Brian Hettrick
Welcome to Brian Hettrick's personal portfolio.
This site is under construction as of April 2, 2008.
Portfolio | 3D Animation
2008 - A Maya animation of running popcorn.
2008 - A short demo of a coffee sack animated in Maya.
2008 - A Rube Goldberg machine created and animated in Maya.
Portfolio | Digital Art
Portfolio | Interactive Media & Game Design


A Series of Tubes (2007) was a project done for a 3D game design course. The team consisted of 2 technical students and 2 art students (including myself), and the game was designed using the C4 Engine. I utilized the C4 portal system to connect chutes and ladders to the other rooms. Using Maya, I created all of the models and levels that are used in the game, as well as the music and many of the textures. The game can be downloaded here (requires high-end graphics card).


Empire (2005) was a project for an introductory game development course. The game was designed in Game Maker, and I worked in partnership with another student. The game features all-original music and sound effects, which I created using Acid and Midi Maker. The game is available via download here.
Portfolio | Electrical Engineering
Portfolio | Web Design
JaponicaFC.com is the official website for my soccer team in Tokyo, Japan. It originated in the spring of 2007 and has been actively competing with other club teams since the summer of 2007. I created the website from scratch, including the artwork. The website utilizes PHP by dynamically loading data and images via custom code.
With over 20 million image views and 340,000 page views since 2006, MySpaceNinja.com has been one of my most successful projects. This site includes custom graphics and tools that are aimed to enhance MySpace profiles. The site's user-friendly interface allows anyone to embed my graphics into personal pages.
Portfolio | Video Production
2006 - A Machinima (machine animated cinema) production done in Second Life, in a four-person group. (video not yet available)
2006 - Another Machinima production done in the same group as above. (video not yet available)
2005 - A music video I created using clips from live shows and home video footage. Edited in Final Cut. (video not yet available)
2008 - A demonstration of how objects are identified by different falling patterns. (video not yet available)