Narrative Director for unannounced first person PC/VR title. Responsible for developing the world, characters, and narrative of the game, along with working with other departments to lay the foundation for robust mechanics and cinematics that support the story.

Narrative Director for Our Tribe Above All, a narrative-driven online co-op horde survival, fusing 'Vampire Survivor' combat with multiplayer strategy. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2566730/Our_Tribe_Above_All/Responsible for the worldbuilding, characters, and narrative, as well as helping develop multi-player mechanics that support the game themes.

Game Details: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2074620/Ars_Notoria/ Ongoing responsibilities Include:• Working with developers to create a narrative pipeline for a sprawling survival-action RPG inside an open world sandbox.• Wrote the overarching game narrative and theme that included multiple endings.• Created the narrative bible to be used by the entire team, including world building elements such as a glossary of terms, slang, and a historical timeline of the IP universe.• Created Articy Draft templates for quest creation that new writers could easily understand.• Current ongoing work writing scripts for main missions and side quests using Articy Draft, including barks and branching dialogue.• Wrote marketing blog posts for Halloween and Christmas events on Steam.• Recruiting other writers to help as needed once full quest production gets underway.

Develop IP and Screenplays for TV and Feature projects.Found - Feature Film Screenplay A troubled American soldier searches for a missing bomber crew while navigating the hostile cultural tensions of post-World War Two Japan. Below are a few of the following honors the screenplay has been awarded:• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences- Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Contest - Top 10% (Of 8000 entries)• Coverfly Historical Red List Select• Big Bear Film Summit 2020 - Winner - Best Feature Screenplay (Drama)• 2021 Golden Script Competition - Finalist / 2021 Golden List Feature Award• Creative World Awards International Screenwriting Contest - FinalistArañas Zombie - Feature Film Screenplay - (Optioned)A love letter to films like Critters and Commando, ARAÑAS ZOMBIE is a feature length horror-comedy. A teenage science prodigy fights off a horde of genetically engineered zombie spiders after stumbling upon her grandfather’s covert ops past.Additional details and other samples are available on my portfolio site: http://www.chadbriggs.com

Founded Element X to create compelling visual stories with universal appeal. Grew company from a solo endeavor to a team of 25 within two years, using no assistance of outside investment or capital. Wrote and directed narratives that utilized animation, VFX, and gaming in service of the largest entertainment IPs and product brands in the world. My work with the company has been featured in major industry publications such as Post Magazine, Computer Graphics World, Motionographer, and Shoot Magazine. Highlights include:• Writer of Stop. Watch. Love., an award-winning short film that also placed in top 50 out of 15,000 entries in Ridley Scott's Your Film Festival. • Creative Director of "Pancakes" an award-winning short film set in the Hellboy universe. • Creative Director over incoming outsource work from game studios such as Zynga, BonusXP, Playful, and Bigpoint GmbH achieving preferred vendor status. • Writer and Creative Director of Chili's Stadium, a popular internationally launched augmented reality World Cup soccer game created for Chili's restaurants. One of the first cross-platform multiplayer AR games on the market.• Creative Director on National Geographic's first foray into Web3D/VR training games for their scripted programs, which include Mars, Einstein, Savage Kingdom, and Big Cats. • Creative Director and Story Development for animated kids TV show “Bowloplis”.• Creative Director on award-winning Innovation Room, a large format interactive experience for HP Enterprise Services driven by Unity3D.• Creative Director of numerous Telly award-winning commercial broadcast spots.I helped design and supervise a strong vision for the company hardware/software infrastructure, eliminating as many creative roadblocks as possible from our development process. Sold the company in 2015, but stayed on in SCD role.

Delta Force: https://www.ign.com/articles/delta-force-return-teased-full-reveal-at-gamescom-opening-night-liveResponsibilities included:• Creating a narrative bible and historical timeline for the game world.• Writing character bios and actor audition dialogue for PC and NPCs.• Creating base mission script spreadsheet and writing the first hero mission arc.• Writing bios for the main game factions and their relationship to key NPCs.• Help audition actors for performance capture and voice roles.• Writing barks for numerous sets of NPCs and creating lore for in game items and equipment.• Mentoring junior writers and onboarding new senior writers to the team.

Developed two new classes for the school curriculum based on personal and peer observations where industry skills were under-developed. In Lighting and Materials for Unity3D students learned about developing AAA lighting and shading. In Interactive Storyboarding students learned how to develop and pitch narrative-driven games and animation projects from the ground up, starting with a logline and treatment, then working their way up to a fully fleshed out Kickstarter project. Have also guest lectured at other institutions like the Art Institute of Dallas and University of Texas at Dallas.

Worked locally and remotely as a freelance 3D generalist, motion graphics artist, and VFX compositor. Extensive skill set allowed companies to execute larger jobs by assigning tasks in multiple departments where needed. Clients included Mary Kay, ReelFX, and Hit Entertainment.

Co-founded a company that specialized in video e-mail technology. Submitted three patents for workflows and processes created during the companies existence before it was acquired. Oversaw construction of the post production pipeline, front end and server side aspects of video e-mail implementation, as well as creative direction of major jobs. Created marketing materials to increase brand awareness in addition to shaping company culture for successful venture capital campaigns.