Jarien Skywall Email & Phone Number

Make 3D characters! Details TBD.

Over the years I've freelanced for various clients. Here are some highlights, starting with most recent.Title: May's Journey. Client: Chaima Jemmali, Northeastern University, & UC Santa Cruz. Platform: PC, Web.Handpainted artistic stylized fantasy characters for educational game to teach computer programming.Title: Botanical Blaster. Client: Mousepack. Platform: Web and mobile AR and VR.Model and texture props for demo project for developers using Niantic’s 8th Wall platform. Some concept art.Title: BeeQuest. Client: Niantic. Platform: Web VR and mobile AR.Model, texture, rig, and animate creatures, props, and environments for asynchronous AR & VR game on Niantic's 8th Wall platform. Some concept art.Title: Nunaka. Client: FableVision Studios (in conjunction with Chugachmiut, an Alaskan Native consortium). Platform: iPad, Android.Model and texture stylized characters, environments, and props for multi-award-winning Pre-K educational game. Help with real-time best practices and in-engine setup. Maintain the vision of exploring the heritage of the Indigenous Alaskan Sugpiaq of the Chugach region. Work with Art Lead to translate 2D art to in-game 3D art while maintaining and refining the visual direction.Titles: various. Client: SuperScience LLC. Platform: VR, PC.3D models, textures, and materials for characters, props, and vehicles. Help with tech art, art direction, and engine implementation.Title: Morgantina VR. Client: Archimedes Digital. Platform: Google Cardboard, Gear VR, Tango-enabled Android devices, HTC Vive.Asset creation, optimization, and R&D for archaeological/architectural reconstruction.

Newton, Ma, Us

- Standardize, document, and teach 3D art practices. Troubleshoot technical issues.- Supervise Technical Artist.- Streamline Art Team to Development Team 3D asset pipeline.- Oversee automation tools and improvement initiatives, and align them to priorities of Product Owners, Artists, and leadership.

- Model and texture 3D characters and alien creatures. Consider artistic impact such as proportion and silhouette, and technical constraints such as topology and vertex count.- Collaborate with Concept Artists, Narrative team, and Art Lead to ensure visual aspects of character designs such as anatomy and colors uphold the game’s vision and world building.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Identify pipeline needs; propose, lead, and contribute to cross-team projects; measure business impact and iterate.- Lead R&D artist team developing techniques for creating photoreal complex surfaces like wicker, fur, velvet, tufting, and wood.- Define and document visual and technical standards to ensure internal and external 3D artists hit target quality.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Lead, mentor, and provide feedback to artist team creating models, materials, lighting, and renders for photoreal images.- Help steward respectful culture and professionalism while working with Seniors to create training and standards while growing team of 5 to 60 artists in 1 year.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Photoreal lighting and rendering interior environments in V-Ray & 3ds Max- Procedural material creation in V-Ray & 3ds Max- 3D asset cleanup - model, texture, and UV fixes

Boston, Ma, Us

App: IdeaSpacePlatform: Google Daydream- 3D asset cleanup & in-engine setup- Stereoscopic 360 lighting & renders (3ds Max and V-Ray)- Cross-team collaboration for UX and UI assistanceApp: Patio PlaygroundPlatform: Oculus Rift- Primary dedicated artist for the app- Materials, textures, modeling- 3D graphics pipeline assistance- Lighting and rendering optimization- Helping develop UX, responding to feedback from playtestersApp: WayfairViewPlatform: Tango-enabled Android devices- 3D graphics pipeline assistance

Newton, Ma, Us

- Teach 3D modeling and texturing to college students in game art and animation Bachelor's degree programs.- Topics covered: topology, hard surface modeling, organic modeling, general modeling tools and good practices, UV unwrapping, photo composite texturing, handpainted texturing, procedural node texturing, baking maps, export/import to real-time engine, real-time and baked lighting.- Software used: Maya, Photoshop, Unity, Substance Designer.

Coralville, Iowa, Us

- Create scientifically accurate dissectable 3D assets of human anatomy, animal anatomy, and microbiology for educational software.- Indoor and outdoor environments, props, hard-surface models, vehicles.- Create assets for the interactive 3D version of Frank Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, based on Netter's illustrations.- Create texture and material library. Set up assets in Unity engine, and use a variety of Unity's toolsets, including terrain tools, tree-creator, node-based shader creation, lighting and lightmapping, and editing particle effects.- Performance optimization for 3D assets for mobile and web-deployed software.Products to which I contributed:- CyberScience 3D: Holographic (zSpace)- CyberScience 3D (PC, web, and custom VR hardware)- Cyber-Anatomy: Holographic (zSpace)- Netter's Interactive Anatomy Powered by Cyber-Anatomy (published by Elsevier, PC and custom VR hardware)- Cyber-Anatomy 3D (PC, web, and custom VR hardware)VIVED Learning was formerly called Cyber Science 3D.

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Game: DamnationClient: Blue OmegaPlatform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC- Environment LODs- UV unwrappingGame: F.E.A.R. 2: Project OriginClient: Monolith ProductionsPlatform: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC- UV unwrapping- Texture applicationGame: Freaky CreaturesClient: Abandon Interactive EntertainmentPlatform: PC, mobile- Weapon modeling and texturing- Prop modeling and texturing- Basic riggingGame: Dragon Age: OriginsClient: BiowarePlatform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC- Prop modeling and texturing - environment assetsGame: RockbandClient: HarmonixPlatform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360- Prop modeling and texturing - guitars, basses, amps- Asset setup in developer's custom-built engine- Art asset QA, fixes, modificationGame: Killzone 2Client: Guerrilla GamesPlatform: PlayStation 3- Facial modeling and texturing- Prop modeling and texturingGame: Warhawk (including Operation: Omega Dawn expansion)Client: Incognito EntertainmentPlatform: PlayStation 3- Environment modeling- Environment LODs- Environment collision meshes

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Tutoring fellow students in CG classes in programs such as Maya, Photoshop, and FlashTutoring fellow students in general education classes

Arts; Bachelors Of Science, Media Arts & Animation

3D Character Art Private Mentorship

Advanced Stylized 3D Character Art Mentorship

Creating Stylized Game Assets

Advanced Video Game Character Creation

Figure Construction And Atelier Classes