Jonathan Nascone Email & Phone Number

United States

Los Gatos, California, United States

I created characters, props and weapons for an unreleased UE5 project. The overall art direction was to achieve the look of classic 80's-90's Disney and Don Bluth. All characters, props and weapons had to convey a 2D, hand-drawn look in 3d.

I Lead and mentored a small character team to hit a high-quality bar that matches the IP visuals. Worked closely with Art Director to define and improve the aesthetic of characters and creatures. Responsible for research and development, scoping and scheduling of character team, tools requests and testing. Developed and refined the character pipeline, documentation, and technical style guides for internal and outsource teams. Helped refine an extremely robust and versatile bone scaling system… Show more I Lead and mentored a small character team to hit a high-quality bar that matches the IP visuals. Worked closely with Art Director to define and improve the aesthetic of characters and creatures. Responsible for research and development, scoping and scheduling of character team, tools requests and testing. Developed and refined the character pipeline, documentation, and technical style guides for internal and outsource teams. Helped refine an extremely robust and versatile bone scaling system with the ability to create a wide range of species and body types. Multi tasked Lead responsibilities w/ daily art creation, bug fixing, meetings and pick-up requests. Show less

Los Gatos, California, United States

I Modeled, skinned, textured, and set up materials for characters, costumes, creatures, and weapons. Collaborated with the AD to define and improve the visual aesthetic of the game. Responsible for research and development, scoping, tools requests and testing. Refined the character pipeline, documentation, and technical style guides. Worked with an extremely robust and versatile bone scaling system with the ability to create a wide range of species and body types. Multi tasked responsibilities… Show more I Modeled, skinned, textured, and set up materials for characters, costumes, creatures, and weapons. Collaborated with the AD to define and improve the visual aesthetic of the game. Responsible for research and development, scoping, tools requests and testing. Refined the character pipeline, documentation, and technical style guides. Worked with an extremely robust and versatile bone scaling system with the ability to create a wide range of species and body types. Multi tasked responsibilities w/ daily art creation, bug fixing, meetings and pick-up requests. Show less

San Jose, California, United States

I collaborated closely w/ the Game Director researching and developing the style and aesthetic for characters in Marvelous Designer and Substance Painter. I created 3d props and environment pieces the player interacted with in the game.

Quebec, Canada

Collaborated with AD on researching and developing the style and atheistic for characters on a later canceled project. Worked on iterative 3d exploration and concepts in Zbrush and 3ds Max.I designed, modeled, skinned and textured an array of dinosaurs and enemies for the Nintendo 3ds/Wii game "Battle of Giants: Dinosaur Strike".

Emeryville, California, United States

As lead character artist I researched and developed the modular armor/gear system for characters in UE3. I mentored junior artist, problem solved bugs, and established the character pipeline. I created digital head sculpts of Special Forces soldiers, as well as modeled and textured player characters, weapons, vehicles and level assets.

Texas, United States

I was contracted as an artist for Brother In Arms: Road to Hill 30 (Release on the PC March 15, 2005). As an offsite artist I worked with the art lead to model and texture various weapons and vehicles in 3d Studio Max, and Photoshop.

For Spy vs. Spy (released April 6, 2005) I worked with the art lead to model and texture character outfits and props in 3d Studio Max and Photoshop.

I was contracted by White Knuckle Games to work on action game Singularity (Canceled on the PC). I worked as a generalist 3d artists for a small core team with responsibilities of modeling/texturing characters, level assets as well as game design and user interface in 3d Studio Max, and Photoshop.

3D Art, Game Design

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