Connor Bridson Email & Phone Number

Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand

Creating Toroa: Skycall with a team of a 7. Wearing many hats! 3D Art for characters and environments - Modelling, Texturing, Animation and Shaders.Game Design - Controller feel, level layout, quest design.UI/UX Design - Menu design and implementation, dialogue subtitles design and implementation.Visual Effects - Particles and shaders using Niagara and Blueprint within Unreal Engine.

Remote

Worked with many studios around the world remotely as a 3D Generalist, primarily on characters in the games and entertainment industries.

Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand

Worked on the launch of XERA: Survival within a team of 7 using Unreal Engine 4, marvelous designer, Zbrush and Maya, I designed and created enemy robot units, the player character customization system including the clothing skin system with a library of cosmetic clothing assets. I also rigged, skinned and animated various animations for the player character, and created particle FX for grenades and weather using cascade.

Shipped two VR titles as the sole artist, building upon a 'block-cartoon' style and gained skills for heavily optimizing assets for VR.Worked within large teams primarily creating environment, characters and weapons, learning directly from industry veterans from Bethesda, Weta, Dice and Bohemia Interactive on an unannounced 'AAA' title. Worked as a generalist doing VFX and animation to help meet deadlines as the project required.

Auckland, New Zealand

Worked closely with a lead programmer to redesign webmail User Interface to promote security and usability. Primarily used Adobe Photoshop to produce concept designs for layout and an entire range of UI elements including buttons, menus and windows.