Billy Smith Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, California, United States

Irvine, Ca, Usa

Initially hired to work on multiplayer maps for Echo Combat, I was later moved onto Lone Echo 2 where I became responsible for all of the side content.This involved initially experimenting with the games systems to design interesting puzzles and situations that made sense within the games fictional constraints.I implemented and maintained the mission scripting and did first pass dialogue with TTS tools, later implementing and maintaining the more fleshed out non linear dialogue pass done by narrative designers.To minimize art burden as much as possible, I scavenged the crit path for art to reuse kitbashing as far as I could, in the end only having a few minor art requests and optimizations needed.While waiting for some systems to come online, I did the art pass for one of the major exterior asteroid locations still in blockout form to help out the art team. First pass terrain and instance placement in Maya, then sculpting and UVing the terrain patches in Blender (lightmap + macro + map1), back in Maya generated lods (aside from a few problem meshes manually done in Blender) and organising the scene for HLOD generation.

For the past two years I have been working as Level Designer on STRAFE, a Roguelike FPS by Pixel Titans, published by Devolver Digital.I was responsible for Zones 2/3/4 from initial blockouts through to fully uv mapped/textured and playable spaces. Each zone consists of ~40 "rooms" that get procedurally strung together to form different levels each run. It's been a ton of work and a crazy amount of content but I have learned a lot and couldn't have asked for a better first job to get my shit together.

Bachelor Of Science With Honors, Computer Graphics Technology, 2.1 (Upper Second Class)

Professional Diploma In Film/ Tv Production