Eric Hart Email & Phone Number

Cary, Nc, Us

Responsible for helping to drive the success of assets being delivered from outsource partners

Irvine, Ca, Us

Character Outsource Supervisor for World of Warcraft Point of contact for Outsource partnersGather assets, information, examples, and templates to deliver to outsource partnerReview incoming art from outsource partners, provide feedback, and help support partners to deliver high quality assetsCommunicate state of oursource work to internal team and translate feedback from team to outsource partnersCreate VFX and implement outsource assets into the game Create models and textures for World of Warcraft

Austin, Texas, Us

Art Director on CrowfallResponsible for day to day Art efforts on Crowfall and interviewing and hiring potential candidates to grow and build the team.

Responsible for leading art efforts on Crowfall. This includes art direction, understanding and delegating bugs evenly among the art team, and balancing theworkload of the art team to ensure milestones are completed successfully. I am alsoresponsible for interviewing and hiring new art talent.• Art direction, Mentoring artists, Guiding visuals towards a cohesive vision• Balancing the workload and direction of the art team to align with company goals• Working to be an open line of communication between Art and other departments

During my time in this role, I was responsible for establishing the visual style ofcharacters for the game Crowfall. This included iterating on different types ofstylization and refining those efforts down to a cohesive vision. I was then responsible for modeling and texturing dozens of characters, armor, and weapons for theproject.• Established visual style for characters and creatures• Modeled and textures characters, creatures, armor, weapons, statues• Mentored other character artists and provided feedback to outsource teams

• Set artistic and technical guidelines for in-house and external artists • Defined the artistic style of projects and oversaw other artists to ensure a cohesive vision remained throughout the duration of the projects. • Modeled and textured characters and environments as well as overseeing their implementation into Unity. • Assisted in filling gaps in the art pipeline when required.

• Primary duties: Assisted in development of swappable clothing system and art pipeline for player driven character customization. UV and texture 3d assets to be optimized to run in a web based / Facebook environment. Assist in establishing and maintaining a solid visual style with mass appeal. • Secondary duties: Assist in modeling, level design, and general game design as needed.

• Primary duties: Creation of high quality hard surface and organic assets that are 3d printed and mass produced as collectible miniatures. Completed tasks and assets under extremely tight deadlines.

• Primary duties: Modeling, texturing, rendering 3d environment props, creating modular pieces and tile-able textures. collaborating with lead artist to determine technical specifications for assets• Secondary duties: Created preliminary file and organization structure, wrote .PDF tutorials for outside contract artists, worked SXSW booth with raffles, game challenges and promotional events

Freelance business for all types of Digital Media.