Mark Hamer possesses expertise in character animation, animation, photoshop, video games, traditional animation and 24 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "All Art Directors are different, but Mark is distinguished by a deep understanding of the entire pipeline. His experience in concept art and animation along with being a quick study who is always learning means he can directly dive into all areas as needed from rigging issues to modeling to textures to relighting. He understands both the deeply technical side of art production for games through a myriad of toolsets as well as how to set a vision for look and feel. In Minecraft Story Mode for Netflix, Mark set a style target and grew an internal and external team to relight the entire game, as well as updating animations and mouth shapes, while fixing countless issues, and improving the environments. An ultimate collaborator, Mark proactively worked with engineering to augment our engine with unique enhancements for the platform. Hardworking, insanely knowledgeable, and pure pleasure to work with, Mark is the top of the top for Art Direction in my book. " and "Mark is a fantastic Art Director. I had the pleasure of working with him on the first Telltale video game to be on Netflix, Minecraft Story Mode. We worked together as a tight team re-defining what the user interactions would be and how to refine the visuals from the game to a streamline and slick interface to jive with Netflix. I could always bounce ideas of Mark and his critiques and advice were spot on to improving the work to a higher quality. Mark is also a handyman with all parts of game development, he can fix lighting bugs, environment, rigging, animations, etc. At Telltale we ran a small team for the Minecraft Netflix project and Mark was able to wear every hat to fix/improve/or otherwise see the product to the end. It was such a bright part of my day working with Mark and in a heartbeat I'd follow him again in whatever project he's on. "