Justin Hrala Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

• Creates a variety of weapons, props, and environment assets for Dune: Awakening.• Works within interdisciplinary teams, collaborating to ensure asset integration quality.• Reviews outsourced assets for quality and technical standards.• Writes thorough art pipeline documentation for internal and external teams.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

• Creates 2D, 3D, and product print assets to include models, textures, and tutorials through online marketplaces.• Utilizes AI, SEO, keyword optimization, and market research to enhance sales potential.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Developed production pipeline workflows to be used across internal and external teams.• Mentored junior artists for their creative and professional growth.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Created high fidelity hard-surface 3D models and textures for various military vehicle operation and maintenance training taught through virtual, mixed and augmented reality.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Provided visual storytelling to Halo: Infinite structures by adding grunge and dirt masks to a variety of meshes and surfaces

Greater Seattle Area

• Developed and created original 3D textures and graphics for The Grand Tour Game.• Optimized draw calls and memory usage to deliver a solid framerate for weekly releases.• Documented game art creation workflows for outsourced studio teams.

Kirkland, Wa

• Kitbashed existing in-game assets for Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and managed database user-interface (UI).• Improved UI texture assets to meet high performance metrics.

Mckinney, Tx

• Created previs props, environments, and designs for an unannounced 3D game project.

Plano, Tx

Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development. Specialized in Art Creation.

• Created decal sprite sets for an unreleased mobile game Beasts vs Bots.

Plano, Tx

- Art Lead for a team of five artists during the production of the Capstone Game Project. - Responsible for developing the overall look of the game, task and asset management, documentation and review.

Plano, Tx

- Successfully lead a three-person art team during production of Team Game Project II. - Responsible for developing the overall look of the game, task and asset management, documentation and final review.

Plano, Tx

- Worked as the sole artist during production of Team Game Project One, a 2D adventure game created with proprietary software. - Responsibilities included defining the look and feel of the game, creating all concept art and marketing materials, creating all of the multiple static and animated 2D assets.

Leominster, Ma

Digital sculpting, 3d modeling, and illustration.

Devens, Ma

- Prepared, processed and tracked various personnel actions, to include awards,evaluations, transfers, gains and losses for a 100 member unit.- Awarded Army Commendation Medal for service (2011).

Pittsburgh, Pa

- Prepared and processed various personnel related documentation to includeawards, casualty and status reports for a 70 member unit.- Awarded Army Achievement Medal for leadership during annual training(June 2007 – July 2007)- Awarded Army Commendation Medal for service during Operation Iraqi Freedom(December 2003 - January 2005)

Pittsburgh, Pa

- Created environment and character assets for the game A Tale in the Desert; part-time.

Master’S Degree, Interactive Technology

Digital Game Development - Specializing in Art Creation - Cohort 20

Bs, Media Arts And Animation