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Carlsbad, Ca, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Unannounced Project- Collaborated with the Game Director and Narrative team to establish an eye catching art style that met both the narrative tone and gameplay needs of the project.- Screened and interviewed candidates for staffing up.- Developed custom shaders and worked with engineers to expand Unity’s URP to support a custom lighting model that matched our desired art style.- Collaborated with artists and designers to layout production pipelines for animation, level design, ui flow, cinematics, and a modular character system that found the best compromise between the needs of design, art, and production.- Created character concepts.- Created animatics to visualize gameplay concepts, ui flows, and storytelling methods.- Provided direction and feedback for all visual assets (Characters, Environments, UI, VFX, etc.)- Created prototype VFX, Character model and Environment assets to demonstrate both style and workflow approaches.

Launched Demos: Chimera, VerbworldWorked on site with the Stadia Advanced Research Team coordinating and overseeing the art production on multiple projects.Project Chimera: - Collaborated with ML engineers to design and implement a pipeline for creating ML generated art.- Created a custom dataset that paired renders of animal models from an unlimited range of camera angles, lighting conditions and environments with segmentation maps via. Blueprint scripts in UE4.Modeled and textured 34 animal models for use in the creation of the dataset.- Created shaders that composited and post processed the ML generated creatures with separate ML created environments and UI elements ensuring that their appearance remained cohesive.- Created UI elements for the gameplay demo.- Created and maintained production documents to communicate the evolving workflow to both internal and external partners.Project Verb World:- Collaborated with the Project Lead to create an appealing, accessible aesthetic that fit within our time and budget constraints.- Created post processing shaders to achieve the demos cel shaded look.- Created a weather and color palette / material system that would allow the exterior and interior of the environment to change as the Fox’s semantic AI reacts to user input.- Designed the Fox character and Scene.- Modeled the Fox character and interior props.- Art directed and oversaw the production of all other art assets. (animation, exterior props, etc.)

San Francisco, California, Us

- Defined, owned, and unified a common technological art pipeline for a series of experimental AR games produced in collaboration with Google ATAP.- Collaborated with numerous external teams and the studio Art Director to ensure that the art pipeline would meet their specific projects needs while maintaining a cohesive style with other projects in production in addition to meeting performance criteria for mobile devices.- Created prototype and final assets for particle, shader, and post process effects in Unity.- Created prototype and final assets for in game models, textures, and UI layouts / elements.

Tustin, California, Us

- Managed a multidisciplinary team of artists across multiple studios to produce a visually rich, engaging, and optimized VR RPG.- Collaborated with Designers, Engineers, Producers, and Narrative staff to ensure that all art production remained in step with the projects needs and timelines.- Provided technical and artistic style guides to provide artist with a clear frame work to create from while also empowering them to bring their own expertise to project.- Served as the 'Art Dad' helping to mentor and guide junior artists on how to best work in a collaborative environment and achieve their long term goals.- Researched techniques and implemented best practices for producing high quality and performance friendly visuals in UE4's implementation of VR.- Contributed directly to the creation of a wide variety of assets as needed. (Concept Art, VFX, Cinematics, Level Layouts,Scene Lighting, marketing materials, etc.)

- Defined and maintained the visual style of multiple projects across a variety of genres.- Produced concept art, models, textures, and fx for all ongoing and new properties at Limbic.- Collaborated closely with programmers to produce ui mock ups and final implementations.- Managed external artists to ensure that all assets were delivered in a timely fashion while also meeting visual and technical specifications.- Provided marketing assets for use with app store and social media promotions.- Storyboarding, video editing, and post production for animated and video trailers.

- Primary external relations contact and responsible for all press releases and press interaction. - Established the visual style and produced all the art assets for Empire of the Eclipse. - Worked closely with programmers to ensure not only that the game looked great but could run on the full range of iOS devices. - Collaborated with programmers to design and iOS interface that is clean and easy to use while providing the depth and wealth of options needed by an online 4x strategy game. - Co-designed core gameplay mechanics with the programming team technology trees to resource and combat system balance.

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

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Cary, Nc, Us

Character Artist

Character Artist

Character Artist