Steven Ashley Email & Phone Number

Salem, MA, US

Irvine, CA, US

Irvine, CA, US

Oversee and organize onboarding effort of environmental art team to integrate and replicate stylized, hand painted textures and efficient models.

Direct asset implementation and management of environment art team on Spell Break. Responsible for creating landscape (textures, foliage), structures (modular and bespoke), tilable and trim textures for hard surface and organic objects. Creation of substance painter smart materials for stylized materials. Responsible for R&D and implementation for foliage.

Direct implementation and management of art team on Spell Break. Responsible for creating landscape (textures, foliage), structures (modular and bespoke), tilable and trim textures for hard surface and organic objects. Creation of substance painter smart materials for stylized materials. Responsible for R&D and implementation for foliage, HLODs, octahedral.

Solely responsible for asset creation inside Streamline; Structures (modular and bespoke), tilable textures, landscape (grass, trees), vehicles and props. Placed all assets into all levels and managed performance. Worked closely with designer and managed outsourced props.

Needham, Massachusetts, US

Oversee and mentor production art group. During the course of the development, I evaluate new tools, both internal/middleware and various pipeline techniques to incorporate into our day-to-day operations. Review assets to ensure they meet our performance standards while maintaining a high quality bar. Facilitate communication within the team and.

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Responsible for commuincation within art department, mentoring Jr Artists, updating and mainting art guidelines and creating tutorial videos to provide further communication on how to use new aspects of the engine with the art team to reduce bugs and keep assets flowing into the game. In addition I focused on Building, Environment and graphic effects.

Emeryville, CA, US

Created character concepts, R&D for integration with Granny for characters and environments, creation of art guidelines and art project schedules for 2 projects. Responsible for communicating between two outsource houses to deliver a project on time. In addition I created concept artwork for two unreleased products focusing on 5-7 year old age ranges.

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Managed staff of eighteen in-house artists in addition to overseeing and approving art from outsource houses and offsite artists. Oversaw the needs of the individual artists to help build a strong, well-rounded department. Maintained art guidelines (technical document), having the artists actively participate in making additions to the guidelines to.

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Managed staff of twelve in-house artists in addition to overseeing and approving art from outsource houses and offsite artists. Oversaw the needs of the individual artists to help build a strong, well-rounded department. Maintained art guidelines (technical document), having the artists actively participate in making additions to the guidelines to instill.

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Responsible for training tutorials through the use of Adobe Premiere and Photoshop. Later being responsible for the editing suite and expanding my duties to non-linear editing using the Media 100.

In-house contractor creating 3D/2D motion graphics for clients.

Second Level Certification, Autodesk 3D Studio Max

Character Studio & Advanced Autodesk 3D Studio Max

Associates, Computer Animation/Multi-Media

Photography