Bryan Mentock Email & Phone Number

Champaign, Il

As the projects progressed, my technical intelligence and experience deepened, and I began to work parallel on multiple machines (physical and virtual) to accomplish the needs of the project through multi-tasking and efficiently utilizing machine- and my own mind's- resources. This ranged from batch processing tasks to troubleshooting/debugging animation problems, to testing new tools and methods.Unannounced Title - Delevoped cinematic implementation/integration pipeline for upcoming project to increase the workflow as well as the quality of cinematic aesthetics that were desired.Agents of Mayhem - Worked on cinematics creation to implementation into game from 2D cartoons to 3D in-game cinematics, and began my move to a more technical position on the Cinematic team. Became the person responsible for moving cinematic content from source creation to gameside and tackled all the problems along the way for a new pipeline and implementation workflow.Saint's Row IV : DLC - Developed cinematics for DLC content and maintained quality bar of visuals to meet memory requirements utilizing my own techniques to achieve end results with the lack of proper tools. Saint's Row IV - Worked on the Cinematics team to develop cinematics from script to end-product by creating storyboards/animatics and directing scenes for final animation, then proceeded to implement into final game environment taking on the most challenging and complex cinematic scenes. This took a lot of outside-the-box thinking to wrangle the data into the game limitations and memory restrictions, while still achieving the aesthetic bar for cinematics. I was responsible for implementing a majority of the cinematics from source to game on this project, and debugging problems along the way.Saint's Row: The Third - Worked as part of the Cinematics team and became a permanent addition to team. Tackled the most difficult and complex cinematics to work on and integrate into the game.

Champaign, Il

Spent time on Saint's Row 2 from being a vehicle artist to a lighting artist for cinematics at the tail-end of the project.

Champaign, Il

Worked with the vehicle art team on Saint's Row 2 to update existing vehicle models from Saint's Row with higher quality textures and create variations of parts for vehicle models.