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Brampton, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

London, England, Gb

Los Angeles, California, Us

London, Gb

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Gb

Gameplay Programmer and Technical Artist working on a number of exciting games and kinect experiences for global, household brands.

Portsmouth, Hampshire, Gb

RITA is a Virtual Reality project which requires the real-time animation and rendering of a Virtual Avatar. I have been writing an animation control system in C# that plays and blends multiple facial animation states produced in Maya, based on an Affective State Input.Additionally, I have written a Rim Shaded Skin Shader to emulate Subsurface Scattering on multiple devices, including mobile, in CG to meet the high fidelity requirement outset by the project brief.The project utilises Unity3D with additional Morph Target support and MonoDevelop.

Portsmouth, Hampshire, Gb

I work in the Study Support Centre for the Creative and Cultural Industries department, helping and mentoring students who have issues with their academic work or general university life.As well as this I teach the fundements of Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash as well as ActionScript 3.0

I was responsible for a number of 3d environment assets and textures. I produced the designs and 3d models as well as the Diffuse, Normal and Specular maps. 3d models were produced in 3d Studio Max, demonstrating:• Efficient Polygon Modelling• Optimised UV Mapping• Projection Normal Mapping• Ambient Occlusion BakingTextures were produced in Photoshop with Photo References.

London, Gb

I taught a mixture of subjects ranging from Game Design fundements to 3d Asset Creation.

At Cold Cactus it is my responsibilty to create high quality dynamic environments and write any shaders needed. Working on a Cold Cactus project I was awarded best animation at the University of Portsmouth 2010 Game Jam.We also entered the 2011 GameJam.

Msc, Computer Games Technology

Bsc, Computer Games Technology