About
Hi, I’m Bryn Alban and I have been a CGi Artist for 8 years. I started out in 2002 by learning how to create 3d meshes in a modelling program called zModeller during my spare time whilst studying Automotive Engineering Design at Coventry University. Having graduated from Coventry University in 2004 with a BEng Hons. degree I ventured into the world of commercial game art with SimBin Development team where I worked on GTR: FIA GT Racing Game.
A few years later and the core SimBin Development Team formed a new company called Blimey! Games which went on to produce GT Legends and GTR2. Blimey! Games went into administration and from its ashes grew Slightly Mad Studios a development team that would go on to create the critically acclaimed Need for Speed : Shift and more recently Shift2 Unleashed. Throughout my time at Blimey! Games and Slightly Mad Studios I had the opportunity to hone and develop my artistic skill set to become an accomplished 2d and 3d vehicle artist.
Around the time GT Legends was being developed I found my urge for my own performance car growing day by day. I took the plunge and bought a 1991 Nissan Skyline R32 GTR. This is where my love affair with the model began. I soon found myself with two more and completely engrossed in a, new at the time in the UK, sport called drifting. The excitement, sound and smells were second to none.
My involvement in the drift ‘scene’ grew and grew and I found myself going to more and more events and getting more and more hooked. I built cars for it, spent hours researching it and watched countless videos of drifting, before too long I found myself in the drivers seat and enjoying the sport first hand.
As a bi-product of my involvement in the drift scene and my artistic skills I soon became known for designing graphics for drift cars and created a few liveries which made their way onto various drift cars in the UK. Further to this I became involved in some JDM Allstars promotion artwork by creating visualisations of the inaugural Wembley Stadium event in 2008.