Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
The Last Ronin

Project Description

Gritty video game adaptation of the 2020 comic book series.

What I did

Narrative Design

• Worked in interdisciplinary teams to craft missions that include requirements from multiple departments. Responsible for several missions.

• Diligently documented the mission flow and narrative ideas and kept them up to date.

• Worked closely with writers in Excel and Gridly to provide all necessary information for line requests, give feedback, and manage metadata.

Cinematics Design

• Worked closely with writers, artists, narrative and mission designers to create cutscenes that add to the story and fit into the mission flow.

• Coordinated teams for seamless communication and feedback.

• Drew thumbnails and storyboards from the scripts, oriented at the TMNT: The Last Ronin source material.

• Created previses from storyboards in the Unreal Engine 5 Sequencer.

• Assisted motion capture direction and coordinating with an external cutscene production studio.

Unfortunately, due to my NDA, I'm unable to show any of the internal documentation, storyboards, or previses I made.

What I learned

• The foundations of cinematography and cutscene production, from script discussion with writers to storyboarding and previses to mocap direction.

• I love expanding my skill set and developing a passion for things I never thought of before.

• Refined my knowledge and practices as a narrative designer in a feature team.