Benjamin Nicholas Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, WA, US

Working on Marathon, I created environment concepts, mood/lighting explorations, and designed various hard surface assets.

Mountain View, Californië, US

Working as a senior concept artist on Stadia first party games. During my time at Stadia, I did look dev, concept art, and illustration to help establish the identity of a new IP. As a 3d concept artist, I also provided support for environment artists, concept artists, and level designers by providing them with 3d meshes, kitbashes I created, render scenes.

Montréal, Québec, CA

I worked as a Senior Concept Artist on various Ubisoft IPs including Watch Dogs: Legion and several canceled projects. On those projects I established a 3d concept pipeline helping concept artists collaborate more with environment artists and designers. The result of this was faster asset production with great results.

Horsham, West Sussex, GB

As a senior environment artist on Halo Wars 2, I helped redefine Halo visual languages for an RTS. I led a team of 6 and provided direction on updated Halo art styles. Gave feedback to the concept team as well keeping visual languages in line with the mainline Halo franchise.

Redmond, WA, US

Created hard surface environment art for multiplayer maps in Halo 5. My work was focused on the new MP mode, Warzone, which allowed me to collaborate closely with level designers to create some of Halo's biggest maps.

Bellevue, WA, US

I model and texture environment art and props; while also doing world building and lighting levels.

Bellevue, WA, US

Offsite prop and weapon artist working on Camouflaj's flagship title Republique.

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, DE

• As Adidas' dedicated 3d concept designer, I develop new design languages and help generate ideas for top tier product within the Advanced Team. My responsibilities include:
• Using 3d tools such as Zbrush and Maya to design, concept, and iterate on key products that help define the future design and color languages of the brand
• Sitting in on reviews with both design and marketing to find a consistent visual direction
• Rapid prototyping models for presentations and critiques
• Teaching designers how to use 3d tools to help with the design process

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, DE

I worked in the Direction group within Sports Performance and was part of a team that created the first 3d based virtual pipeline in Adidas. The end goal was to develop 3d tools for designers while meeting their creative needs and the practical requirements of the pipeline. My responsibilities included:- Modeled and textured for both internal and external.

As art lead, I oversaw the creation of all models and textures for Sony's second mentorship program with the Art Institute of PortlandMy responsibilities included: - Giving art assignments and helping keep track of assets over the course of the game production- Critiquing all models and texture to ensure they met with the art style and quality standards.

I created 3d models and hand painted textures for a canceled mobile and social game

Beaverton, OR, US

I modeled and textured for various Nike ads and promotions

· Assisted in multimedia projects such as videos and web design· Developed a jQuery turnaround app that allowed clients to manually turn around 3d model online

I worked on the first Sony sponsored game production team within the Art Institute of Portland. As modeling lead and art director- I oversaw my portion of the pipeline and ensured that all models met our personal standards and those of Sony - Helped ensure that all changes Sony requested were made in a timely and efficient manner- Studied the art and.

I created 3d and 2d assets for web design, mobile applications, and mobile games. This included developmentfor the iPhone and iPad.