John Zwicker is a former Blizzard employee who served as a 3D modeller on the Team 5 Hearthstone development team.[1] He is featured in the credits card of the same name.
In June 2019, John Zwicker left Blizzard and joined Second Dinner.[2]
Credits card[]
Notes[]
- Battlefields
- Zwicker is involved in the creation of the game's battlefields. Zwicker creates 3D models, and maps textures created by Ben Thompson and Jomaro Kindred onto them, producing the battlefields seen in the game.[3][4]
- Zwicker is also responsible for the battlefields' interactive bonus features, or "easter eggs", with the help of Becca Abel and Kyle Harrison[5][6]
- For more information on the battlefield creation process, see Zwicker's July 2015 reddit posts.
- Other work
- Zwicker creates many of the game's spell effects.[7]
- Together with Jomaro Kindred he created the card pack opening for the Goblins vs Gnomes card packs.[9]
Quotes[]
- "I get the board from the 2d artist as a finished painting. Then I throw it in Maya and start to lay down basic shapes and project UV's from the games camera angle and then bring that into Unity.
- Then, corner by corner, I flush out the details and export again to Unity checking perspective issues and clipping and such. It usually takes me about 4-5 days just for the board itself. Then I get a week or so to do all the clickables, effects and animations."[10]
Gallery[]
Credits card artwork
References[]
- ↑ 2014-12-06. (Ben Thompson Hearthstone: Goblins vs. Gnomes Interview (BlizzCon 2014)).
- ↑ John Zwicker on LinkedIn. (2023-08-12).
- ↑ John Zwicker on Twitter. (2013-12-14).
- ↑ John Zwicker on reddit. (2015-07-19).
- ↑ John Zwicker on reddit. (2015-07-19).
- ↑ John Zwicker on Twitter. (2013-12-15).
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2014-03-25).
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2013-12-15).
- ↑ Live on The Angry Chicken, 2015-03-23
- ↑ John Zwicker on reddit. (2015-07-19).