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Orlando, Florida, United States

Sarasota, Florida, United States

• Collaborated with the production team to create 3D scenes for client architectural firms to be rendered in real time in the Unreal Engine 4 game engine. Images of some of the projects I worked on can be found here.
• Modeled cityscapes based on client design renders, photo reference, and real world city data ensuring accurate building heights and dimensions.
• Populated assets in project scenes ranging from interior scenes to town centers spanning several city blocks.
• Optimized architectural models provided by clients into game ready assets.
• Iterated on projects based on client feedback during design and proposal phases for large scale projects under strict deadlines set by clients.
• Assembled, play-tested and debugged gameplay functionality for scenes using tools created by the in-house production team.

• Worked as part of the art team to develop the look and art direction of Vectromirror
• Created sketches in traditional media and digital paintings in Photoshop to create concept art for proposed environments.
• Created paintovers to evolve the design of existing assets and levels, including the game's proposed "hub" level.
• Modeled assets in Maya LT and textured using Photoshop, nDo and the Quixel Suite.

Sarasota, Florida, United States

• Worked as part of a team of 9 students under the employ the Ringling College collaboratory program in association with American Zoetrope to produce concept, assets, and a trailer for the client for a Kickstarter pitch.
• Modeled photorealistic weapons and assets appropriate to the era of the Vietnam war.
• Textured assets using the Quixel Suite and rendered in 3Do and in real time using Unreal Engine 4.
• Experimented with UE4 and the Quixel Suite which had just been released to learn their functionality and pipelines and instruct other team members in their use.
• Experimented with Unreal Engine 4's Blueprint Visual scripting to create gameplay interaction.
• Documented new processes to share new systems with the team.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Assisted in instructing high school level students on the basics of game design and game art, and the fundamentals of using the Unreal 3 engine during a rigorous four week period.