Contractor for Epic Games Labs and FNE Team: Tech Art team management, Game Development, Materials, blueprints, content creation, tools development, FX development and mentorship of other technical artists

Contractor for Epic Games Labs Team: Materials, blueprints, content creation, tools development, FX development and mentorship

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GTA Trilogy Remaster- Senior Game Artist - Technical Vehicle Art, Rigging, Substance Painter/ Designer, complex material creation, content creation, tools development, Maya exporting and Mel scripting, Houdini buildings

- Provide art direction and technical direction for all game art, task all artists and provide deadlines, review all art and provide feedback, create 2D and 3D art examples as guidelines for concept, visualization, art processes and pipeline for multiple art skus- Proven ability to multitask on multiple projects, leading small teams of artists, several teams of outsourcers and interfacing with producers, designers and programmers to achieve goals and time schedules-Technical and artistic tuning of post-screen effects like bloom, motion blur, sunflare, screen color overlays and post process effects using LUA and Octane/Unreal game engines- R&D - Creation and implementation of PBR rendering and materials alongside Tech Director to match current rendering standards – Disney Metal/Gloss as base standard – Unreal/Marmoset to match visuals- Run daily or weekly meetings of the art team to examine goals, tasks, processes and reviews- Creation and implementation of complex HD shaders for next-gen art using Collada formats, multiple UV sets, RGB blending splatmaps, decals and additive effects for higher resolution texturing and terrain detail texturing- Terrain generation and creation using World Machine, Maya, and ZBrush - Personal art https://3d_dude.artstation.com

- Concept, design, model, UV and texture environment art, props, destructibles, vehicles and characters. Everything from next-gen models to low poly LODs for lower end platforms- Creation of attributed art and design objects for game iterations – collisions, animations and custom behavior using custom tools and LUA scripting- Model, UV, texture, rig and animate high resolution characters for ‘driver’ models- Experience implementing and testing ‘Phys-X’ and ‘Bullet’ collision models- Mentor artists and Jr. artists on the latest industry standards and techniques for HD game art

-Model, texture, UV, animate, export, test

Creation of 3D graphics for use in real time simulation environments using MultiGen's software packagesAs well as Maya, 3DS Max and Photoshop

Modeled, textured, rigged and animated characters for a real-time language training simulator using 3DS Max and OGRE.Various environment modeling using 3DS Max and Photoshop.Educational and instructional graphics using Flash and Photoshop.

Teaching 3D animation fundamentals and techniques in 3D Studio Max. Focus is on logo animation for broadcast and film.