Visual Concept Development:• Defines the artistic vision and visual style for a project, aligning with the creative and narrative goals.• Creates or oversees mood boards, style guides, and initial concept sketches.Team Leadership and Collaboration:• Leads and mentors artists, animators, and designers, ensuring their work aligns with the overall vision.• Facilitates collaboration between departments, such as game design, programming, and marketing.Art Production Oversight:• Supervises the creation of 2D/3D assets, environments, characters, animations, and UI design.• Ensures assets are delivered on time, meet quality standards, and maintain consistency.Technical Integration:• Works with technical artists and developers to ensure that artistic assets function seamlessly in the game engine or production pipeline.• Balances artistic ambition with technical limitations and budget constraints.Quality Assurance:• Reviews and critiques work throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring it meets the creative brief.• Provides constructive feedback and solutions to address challenges in execution.• Innovative Problem-Solving• Develops creative solutions to enhance user engagement, storytelling, or gameplay experience through visual elements.• Anticipates and resolves artistic and production challenges.

• Cinematic art development in Unreal Engine 5, doing camera, layout, lighting, sequences, compositing, editing and general VFX• Asset oversight, material and surfacing development, look polish, color and final frames• Post-process calibrations, workflows and documentation for future pipeline of projects

• Consulting and lighting on cinematic assets for an unannounced project using Unreal Engine 5.• Compositing in Nuke from UE5’s MRQ renders.

- Part of the creative leadership team reporting to the CEO, providing studio advice and artistic direction.- Worked in a fast-paced art design agency setting handling multiple varied art projects at a time.- Met with clients (directors, production designers, producers etc.) to get launched on new projects and receive feedback on submitted work.- Conceptualized designs and gathered references to best represent the project’s intent overall art direction.- Owned and supervised high-quality delivery of all art.- Directed in house and outsourced external artists for various projects as a concept art design agency, giving feedback/paint-overs in line with client needs for animation, film, TV, video game & theme park companies.- Managed and mentored careers of artists to have them learn and grow, artistically and professionally.

- Spearheaded the development of Digital Matte Paintings & Environments as Lead Artist, as well as assisted the VFX/Lighting team for integration and support on a new unannounced IP and AAA cinematic/game.- Experience with Lumen lighting characters/environments in UE5 with PBR materials and shader editing.- Collaborated with concept artists, lighters, modelers, surfacers, and VFX Supervisor for high quality visuals.- Wrote documentation outlining best practices for setting up lighting and digital matte painting scenarios.- Created custom HDRI textures and 360 panoramic sky boxes for lighting and environment workflows.

I will be known as "Number 11" here, working as a core production senior artist using Unreal Engine 5 with a focus on real time digital matte painting, environments, lighting, rendering, compositing, for games and cinematics as well as sky art for upcoming brand new AAA games.

- Lighting, Rendering, Compositing and Digital Matte Paintings for cinematic sequences on al Blizzard video game titles: Overwatch 1 and 2, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo 3 and 4, Heroes of the Storm, and StarCraft 2.- 15-year veteran that worked with junior artists, providing mentorship, feedback, and artistic direction.- Lead development of key looks on characters and environments some cinematic sequences and trailers.- Created concept art for early visual development of certain cinematics.- Worked on “pre-rendered cinematics” and through a game’s real time engine for “in game cinematics”.- Collaborated with directors & art directors to support the story and artistic vision.- Created high resolution posters and art assets for the marketing for promotion and company products.- Team player with an eye for color, design, and high-quality work.

- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria- Diablo 3- Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty- World of Warcraft: CataclysmWorks range from Lighting, Rendering, Compositing and Matte Paintings.

- Starcraft 2: Intro Cinematic- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King- Diablo 3 Teaser- Starcarft 2: TeaserLighting/Rendering/Compositing/Matte Painting for Blizzard cinematics.

Teaching Matte Painting classes online at the CGSociety CGWorkshops with students around the world

Helped create and co-author d'Artiste: Matte Painting vol. 3 book with Damien Mace and Milan Schere for CGSociety.org/Ballistic Media Publishing. Book includes a forward and interview by us of legendary matte painter Michael Pangrazio, digital matte painting tutorials, and invited guest galleries.

- Night at the Museum- Superman Returns- Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties

Roto/Paint/Comp:- Silent Hill- Underworld 2: Evolution

Freelance: visual developer artist on 3D animated feature, Tinker Bell, working in Photoshop to paint/light sketched scenes from layout department so the 3D people can better realize their environments and textures.