Joshua Turner Email & Phone Number

Costa Mesa, California

- Worked in a wide variety of project and team sizes, often filling multiple art roles at once.- Maintained constant communication with my leads, producers, and clients to assure the visual bar is not only met, but on time as well.- Worked with fellow artists in-house to help develop and explore adaptable tools that can be used on existing projects and.

Tustin, CA

- Aided world builders in fixing bugs and player space issues for a better gameplay experience.- Part of a small team that helped develop a very robust and flexible modular system for city architecture.- Crafted a large modular damage kit with hundreds of combinations to insure easy customization and interesting vistas.

Savannah, Georgia Area

- Mirrored realistic cabin lighting scenarios within aircraft to customer specifcations.- Aided a small group in designing a sales app using cabin renders and beauty shots.- If needed, modeled medium and high poly assets to assist in scene creation.- Using ZBrush, wrinkles were sculpted into seating and other areas to mimic wear.

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Overview: While calling models, actors, and locations, I set up week long photo shoots for a new TOTALe product.- Constantly kept in contact with photographers, and often brought them to scout locations and compose shots. - Organization was a must, requiring the correct paperwork, contact forms, and permissions on hand at all times.

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Overview: VRay rendering, scene dressing, animation, minor rigging TD, and 3DS Max Technical Support. - Produced high quality CG images for multi-national software learning materials.- Created rendering materials, props, and photogenic lighting scenarios.- Help diagnose and fix any rendering/software issues in a fast and timely manner.- Often worked.

Greater St. Louis Area

Overview: Freelance character creation. Working mainly in ZBrush, Maya, and Photoshop. Also used xNormal. - Working from concept art and off my own direction, I created game quality character models in Maya. - Using the Maya work as a base, I then created "cinema" quality sculpts in ZBrush, then combined the models with a balance of normal and displacement.

Greater St. Louis Area

Overview: Created character models and sculptures for an unreleased game project. I worked mainly in Maya and ZBrush. - Created character meshes for use in the UnReal game engine.- Mainly worked in ZBrush creating high res sculptures, along with Photoshop for map repair and adjustments. - Never missed a deadline or asset turn-in date.

Greater St. Louis Area

Overview: Honored to be given actual work instead of being the "coffee boy". This job gave me vital lessons and quick industry techniques that I still use to this day. - Aided various CG projects involving character modeling, sculpting, motion capture, and texturing.- Also simulated nCloth and rigid body effects.- Studied RenderMan rendering techniques..