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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 development process. This included vision alignment, Creative Direction, Art Direction, prototyping, R&D, and the building of close working relationships.• 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 control UI, as well as proposals for a fully gesture-based movement system.• 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 talented art team.• 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 our tonal goals through play and visuals.• 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:• Never Alone: Ki Edition (IOS, Android)

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 emotionally and intellectually.• 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.• Ensured art met quality bar, stayed on schedule, and was performant on selected platforms.• Conducted thorough research, ensuring art was consistent with the views of our Cultural Advisers.• Provided continuous critique of Art, Design, and the Play Experience throughout production.Shipped Titles:• Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (PC, Linux, Mac, PS4, XBOX One, PS3, Wii U)• Never Alone Foxtails (PC, Linux, Mac, PS4, XBOX One)

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.• Worked with Rendering Team to improve character lighting and shading in MAG.• Worked with Animation Team to improve character deformation in SOCOM 4.• Collaborated to create an art-driven character customization system.Shipped Titles:•Unit 13 (Vita)•SOCOM (PS3)•MAG (PS3)

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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