Christopher Galvanin Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Delivered 10 launchable XR experiences for 6 clients ranging from Microsoft (HoloLens) to John Deer. Worked directly with clients to define application goals, design, scope, features, and look & feel. Identified and developed pivot plans to address newly discovered work and client feedback. Built, developed, and refined XR Unity pipeline, improving efficiency by 225%. Authored and technically integrated all art, spanning from stylized to realistic PBR. Utilized Unity to build prototypes and production launches. Mentored junior artists and interns. Published 3 blogs and 2 webinars focused on Immersive Technology resulting in multiple client leads for the company.Notable Projects:• HoloBeam (Hololens/Telepresence) – Used by Satya Nadella at his Keynote during Microsoft Inspire 2018: Developed and executed art style and design with our team for Keynote experience highlighting our telepresence technology and the power of the HoloLens 2• Tire Explorer (Hololens) - Microsoft Build 2017: Designed and implemented a highly detailed pipeline for a photorealistic tire and its parts. Setup and ran a booth for 100s of attendees, generating client leads with our team• Digital Twin Manufacturing (Hololens) – Created all art and implemented the bulk of the Unity experience for this chemical plant breakdown scenario and repair walkthrough using HoloLens. This experience is being displayed in 31 Microsoft MTCs around the world

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Titles - Deer Hunter 2016 / Deer Hunter 2014 / Sniper X: with Jason StathamManaged a team of 6+ artists at our sister studio in Hyderabad working on Deer Hunter 2016 and Deer Hunter 2014 which together grossed $80 million over 2 years. Primary contact for all four outsourcing vendors working on photo-realistic weapon and animal assets for Deer Hunter 2016, Deer Hunter 2014, and Sniper X. Built, refined, and onboarded others to an efficient external pipeline enabling quick ingestion of assets for 3 major Glu titles. Built relationships and provided feedback to vendor to ensure quality bars and schedules were met. Worked with team leads and external managers to maintain top quality assets while completing all tasks on time and within budget for every two-week content update. Collaborated with the Art Director and Concept Artists daily giving feedback to fine-tune outgoing concept art before tasking outsourcing vendors and other external artists.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Titles - Amazing Battle Creatures / Dragon Storm / Defenders & Dragons / Tons of Guns / BombshellsHand-painted 100s of assets using Photoshop to create textures ranging from metal, glass, and wood to fur, skin, and clothing in any style, realistic to cartoony. Helped develop and use a highly detailed pipeline for weapon and character creation. This included using Unity to set up assets by creating Prefabs, refining in-game models with materials and simple shaders, and conducting final asset checks in-engine. Created high-poly sculpts of weapons and animals using ZBrush. Modeled and refined low-poly assets, matched rigs, created efficient UV sheets, and cleaned scenes for animators in Maya.

645 Andover Park West Seattle, Wa 98188

I taught many classes at the International Academy of Design and Technology. Introduction to Modeling in Maya, Advanced Modeling, ZBrush Advanced Modeling, and Texturing and Lighting classes in Maya and Unreal.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Titles - The Agency, DC Universe OnlineHigh Res Clothing Modeling, UVing, and Texturing. Created LODs and burned down textures from High Res Meshes to make them ready for weighting and animating.Grew from an Intern to Contract to Full-Time hire. Great job and amazing coworkers!

Media Arts And Animation, Art

Engineering

Studied Engineering, Architecture, Fine Arts and Classics.