Joe (Wampole) Jing Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Florida, United States

25+ year professional with big picture vision and attention to detail in every stage of development and a specialty in character design and creation including concept, modelling, texturing, and skinning. I have extensive experience planning and designing character creators with modulation and customization including bone scaling and blend shapes. I even.

United States

Spearheaded character research and development for Cryptic's first foray into UE. Worked closely with the AD, Tech Art, Animation, Design, and Production teams to ensure and refine the art direction, character pipelines, scope, and tools, with emphasis on cross department collaboration and utilizing team strengths. Created technical and style guides for.

San Francisco Bay Area

Helped improve and establish foundational systems and pipelines with a focus on generating large quantities of characters. Created up to 15 unique characters per week by utilizing modular kits, kit-bashing, color tinting, and body scaling.Games: Star Trek Online, Champions Online

San Francisco Bay Area

Directed art creation and style and managed 20+ internal artists plus outsource to the initial release. Collaborated with Design to facilitate immense quantities of asset creation - helping the team develop interesting and efficient environments, armor sets, weapons, monsters, and powers. Acted as liaison with the IP holders (Wizards of the Coast) and the.

Actively created characters for The Spiderwick Chronicles while creating the player character for a game pitch. This garnered interest in a new project with the Creative Director at Sierra Entertainment and I took on the Lead Designer position, planning gameplay, story, characters and locations. Also helped drive the art direction by contributing multiple.

Sole character artist for the majority of employment and created unique designs - function, movement, special abilities, weapons, concepts, modeling, texturing and skinning. Responsibilities eventually included managing a small team and limited contractor management.Game: Duke Nukem Forever

Collaborated and directed creative goals across all departments for all products. Acted as primary creative contact with the publisher and marketing team. Worked directly on design for hero abilities, controls, story, enemies, AI, level design, and screenplays. Contributed a significant amount of animation work while also creating over 1/4 of the character.