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Work Experience:
2011 - Present: Certain Affinity
Senior Concept Artist for an unannounced title
- Created concept art for various environments, machinery, buildings, tech, etc.
2010 - 2011: Red Fly Studio
Senior Concept Artist for an unannounced title
- Created concept art for various environments, worlds, machinery, vehicles, robots, etc.
2009 - 2010: Vigil Games
Senior Concept Artist on "Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium Online" (massively multiplayer online role-playing game)
- Created concept art establishing the look of various elements in the game such as environments, vehicles and machinery.
2006 - 2009: Smart Bomb Interactive
Art Director on "Snoopy Flying Ace" (air combat game for XBox 360)
- Created extensive concept art establishing the overall look and visual style of the game.
- Oversaw the development of all game assets.
- Devised several new methods for creating normal, relief and parallax maps that were simpler, faster and more dynamic than previous methods.
- Developed the original idea and created concept art for the vehicles, characters and the overall style of the game.
- Oversaw the accurate and timely creation of 3D models by the modeling team.
- Worked closely with the programmers fully to develop the design and gameplay.
- Created concept art for vehicles, buildings, environments and characters.
- Responsible for developing the texture style of game, which received many positive reviews.
- Developed new game ideas with original artwork to inspire the look and feel.
- Wrote several game design documents.
- Taught classes for the art team covering many applicable aspects of game art such as concepting, texture painting and methods for creating normal and relief maps from scratch.
2004 - 2005: Omation
Texture Artist on "The Barnyard" (3D animated feature film)
- Painted textures and worked with shaders and UVs for characters and environments.
- Textured main characters Dag the Coyote and Mr. & Mrs. Beady, as well as several supporting characters.
- Responsible for texture work on many of the more detailed rusted and distressed vehicles in the movie.
2002 - 2004: Crystal Dynamics
Concept Artist on "Tomb Raider: Legend" (platform game for PS2, PSP, PC, XBox and XBox 360)
Game Artist on "Whiplash" (platform game for PS2 and XBox)
- Responsible for environmental concept art, environment modeling, texture painting, and environmental animation.
2000 - 2002: Blizzard Entertainment
3D Artist on "World of Warcraft" (massively multiplayer online role-playing game)
- Responsible for creation of concept art, construction of 3D models and painting texture maps.
1999 - 2000: Netter Digital Entertainment
Computer Animator on "Dan Dare" (3D animated science fiction series)
- Animated 200+ finished shots on a demanding schedule.
- Created combinations of spacecraft shots, explosion and special effects shots, but most notably character-heavy shots.
- Responsible for modeling various 3D objects.
1995 - 1999: Walt Disney Company
Character Artist
- Created drawings for Disney standard character products (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, etc).
- Worked on concepts for "Disney's Dinosaur" product ideas and drawings for Dinosaur-related products.
- Conceptualized product designs and ideas for other product lines.
Applicable Skills:
- Drawing: interior & exterior environments, characters, vehicles & other objects from imagination.
- Photoshop: digital painting and advanced image editing.
- Texturing: diffuse texture map and normal map painting from scratch in Photoshop, or in ZBrush & CrazyBump. Ability to create relief maps or parallax maps.
- UV Mapping and shader network construction.
- 3D Modeling: characters, game environments, mechanical objects and organic objects, both high and low poly.
- 3D Character Animation.
- Pixel Art: sprite creation and animation of characters and environments for 2D games.
- Software: Fluent in Photoshop, Painter, Maya, 3DS Max, Softimage, Lightwave, ZBrush, Mudbox & CrazyBump.
References:
- Available upon request.
