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California, United States

Austin, Tx, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Tokyo, Jp

Working alongside the graphics engineering department at SIE R&D, created high-resolution character assets for use with real-time subdivision on the PS4. This included concepting, modeling, and texturing using PBR based materials.

Victoria, British Columbia, Ca

Lead Character Artist - Tome:Immortal ArenaRevamped the creation of all character assets on Tome: Immortal Arena to help unify the look of the characters and help them read better from an isometric camera. Introduced hand painted texturing techniques that still worked well with more modern shader pipelines in Unity. Struck a good balance between the two.Working with my Creative Director and Art Director, I provided art direction on character concepts and in-game character assets, as well as produced character concepts and in-game art.Facilitated team communication with the Principle Graphics Engineer to implement shader improvements that were efficient, including developing cheap ways to create new looks for existing skins.Created best practices and guideline documentation for the character team.Worked with project management to structure and execute on sprint roadmaps.Lead Artist - Cancelled Browser Based RTSResponsible for the production of all art assets, including environment and characters. Under the Senior Art Director, I provided art direction, concepts, low poly models, and texturing.Worked with graphics engineer and techart lead to implement an art pipeline within Unity. Mentored Junior Artists.Worked with outsourcers for the production of environment assets, which involved creating proper documentation for them to follow in order to facilitate keeping assets clean and consistent, and at the highest possible quality without too much rework.Provided solutions to game design for visualizing technology upgrades on the characters and buildings.Worked with project management to structure and execute on sprint roadmaps.

Irvine, Ca, Us

I worked on Diablo 3 as a Senior Character Artist. Concepting, modeling, and texturing were my main duties, with an emphasis on modeling and texturing. Led development of the character pipeline and methodologies when the project was in its infancy at Blizzard North. Localization of character assets.

Us

Modeled and textured various next-gen characters and creatures for the Sony PS3 game Lair.

Concept art, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation and of character assets and weapons. Oversaw character asset production.

Created characters and environments for various web browser enabled real-time 3D projects. Some of these were more akin to virtual walkthroughs rather than games. Duties included everything from concepts, to 3d modeling and animation.

Created characters, animations, and environments for various web browser enabled real-time 3D games related to Hollywood properties such as Xena: The Warrior Princess and An American Werewolf in Paris.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I did storyboards, concepts, animation, and 3d modeling, and texturing on multiple projects.