Kurt Shoemaker Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas

Work with a diverse team of artists, programmers, instructional designers, and game designers to envision, gather, reference, and create high-end 3D models, real-time effects and visualizations, for use in various types of mobile applications, learning software, 3D simulations, games for training, virtual environments, and eBooks that are deployed to mobile, tablets, PC, & VR platforms. Work in an Agile team environment, participate in Sprint planning and daily stand-ups, and take direction from the art lead and producers. Take on other responsibilities in addition to hard-surface modeling tasks.

Manasquan, New Jersey

3D Modeling, UV's, textures, animations, rigs, level design, lighting, particle effects, materials. Helped create demos for marketing Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) based applications for use with products such as Microsoft HoloLens, and Oculus Rift.

Eatontown, Nj

Used Unreal Engine 3 and Unreal Engine 4 on a daily basis. Voice acted. Designed input layout for Xbox 360 controller and keyboard for I-GAME, rigged, and scripted vehicle content, vehicle cameras and Novedex PhysX for vehicles, designed and created levels, created necessary content (models textures, rigs, collisions, AnimTrees, PHaT assets, Data Modules and all VFX) within I-GAME. Imported weapons for usability in I-GAME. Created and imported in game visualizers and markers. Created master materials, and material effects. Took part in design discussions and meetings.

Orlando, Florida Area

Worked with a team of 16 Full Sail students over a five month development cycle to develop "Cosmic Mischief". The game is designed as a casual sci-fi arena shooter. During production, learned documentation such as asset creation listing, working from concept, and design outlines. Responsible for the creation of equipment, weapons, particle effects, and environmental assets.

Bachelor Of Science, Game Art

Activities and Societies: N/A21-month long program with a focus on creating art assets for games that ranges through animation, modeling.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa