David Dawson Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Md, Us

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Ara: History Untold (PC/Xbox)Management of a team of 20 in-house artists, Collaborated with directors, designers, and producers to approve final game design and devise foundations, milestones, and deadlines for game asset production. Worked Directly with Microsoft Publishing and Marketing to establish visual targets, pipelines for Sharing content for promotional materials, vetting for art for inclusivity, age ratings and licensing. Established relationships with outsource partners, managed budgets, negotiated rates, and created tests to ensure final quality. Managed outsource partners, which included daily art direction and feedback, maintaining Dev Ops database, tracking documentation, and establishing feedback process. Outsource partners were responsible for creating nearly 90 percent of the game mesh content ARA. Hands on final art polish for characters, VFX, lighting and environments.

San Francisco And Beijing, China

Direction and Leadership of up to 20 artists, on 6 separate projects. Outsource management including; art direction, devising asset pipeline, creating documentation, resulting in the creation of nearly 80 percent of the game mesh content for 5 shipped titles. Hands on final art polish for characters, VFX, lighting and environments. Collaborated with directors, designers, and producers to approve final game design and devise character environment foundations and asset pipeline. Assembly of 4 complete environment art teams 2 Character Art Teams; interviewing, hiring and training staff. Engineered asset development pipelines for all assets from concept to completion. Titles Released:--Star Wars Uprising (Mobile: iPhone, Android) --The Hobbit, Armies of the Third Age (Web/Facebook) --The Hobbit, Kingdoms of Middle Earth (Mobile: iPhone, Android) --Dragons of Atlantis (Web/Facebook) --Edgeworld (Web/Facebook) --Legacy of Zeus (Mobile: iPhone, Android)

Direction and Leadership of up to 20 artists on 5 separate projects. Outsource management including; art direction, devising asset pipeline, creating documentation, resulting in the creation of nearly 50 percent of the game mesh content for 5 shipped titles. Hands on final art polish for characters, VFX, lighting and environments. Collaborated with directors, designers, and producers to approve final game design and devise environment foundations. Assembly of 3 complete environment art teams. Cooperative game development with third party publishers. Engineered environment asset development pipelines from concept to completion. Titles Released:--Iron Man (Marvel - Xbox PS3) --Iron Man II (Marvel - Xbox PS3) --Golden Axe (SEGA - Xbox PS3) --Xmen PSP (Marvel -PSP) --The Simpsons (EA Demo and Tech Development - PC)

Direction and Leadership of up to 40 artists on Republic Commando. Assembly of 2 environment art teams, interviewing then hiring a combination of 3 environment artists, 1 material artists and 2 modelers over the course of 1 year. Conceptualized and directed user end tool and pipeline development, assembling the directory structure, naming conventions, file translation tools, world building tools, and users’ manuals to create a successful asset development suite for 3 titles. Titles Released:--Republic Commando (PC, Xbox) --Bounty Hunter (PSX2) --Jedi Starfighter (PSX2)