungle-and-karst map for World of Tanks: Modern Armor, inspired by the dramatic limestone highlands of northeastern Vietnam. The map features dense tropical vegetation, winding rivers, historic villages, and towering karst formations that funnel tank engagements through natural chokepoints and offer layered cover for both aggressive pushes and defensive holds.

Role

As Senior Environment Artist on Cao Bang, I contributed to look development, lighting, optimization, map loading screen and minimap design, terrain sculpting, foliage placement, and set dressing across the map. My work focused on capturing the distinctive tropical highland character of northern Vietnam while maintaining the gameplay readability and performance targets required for competitive multiplayer at scale.

Key Contributions

• Owned cross-play environment visual development on Cao Bang for World of Tanks: Modern Armor — from initial block-out through shipped map
• Led conversion of World of Tanks PC maps to Xbox 360 and Xbox HD-capable console builds, adapting fidelity and asset budgets to each hardware target
• Produced environment assets, foliage, terrain, animations, lighting, and UI for the map end-to-end
• Managed environment deliverables against release milestones for the World of Tanks: Modern Armor live service
• Optimized environments to fit the memory footprint of current-and-last-gen consoles via level streaming and per-hardware asset allocation