John Dyer Email & Phone Number

Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I was a Senior Artist at Hothead, working on various areas of our games and teaching new artists in our pipelines and best practices. After Box Office Tycoon transitioned to live support, I became the lead artist on the project. I was the Lead Artist on a team of 6 for an unreleased project and a Technical Artist for another unreleased project.

Halifax Nova Scotia

I worked on several projects at PopReach as an environment and VFX artist.I often work closely with programmers to create game asset pipelines, such as a procedural map generator for our game Zombie Beach Party. I designed most of the environment tiles in the game and did many iterations on collision to get the game to feel just right.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

I worked on learning Hothead's in-house game engine and teaching the pipeline to the rest of the art team.I worked Killshot live support doing weapon models for first-person and helped build event levels for the game alongside the lead artist.I contributed to Killshot Bravo and was the environment artist for the PVP mode of Kill Shot Bravo. We built four maps with long-range 360-degree vistas. The maps needed to have enough detail to make enemies hard to spot while still appropriate for mobile hardware.On the project Mighty Battles, I worked with gameplay programmers to define how levels are constructed and established best practices for environments. I created many of the game's levels and trained other artists on how to build environments. I later moved on to VFX for the game. I worked with our graphics programmer to implement a new premultiplied alpha FX shader based on a GDC talk about Diablo 3. This shader uses layered noise to produce dynamic alpha and color in particle sprites. This shader allowed us to create motion inside the individual particles, reducing overdraw in particle systems by up to 50%. This shader became a core part of the game's style, and we used it in almost every aspect of the game, from VFX, environment FX, and the UI unit cards.

Halifax Nova Scotia

I worked on environments and props for the mobile game Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect.I crafted props for use in first-person game environments. Later on, during my time there, I was responsible for full environments, starting from short written or verbal outlines from the Creative Director.

I worked as part of a team of artists on various mobile Augmented Reality projects. I completed projects for many clients, including Marvel, Disney, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Absolut, Toyota, Mazda and Ford. I worked in many aspects of production including, Modelling, Texturing, Animation, Rigging, Lighting, Effects, Rendering and Compositing.

I worked on environment and Prop creation, Character Rigging, and animation for mobile Augmented Reality apps.