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Fully Remote, Us

Principal environment artist on an unannounced project. Lead creation of environment art and kit/palette art for the game, working extensively in UE5. Tackled a wide array of art creation tasks and specialized in hard surface and subd modeling. As the principal environment artist, established the standards for environment art quality, pipelines, and workflows internally. Also helped establish visual targets, art direction, and level design for game levels. Trained and mentored environment artists in up-to-date tools and processes. Worked collaboratively with level designers, art direction, environment artists and gameplay leads to build out game levels from white box to final, ship-quality art. Created a library of AAA-quality materials for the environment art team, and developed various material creation utilities in Substance Designer and Painter to speed up asset creation and surfacing.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Senior environment artist on an unannounced AAA PC/Console game focusing on modular palette development, hard surface modeling, and look dev. Helped train and onboard junior artists on Fortnite through feedback and creation of custom tutorials and documentation. Utilized an array of tools and skills like Maya, Zbrush, Unreal Engine 5, Substance Painter and Substance Designer for standing up environments together with the stellar environment team at Final Strike Games.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Environment artist on unannounced AAA PC/Console game. Previously 3D artist on Fortnite seasonal art content contributing high quality and highly optimized environment props in Epic Games' Unreal 5 editor. Utilized Epic Games' standard-setting practices for high poly modeling, normal map baking, and texturing work flows to make high quality 3D art while using tools such as Substance Painter, Zbrush, Maya and Marmoset Toolbag.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Freelance 3D artist on AR With Friends project. Created highly optimized game assets for rendering in Spark AR while working closely with CG supervisors, ADs and technical artists. Created game assets and textures with Maya, Zbrush and Substance Painter.

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

Drove environment art development from initial client briefs to concept, gray box, and final delivered environments in a proprietary game engine. Contributed environment art and high fidelity prop art to prototypes and game demos. Helped develop the 3D team's pipeline to efficiently use Substance Designer-authored materials as well as speed up texturing workflows with Substance Painter. Created modular 3D art kits with Maya and Substance Painter to quickly and efficiently set-dress multiple projects.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Artist III at KDDS Group on various feature teams on Forza Motorsport for the Xbox Series X. Collaborated with designers, artists and devs to create a variety of pre-production content, created screenshots posed and staged in 3DS Max, contributed to publishing and marketing art, and worked closely with devs on tool creation and exploration.

Redmond, Washington, Us

2D/3D Artist at Yoh Services LLC on the Forza Team. Led production development of 3D digital entitlement assets for Forza Motorsport 7, from concept art to animated and textured hard-surface models. Worked on key 2D and 3D production elements with multiple teams on Forza Horizon 3, Forza Motorsport 6, and Forza Motorsport 7 for Xbox One and PC. Created mockups, 3D assets and animations, motion comps, and screenshots for Forza Motorsport 7. Contributed creative problem solving skills and multiple media art in a collaborative, multidisciplinary feature team. While on the Publishing team, provided assistant art-direction on eSports features for Forza Motorsport. Helped with lookdev, captures and polish for the Forza Horizon 3 Hot Wheels Expansion visual ID box art. Worked on art and screenshots for the weekly Forzathon challenges with the Forza Horizon 3 Engagement Team.

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

Delivered full game environments collaboratively on the 3D team on multiple projects ranging from realistic to stylized games. Created optimized 3D game assets, 3D animation, and concept art. Shipped Star Chamber with Starizon Studio, from the pre-production phase through to release and sustain work. Collaborated with artists, game designers and developers on various demos and prototypes. Assisted with prototyping, creative problem solving, and testing proprietary tools and workflows. Worked with industry standard tools like Maya, Zbrush and 3D Coat to create a variety of unique environments and props.

Renton, Wa, Us

Worked on an interactive touch-screen project in Unity. Prepped 3D assets for in-game rendering, designed the screen layout and created animated sequences for the project in Adobe After Effects. Collaborated with the dev lead to make engaging interactive experiences .

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Contract junior environment artist responsible for environment assets and props in a variety of styles for multiple projects. Worked on next-gen games as well as mobile games in the Unreal 4 and Unity game engines. Worked on environment modeling and level layout for Candescent Games' Tinertia. Collaborated with the White Elk Studios team on early preproduction and prototyping for the VR puzzle game Eclipse: Edge of Light.

Santa Monica, Us

Intern designer and animator. Contributed to an infographics project through 2D animation in After Effects and film editing in Final Cut Pro.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Worked as a teacher's assistant in an introductory Maya class. Provided support and assistance to students who are new to the software and helped them get familiar with 3D modeling and texturing.

Renton, Wa, Us

3D artist, concept artist and animation intern. Designed and modeled assets for a 3D projection mapping trade show event for Bluewater, as well as 3D & 2D content for Times Square ads for clients such as CNBC, The Hershey Company, and Aeropostale.

Bachelor'S Degree, Digital Media - 3D

Transfer, Fine Arts, Illustration