Environment Art for Games: The Outer Worlds 2

Tony Tang is a Gnomon alum and environment artist who’s been working in games for over a dozen years. He spent seven years at Riot Games from 2015–2022 working on various projects from R&D to League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. Between 2023-2025, Tony spent two years at Obsidian Entertainment as Senior Lead Environment Artist working on The Outer Worlds 2. For the past 6 months, he’s been working as a Principal Environment Artist on the Riot MMO at Riot Games.

David Jaikla Chan is a Lead Environment Artist at Obsidian Entertainment and previously worked at High Moon Studios on Call of Duty: Warzone. With a background in engineering, he discovered 3D modeling as a hobby and successfully turned his passion into a full-time career.

Rain Supple joined Obsidian Entertainment in 2022 as an Assistant World Builder on The Outer Worlds 2. She is currently working as an Environment Artist on TOW2 DLC project. An Alumni hailing from Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, she enjoys bringing environments to life with compelling visual storytelling. In her free time, she enjoys video games, photography and D&D.

Laela Russell is a 3D Environment Artist with a passion for creating fantastical 3D worlds. She studied game art at Ringling College. From there, she got an internship at Obsidian Entertainment where she has been working ever since as an Associate Environment Artist.

Max Goeltner is a LCAD alumni and environment artist with nearly three years of industry experience. He is currently at Obsidian Entertainment, where he spent about two years contributing to The Outer Worlds 2. Max specializes in building points of interest and levels for games, focusing on blending storytelling and functionality within environmental art.

Ilia is a tech-oriented environment artist, currently working on an unannounced title at Obsidian. Previously he worked on projects at Frost Giant and Postcard Game Studios.