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Santa Fe, Nm, Us

Refract is a creative studio that works at the intersection of research, technology, and art. Clients include Snap Inc., Google, IKEA, and Meow Wolf.

Santa Fe, Nm, Us

At Meow Wolf, I creative directed a site-specific immersive play designed for Magic Leap headsets. The piece brought together 11 actors, 5 different XR experiences, set-building, and custom built interfaces. This play, "The Garage", was chosen as one of the top XR experiences of 2019 by Forbes. I spearheaded Meow Wolfs social AR initatives, explored emerging technologies during the pandemic to make exhibits safer for re-opening, worked on in exhibit HMD experiences, helped define emerging technology strategies for future Meow Wolf exhibits, lead prototyping teams, and assisted in securing and pitching partnerships.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Created and taught the module on Social AR for NYU Tandons Professional Certificate in UX & Emerging Interaction Design program, presented by Emeritus. Topics included an overview of the social AR landscape, creation tools available, the ethics of social AR, and creating an image tracker based museum AR experience using Spark AR.

Cupertino, California, Us

Yeaaaah I can't talk about that. Dang, it was really cool though!

I was responsible for taking grey box levels to in-game-ready art, including creating concept art, mood boards, color keys, and 3D assets, as well as working on lighting & particle systems in engine. After Monument Valley 2 I was a part of ideating, pitching, and prototyping new games.

When I came on, Dim Bulb needed to overhaul and streamline their 3D pipeline. I helped them redefine the 3D art style, organize their asset workflow, and set up production for outsourcing. I worked with technical artist Jonathan Topf to come up with shader solutions to translate Kellan Jetts’ unique paintings into a fully-explorable world.

San Francisco, California, Us

As Senior 3D artist for Luna, I built environment assets and levels in their entirety, creating the character models, lighting, particles, and VFX. Finding ways to translate Art Director Glenn Hernandez’s unique art style into a VR world was one of the most interesting visual problems I’ve worked on in my career.

Artist on the game World Zombination. Work on concepts, low poly and high poly modeling, texturing, and integration for both environments and characters.

Boston, Ma, Us

Worked on "Fantasia: Music Evolved". Responsible for creating both character and environment production and pre-production concepts. Created character models, working on low poly, high poly, texturing, and engine integration. Worked on gray boxing for levels and layout, and creating base geometry for levels.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for creating the concepts, turnarounds, low poly models, and textures for the characters of a mobile social game.Worked on environment concepts for the Farmville 2 IP. Assisted engineers and designers in the creation of game pitches with 1-2 week turnarounds.

Providence, Ri, Us

Sculpted, textured, retopologized and engine integrated weapons for the MMORPG Project Copernicus.

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

Helped develop the curriculum for AS220ʼs video game program at the Downtown Youth Studio. Taught game design to young women at the Rhode Island Training School and students at the UCAP charter school.

Worked on a small team to develop a 3D game designed to showcase a new soft-body physics engine.