Casey Mcdonnell Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Carpe Diem creates digital games and interactive works that are personal, emotional, thought provoking, different, and foster connections between people around the world.

Seattle, WA

• At E-Line/Upper 1 Games, I served as Art Director on a number of projects and collaborated with our executive team to build relationships, understand, and evaluate potential partner organizations for our inclusive.
• Oversaw the release of Never Alone: Ki Edition for IOS and Android. This included maintaining the original title's strong visuals, optimization of art for mobile platforms, the design of a touch-based menu system and.
• Led an internal and external art team through partial development of Unannounced Title (Studio Closure). This included creative development, art direction, concept art production, asset creation, and management of a.
• R&D of technologies, methods, characters, vehicles, structures, creatures, and environments for world-building, as well as high level explorations and proposals for level objectives, situations, and mechanics to meet.
• Travel to Hawaii, Chicago, Norway, and England for meetings with NGOs, Cultural Ambassadors, Scientific Advisers, and Public Service Organizations for project feasibility and vision/alignment investigations.
• Participation in a number of rapid prototype Game Jams (digital and physical) to validate and iterate designs. Prototypes included a VR cooperative title.Shipped Titles:

Seattle, WA

• I created a wide range of art assets for the BAFTA award winning game Never Alone. Beyond that, I worked to ensure a shipping game which was at the same time culturally appropriate, beautiful, fun, and engaging both.
• Character and Creature Modeling and Textures
• Environment Art, Level Lighting, Props, FX, and Collision for numerous levels.
• Target renders and look development.
• Researched Tools & Tech to realize vision of the AD and Concept Art.
• Worked closely with Level Designers to create tight coupling of Art and Play.

Redmond WA

• Character work including sculpting, texturing, renders, tools and pipeline development, and "next-gen" research. Worked closely with Character Lead to flesh out design concepts and realize art goals.
• Created numerous AAA quality characters, in-game and cinema, for multiple titles.
• Researched and documented "next-gen" character art pipeline and tools, including shading, DX11 tessellation, target renders and look development.
• Designed, lit, and rendered images for marketing and promotional purposes.
• Demonstrated software and techniques to the art team.
• Researched and recommended tools to improve character art pipeline.

Bellevue WA

• Served as Character Artist on team creating a comical, stylized game for the Xbox 360 (Studio Closed)
• Designed, modeled, and textured characters based off of short descriptions.
• Created character renders for presentation purposes.

Ba, Studio Art

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