Christopher Wright Email & Phone Number

Sandy, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

• Environment Artist for Animal Jam Play Wild!, Tunnel Town, Dash Tag, Tag with Ryan mobile games and Snoopy Flying Ace for Xbox.• Created and designed new environments for use in Animal Jam - Play Wild!.• Scripted mini game using C# to help programming team• Liaison between artist and Programmers. • Train new employees on best practices for optimizing game assets.• Ability to take game from concept to finished product• Created particle effects for world and game play elements• Designed various levels and scripted basic game interactions.• Rigged and animated characters and props.• Created a MEL script to speed up the render pipeline for Animal Jam .com.• Worked closely with modelers and designers to ensure proper play space for multiple games.• Help design and create mini games for use in Animal Jam- Play Wild!• Assisted QA team by logging bugs and regression testing.Software Utilized: Maya, Photoshop, Crazy Bump, Unity, Gaia, After Effects, MEL. C#, Jira, Trello, and Google Office.

• Created buildings and other objects for use in The Tale of Despereaux for Xbox 360, Wii, and PS2.• Modeled and Textured assets for use in the game.• Placed buildings in the engine to match level designers requirements.• Tested levels to ensure functionality.• Created lighting set up for a few of the worlds, which in turn would be applied to the textures.Software Utilized: Maya, Photoshop, Crazy Bump

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Responsible for lighting and rendering a Veggie Tales short film which was used on "The Pirates Who Don't do Anything" DVD.Software Utilized: Maya, Mental Ray, After Effects

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

• Media Director of several educational songs. • Responsible for compositing, color correction, lighting, rendering, rigging and modeling.• Created an automated rigging script to speed up rig creation. Rigs used IK/FK blending, stretchy arms and legs, full facial controls and easy transition between quad and bi pedal characters. • Helped develop a bird rig which would allow animators to treat feathers like fingers without having to manipulate dozens of feathers.• Designed a lighting system which could be used to adjust look and feel of the characters based on location and time of day for each scene.• Instructed artists in how to use After Effects 3D layers as well as camera tracking abilities.• Involved in designing the look and feel of the Central Park project. • Modeled and textured several environments to mimic locations found in Central Park.• Worked with designers to ensure thematic elements of games met with outlined educational goals.Software Utilized: Maya, After Effects, Mental Ray, Photoshop, MEL