Perhaps just a general concept projects ?
I myself have some weapon concepts I could add.

No problem, I can do that too.

Yea i have been working on environmental areas too so i can get portfolio work done. Since this is gonna be a UT3 mod, can't i model a map in max? :D I would like to do that :)

I read through some helpful tutorials on shaders, so understanding how they work now still doesn't help too much, its been a few long looong years since my C++ programming courses lol.

But yea, interesting read, with per-object shaders the cell effect can be created on models and players quite easily, also some post-process shaders can be quite useful. Parallax Mapping on textures for example - give it that UT3 Feeling and detail without the extra polys :D Along with any other visual effects, damage, explosions reflected on players view and so on.

Nice find,
maybe we can watch the development of it, if it turns out alright we could send a formal email to him about using the code in the mod.