April Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Anywhere, US

• People development and management. Enabling, supporting, and collaborating with Art Leads and ICs.
• Art development pipeline, process, and best practice building and coordination.
• Engagement at studio organizational level, deep Production collaboration, and facilitation of Game Director vision through Art department guidance and support.
• Supporting studio-level relationship with Publisher and IP representatives.
• Development game art, demo building, pitch coordination, aesthetic review, feedback, and art direction.
• Facilitating relationships and processes with contractors and external service providers.

Los Gatos, CA, US

• Cultivating studio’s centralized art org, made up of concept, marketing, and XDev artists, empowering Cryptic to create even more compelling and successful products. Includes non-direct management of technical art and.
• Mentoring, supporting, and collaborating with art leaders.
• Identifying and anticipating cross-project, studio art needs, employing strategic art staffing solutions, and investing in people and relationships. Enabling artists to deliver game art consistently, at high fidelity.
• Continued external art development responsibilities (see Senior Art XDev Manager below.)

Los Gatos, CA, US

• Spearheaded a studio-wide external art development program. Includes role creation and team building, strategic partnerships, talent identification and acquisition, mentoring, budget management, contract management.
• Coordinated with interdisciplinary project leadership to establish aesthetic and technical standards and developed processes and guidelines to uphold them.
• Art content creation and support, source control, engine implementation, tooling, pipeline, and game development related training.

• Established and maintained art outsourcing best practices, processes, and pipelines.
• Coordinated with art leadership and external devs. Art review, aesthetic, and technical direction.
• Coordinated with accounting/finance, contract management, negotiation, external partnership acquisition and maintenance.
• Art content creation and support, source control, engine implementation, tooling/pipeline and game development related training as needed.

• People management, production scheduling. Overseeing, approvals, coordination with in-house pipeline and process and external team-members.
• Individual contribution. Included ux/ui, concept, 2D/3D character art, animation, 2D/3D environment art, 3D printing, R&D, and art development for VR.

While working at Turn 10 Studios I held many titles. These titles includes: Senior Vehicle Outsource Artist, Senior Environment Artist, Environment Artist, Associate Environment Artist, and QA.

Worked as a contract world builder on Modern Warfare 3 for Wii.* Asset implementation, optimization.* Technical tuning.* Lighting and BSP structure building.* Bug fixing.* Worked on four levels, two primary.

400+ Illustrations (Hand Drawn, Photoshop finish)Web and Print Publicationhttp://nworthopaedic.com/