Mark Shahan Email & Phone Number

New Freedom, Pa, Us

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

- Lead a small team of remote, full-time artists creating strategy games for PC. 3dsMax, Substance Painter, Zbrush, Photoshop, Marvelous Designer, Unity

Hazard Play was a side project between myself and an engineer friend, with the goal of producing a mobile puzzle RPG using Unity Engine.

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Cyberdeck was a failed startup that I took part in with a few colleagues from other studios. We made 3 demo's with Unreal Engine and pitched to a few publishers but were unable to secure funding.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

- Built a team of talented character artists from the ground up and lead them through shipping ESO on four platforms. - Managed all aspects of the team's employment including hiring, discipline, scheduling/planning/tracking assets, performance reviews, career growth/advancement, and art direction. Very low turnover rate. - Directed the creation of nearly 200 unique armor sets and costumes, over 1000 weapons, and over 100 unique monsters. Currently 15 artists with over 2 dozen external contractors. - Worked with the Outsource Manager to generate guidelines and working scenes and reviewed all outsourced assets as they were submitted. - Designed most of the character-specific systems, and corresponding art pipelines and tools, and worked with engineers and tech artists to implement. Including: - Modular character system with 14 races and 2 genders. The system made it trivial to add new races and all armors/costumes/weapons would automatically work. - All of the functionality for ESO’s Character Creator. - Real-time character deformation system that supports artist-authored, user-controlled body and face deformation via a dedicated skeleton. - Compositing system with a predefined atlas that supports all characters being able to wear any costume without the need for additional art assets. Resulting composited characters were 1 draw call each. Designed and oversaw the creation of all tools needed to facilitate artists ability to easily work with this system. - Character tinting/dyeing system that works with all armor, costumes, and weapons, supports full material changes via modulating diffuse color, specular color, glossiness, Fresnel, and glow. Created a library of Photoshop actions to facilitate an efficient workflow for artists to correctly author assets to function with this system. - Created the pipeline for authoring monsters and oversaw relevant tools production.

Sparks, Maryland, Us

-Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution - Lead Character / Unit Artist-Sid Meier's Civilization IV - Lead Character / Leader Head Artist-Sid Meier's Railroads - art pipeline development / Train prototype and shader development-Sid Meier's Pirates - Senior Character Artist

-Having experience in a wide variety of disciplines allowed me to contribute creatively to many different projects in various capacities, from compositing and motion graphics for locally and nationally broadcast television commercials, video game character art and consulting, to commercial illustration and concept work.

I worked on two ill fated projects while at DreamForge Intertainment, Myst IV and Legend of the Sun. It's a bitter reality in the video game industry that everyone learns sooner or later, that sometimes you give your sweat and soul to a project and that's still not enough to make it onto the shelves of Walmart. I'm still proud of the work that our team accomplished while I was there (even if no one will ever see it), and many of us went on to Firaxis. So I guess in the end, the legacy and the experience are the reward, and that's enough for me.

New York, Ny, Us

-InFishermans Untimate River Challenge - Lead Character Concept Artist and Modeler-InFishermans Bass Hunter 64 - Additional art-Railroad Tycoon II PSX - Senior Artist-Jet Fighter Full Burn - Blue-screen compositing and visual effects (Flame Artist)-Black Dahlia - Blue-screen compositing and visual effects (Flame artist)-Black Dahlia - Environment modeling, texturing, and lighting-Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Print illustrations