Anthony Shanks Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Working as one of the lead artists responsible for the artist pipeline, delivery management of projects and the continued development of processes, tools and quality. Primary contact for junior artists helping to guide and develop their skills in 3D and Unreal. Responsible for environment art based R&D carrying out projects and developing improvements to both artist processes as well as our final product output, aiming to increase the photorealism and performance of the product. Working closely with the Unreal Developers to bridge the gap between quality and performance and finding the happy medium. Involved in a daily basis across all areas of Unreal Engine such as building the core master materials with appropriate parameters for fully customisable MI’s for use across artists projects and working on shader development for various bespoke or complex materials. Debugging and optimising projects, lighting scenes, creating bespoke 3D assets and most recently engineering a new landscape grass system for customisable sports fields.

London, England, United Kingdom

Worked as a 3D generalist, taking care of a range of tasks from modelling assets and environments, UVing, texturing and lookdev. Also lighting, layout and some previs and tech vis. Due to my main core skill set of modelling, texturing and lookdev this is where I spend most of my time It was a very small team, which required me to take full ownership and accountability for my sequences and taking it upon myself to proactively manage my work load on shots and quality check my work.

London, England, United Kingdom

I was one of the lead environment/prop modellers and environment surfacing artist on a project using Unreal Engine. I was responsible for modelling the environments and props, UVing them and optimising the geometry for Unreal Engine to make sure everything looked good up close but also wasn't too heavy geometry wise. I then textured all my models and built lookdev scenes within the Unreal project so that I could create the shaders and carry out the realtime lookdev of the models. I also made use of the material instancing system to build customizable shaders that allowed things to be tweaked and experimented with in realtime simply and easily on the fly.

London, England, United Kingdom

I moved full time into the build department as a generalist specialising in modelling, texturing and lookdev. This is where I shine the most as I have such a passion and natural aptitude for 3D modelling and texturing and I enjoy the challenge of taking an asset all the way through the process. I am responsible for creating high quality models with organised and animation friendly topology, also using appropriate naming conventions. I then UV unwrap the models retaining consistent textural density, avoiding too many UV shells and hiding seams out of sight. Finally I often move on to texturing the assets using most often Substance Painter. Then taking the exported maps and carrying out the final lookdev on the asset in Clarisse making sure the asset looks a real as possible in different lighting conditions. My leads and the clients have been extremely happy with my work so far and having had the chance to work and learn from some of the best at a high end VFX house has helped me to grow massively as an artist.

London, England, United Kingdom

I started DNEG as a runner and moved into matchmove to pursue my goal of 3D modelling, I have been responsible for taking on a range of VFX shots that required either a camera track for CG placements and body/object tracks for CG interactions, working in 3DE and Maya to achieve this. I have experience camera-tracking to lidar and to proxy geometry. Capable of calculating focal length and distortion manually and a good understanding of camera lenses. Working also in Layout I was required to use my skills in Maya to put together the assets for the scenes and use my creative eye when putting together a scene making sure it looks correct and everything is working well in the frame.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I have been working on a freelance contract basis with the indie games studio Pixion Games at first receiving mentoring on mobile games asset creation and then I became a valued and reliable freelancer for the company. I created many 3D models using a stylized low poly approach and utilizing normal maps and the textures to get in detail without adding excess polys. All the modelling is done within Maya and ZBrush and with a strict limit on the poly count due to mobile restrictions. I learnt to model from the concept art recreating exactly what was drawn but also being giving just mood board ideas and having to come up with the final model/concept myself.

Guildford, United Kingdom

I was responsible for supporting the companies software developers, I provided this support with the help of a 3rd party support company which I managed and they reported back to me with more technically challenging issues to resolve. I was also involved in the planning and executing of various IT projects, which I project managed through JIRA. This role involved constantly managing my time between daily support/operations, projects and any urgent IT incidents.

United Kingdom

I worked with the IT Manager as a team of two responsible for the entire IT infrastructure of the company. My role was more technically focused and I was tasked with the day to day network administration and running of the IT department including providing technical support to 70 users. During holiday periods, I would take on the role of acting IT Manager and be solely responsible for the department during these times. I did HTML coding to design email signatures and used my problem-solving skills to provide support for users on a wide variety of issues.

Guildford, United Kingdom

I completed a 12-week intensive training academy where I developed a variety of key skills and learnt a host of new skills to carry out the role of Police Officer. Most of my learning and development came from on the job experience where I was required to carry out my role with a high level of professionalism. I remained self-motivated and driven, as there were large amounts of course work and practical exams alongside on the job experience. I learnt a lot of valuable skills such as a high level of confidence in difficult situations, resilience, effective, communication, team working and problem solving.

Unreal Engine For Vfx/Virtual Production

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Cinematography And Film/Video Production, 2:1

Graphic Design