Kjeld Pedersen Email & Phone Number

Giving back to the game community and up and coming artists in game dev.

Creating exciting things for a brand new studio!

San Francisco Bay Area

Preproduction and early production,Pitching games, mood boards, research, pipeline development,working on Photoshop, Zbrush, Maya, Unreal 4, Substance Designer, Painter mostly.

California, United States

Helped Beenox studios by aiding in creating 2 tracks, Inferno and Thunderstruck.

San Francisco Bay Area

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiny-horses-derby-adventures/id977551352?mt=8 nightlightmobile.comco-founder: mobile gameArt directing, and Generalist, overseeing few artists-Concept creation, modeling, rigging and animation-Shared responsibilities with analytics, game design and company strategy and product placement.

Novato - CA

Skylanders Imaginators -Responsible for environment creation, PBR material creation, polishing levels for shipping, integration for Xbox one, PS4. In charge of creating the most used level used for marketing the game, part of strike team in charge of polishing levels, solving visual problems on environments, polishing in what they lacked, material.

San Francisco Bay Area

Contract project to create 3D model parts and prototype them in 3D prints for civil construction.These bridge parts help to hold and align the cables.

Skylanders Trap Team-Responsible for environment creation, material creation, polishing levels for shipping, integration for Xbox one and Wii compatibility. In charge of polishing levels, solving visual problem on environments, polishing in what they lacked, material, modeling, composition, color or lighting.

Toy Figurines/ Next gen assets for Psychonauts, Brutal Legend-Responsible for leading and solely creating 14 high detail characters, and part of the 3D printing process for toy making, using existing low resolution assets.-Coordinating with factory for pantone colors and manufacturingMaya, Photoshop and Zbrush

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Artist.Pitch own game project to be voted by the public.In charge of making characters for Black Lake a filmed\televised 2 week project by 2 player productions

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Artist.In charge of modeling sets.In charge of sculpting in Zbrush for hero pieces

Senior ArtistCreating Stylized 3D Environments and Characters for an interactive storybook. -The 3D sculpts blended with the 2D drawings to make them come alive. It was very important to deliver models that looked and felt exatcly like the hand drawn characters and environments.

Finished this fun game for Halloween! Ships soon! Worked on environments on a team of 2 environment artists. Had full control of assets, from mockup, gameplay, modeling, at times texturing, rigging, animating, to hooking it up in script. Worked on majority of the lighting for the game including some climate work in cooperation with our FX artist.

• Next-gen AAA tittle, heavy metal themed, open world, action, strategy, driving involved
• Ability to multi-task between several concurrent projects, efficiently change gears when necessary, complete tasks on-time while continuing to support downstream departments
• Manage and serve as point person for Set Dressing and Pre-Visualization of the world prior to production
• Responsible for world creation, environments, set dressing, prop art, layout, composition, rigging, landscape terrains and foliage for entire duration of Brutal Legend’s production
• Responsible for rigging and animating assets
• Responsible for creating mesh destructions with animations, mesh swaps, rubble meshes with physics plus p.FX

• AAA title, platformer, adventure, casual game, stylized art
• Played a significant role as a World Builder for Psychonauts by taking on various responsibilities throughout the entire project production, such as environment art, game design, and lighting
• Assumed additional responsibility of the design team when the design team was released from the project and worked directly with the Lead Production Designer for the remainder of the project

• AAA title, platformer, adventure, casual game, stylized art
• Handcrafted 3D models to meet each individual art theme and match the unique style of the dream worlds.

Arts, Entertainment, And Media Management

Goal of this class to paint with a great color understanding and emphasis in color and lighting.

Arts, Entertainment, And Media Management

Fundamentals of storytelling through scriptwriting with Corey Mandel

Education record

Apply lighting in 3D animated field with Blue Sky\Pixar veterans

Arts, Entertainment, And Media Management

The goal of this course is to give entertainment artists and students the ability to engage their audience through the design of.

Figure Drawing - Painting

Mentored by Carl Dobsky

Zbrush Character Modeling

Activities and Societies: Taught by industry veteran Cesar Dacol Jr. - anatomy - model creation - retopology - zspheres - zmapper.

Barchelors, Media Arts And Animation