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Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Work with external partners and provide feedback to maintain artistic vision on characters as well as create and maintain documentation to help uphold production standards.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Worked as art lead, helping to vis dev and prototype characters, rigs, animations, environments and props for unreleased project.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Developed character models and serving as lead for all character art outsourcing on Harry Potter VR experiences (Wizards Take Flight and Chaos at Hogwarts) at Harry Potter New York

Greater Los Angeles Area

As lead I oversee the production of characters and environments, working with the concept team developing new content as well as managing artists to maintain quality, performance and delivery of art assets. I also work with tech, engineering and animators to ensure character functionality.

Greater Los Angeles Area

As a character artist, sculpted, re-topo'ed, and textured character models using a wide range of applications including Zbrush, Maya, and Substance Painter. I worked with concept artists, tech artist and leads to create models from the ground up. I also assisted in prototyping, rigging, and VFX where needed.

Greater Los Angeles Area

I worked with producers and engineers to develop the art style for a mobile game prototype. I colloborated with team members, designed, modeled, rigged, and animated 3D asets to turn around a full functioning app in a short time

At Funplus I created and animated 2D and 3D assets for a mobile title as well as implementing assets in Unity, setting up prefabs, concepting art, creating VFX and trouble shooting issues/bugs/

Greater Los Angeles Area

I revamped VFX, making them more interesting as well as visually consistent. I helped move along the production schedule by modeling, texturing, rigging and animating low poly characters in addition to the VFX work.

Glendale, Ca

On Nickelodeon's Monkey Quest I helped revamp the art style by creating new characters, levels, props and environments. I contributed in concepting and developing new events, pushing for new ways to use existing technology in order to give the player a variety of gameplay. I was part of a very small team that developed the successful Monkey Blast mini game in just a few short weeks and created all new models and animations for the Pet Battle feature. I worked on levels, new features, new characters and event, always ensuring optimization to create a smoother gameplay experience.Before that I developed game concepts, assets, and an art pipeline for an Grumpy Wizard, an unreleased Nickelodeon mobile game where I worked closely with art directors and designers to develop the overall look of the game. I also helped developed the art pipeline and interchangeable rigs and animations ensuring an efficient and optimal build. I worked with programmers to develop a tower building mechanic so that art could be created, animated and mixed and matched seamlessly.

San Francisco Bay Area

After the initial release of Capital City where I worked on concept and production, I was able to take on a lead role in developing a new direction and art for Capital CityI worked closely with art directors to re-imagine the look of the game, and also with game designers to concept new features and assets. I also worked in production, creating and animating a wide range of assets from characters to environments, vehicles and VFX, and also managed a modeler and two animators to ensure quality and timely delivery of assets.Throughout the process I was in constant communication with programmers to optimize game performance, understand the technical needs, and helped develop the art pipeline.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked as an artist on MTV's Jersey Shore game on Facebook. My roles included developing concepts, producing Flash animation and working closely with developers to ensure the product ran as efficiently as possible.I also worked on several concepts and specs for unreleased products, using skills in both 2D and 3D to generate ideas best suited to the IP.

Oakland, Ca

Worked with account executives and directly with clients to create outdoor advertising. I also worked closely with the Marketing Manager to create sales and marketing materials.