Lance Powell Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Designed, implemented, and launched a highly transformative leadership and culture program for Executives and Teams.Tula means "balance" and is designed to reduce and remove the effects of Overwhelm, Burnout, Anxiety, Worry, Indecision, and Insecurity so we can win our day without resistance while providing Wisdom, Insight, and a framework for improving.

Los Angeles

FRACTIONAL ART DIRECTION & VISION BUILDINGProviding strategic art direction and creative vision-building for leading studios in the gaming industry.⚡ PUBG (Untitled AAA Tactical Shooter): Crafted the art vision and immersive world-building, delivering a comprehensive Art Bible, production design, and UX guidelines and established a cohesive, creative.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Projects: New World VG), Call of Duty Warzone (VG)Responsibilities: Directed the art and technical art for leading VR games.Created Art Bibles and leveraged Python and Shotgun for rapid prototyping & feedback.Impact: Empowered senior team members with resources and autonomy.Results: Increased milestone completion rates to 90%.Financial savings of $690K.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Projects: PWND (VG), Archangel VR (VG)Responsibilities: Directed the art and technical art for leading VR games.Created Art Bibles and leveraged Python and Shotgun for rapid prototyping & feedback.Impact: Empowered senior team members with resources and autonomy.Results: Increased milestone completion rates to 90%.Financial savings of $690K annually.

Santa Monica, CA

Projects: Star Citizen (VG)Responsibilities: Led a team of 100+ artists, steering the visual direction of the project.Developed and optimized technical content creation methods.Increased milestone completion rate from 35% to 75%, saving $3.5M annually.Aligned game visuals with production goals, enhancing player experience.Streamlined workflow strategies.

Greater New Orleans Area

Projects: Ice Age Village (VG), Cars iOS (VG), Spiderman iOS (VG), Cosmic Colony (VG), Minions (VG)Responsibilities: Directed artistic and technical vision for mobile and iOS games.Managed an international team of 70, promoting innovation and cross-collaboration.Impact: Increased milestone completion rate to 88% and reduced turnover to 6%.Results: Improved.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Medal of Honor 2007 (VG), Medal of Honor 2010 (VG) Responsibilities:Led creative and artistic vision for high-profile game projects.Managed teams of 30, ensuring visual excellence.Impact:Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve artistic alignment.Delivered Art Bible, Production Design Bible, and Marketing Art.Results:Enhanced milestone.

Hollywood, CA

Santa Monica, California

• Created skin, cloth, hair, and a range of CGFX shaders and textures
• Created real-time and pre-rendered matching light kits to speed up workflow

Culver City, California

• Provided Art Direction and Supervision on several simultaneous productions
• Provided client side services for pitch, including new business development
• Managed multiple artists on multiple productions
• Developed surfacing and texture pipelines
• Created Maya scripts to batch automate several repeating tasks
• Produced 3D assets, materials, lighting and matte paintings

Redwood City, California

• Provided surfacing and hero textures throughout several sequences of the film
• Provided material (shader) development in use by Surfacing team
• Collaborated with lighters to achieve desired assets and sequence surface look
• Crafted finely detailed texture maps for extreme close‐ups throughout the film

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Created highly detailed texture maps for Digital Doubles and hero characters.
• Produced Environment 3D Cyclorama matte paintings
• Provided python and Renderman scripts for production

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided Art Direction and Client Services on several multi-million-dollar interactive ad campaigns for Nissan & Infiniti
• Provided UI/UX design and Information Architecture across multiple IP’s
• Developed UI/UX, and production software training programs studio wide
• Led production pipeline development per IP across multiple studios
• Collaborated with business development on attracting new clients, including pitches, proposals and concept work
• Managed teams of various sizes consisting of designers and production artists

Freelance AD on Gex 64 (Nintendo 64)

• Provided coordination and task management between in house films
• Tasked studio engineers with tools for production
• Created dozens of scripts using Perl, Python, and cShell to test render integrity
• Developed tools used for building and debugging internal production tools