Jan Tverdik Email & Phone Number

Jan Tverdik is a Principal Environment Artist at Crytek. They possess expertise in retopologizing, texturing, normal map baking, 3ds max, maya and 14 more skills. They is proficient in Englisch and Latein. Colleagues describe them as "I managed Jan Tverdik as a organizational lead and there is one statement about Jan and I would like to start this recommendation with. "Jan is an extrem hard working and outstanding Environment Artist!" With his very calm and positive attitude even in the most stressful situations/stages of the game production, Jan became by far one of the most reliable and very efficent member of Crytek's Art team. During the time I worked with Jan, he started to take more and more responsibility and ownership which is way above what you expected from somebody back then in a Junior role. A very good example for this, is a tool which is now used again in our pipeline to create efficient LODs for our game assets. The tool was not really efficent at that time and hard to use for new people. Without being asked, Jan saw the need of the tool in the production and he took the full ownership of the tool. He worked together with one of our tool programmer to fix the tool and added even more helpful improvements to it and made it more accessible and easy to use for his co-workers. Jan gave a very good workshop to his co-workers, where he explained the correct and most time saving way to use the tool in our production, it saved the project a lot of time and helped to keep Crytek’s high standard visual quality up. Communication and collaboration with cross functional departments is another very strong skill which Jan owns. When potential problems appear in the art production, he actively seeks help from people from other departments, communicates and solves the problems together with co-workers early. He is always willing to help people, not only when they approach him also when he sees that somebody in the team struggles with getting a task done. His very strong ability to think way ahead when it comes to potential roadblocks and production problems is a skill which we except from a very good Environmet Artist, and Jan has a lot of it. To quote his department lead, at this point: “Jan is fixing a lot of issues way before they appear, most of them while he is planning his tasks.” Jan has a very strong ability to understand, learn and execute new workflows and given feedback from leads and managers and the end results are usually exceeded the expectations. He knows his tools very well, he uses scripts and shortcuts to streamline his workflow even further for faster production speed. Jan is absolutely a highly organized Artist. His time estimations for tasks are always very reliable and precise, which makes it easy for the leads and managers to plan. He is getting almost all of his tasks done way before the given deadlines, but always on a Crytek high standard visual quality level. A combination of the reasons as explained above make it easy for everyone in the team to clearly see the goals which he wants to achieve at any time. I would be more than happy to work with him again in the future."

Listed skills include Retopologizing, Texturing, Normal Map Baking, 3Ds Max, and 15 others.

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