Molly Warner Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Currently working on BioShock 4 - creating levels, models, modular kits, and world-building.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Worked as a Senior Environment Artist on Overwatch 2.- Created iconic maps, architecture, and props for dozens of maps with a focus on Overwatch quality art, gameplay needs, and level performance.- Worked closely with the level designers to ensure engaging level layouts, clean line of sights, collisions, and map flow were perfect for Overwatch's complex competitive play.- Lead efforts on the new PvE maps and Events maps as the main map artist. Supported special needs for new events and new gameplay modes.- Worked with Tech Art, Concept Art, and Narrative teams to design and create beautiful assets in the Overwatch style that fit within performance and tech needs.- Helped Lighting in many ways across the maps.- Frequently playtested the new maps / heroes and gave feedback to help the direction of the game.- Fixed many bugs, polished old maps, and raised the standard of all maps to a higher quality with reworks.

Austin, Texas Area

- Worked as an Environment Artist on Hogwarts Legacy, an open-world Harry Potter game (released in Feb 2023).- Worked as a world-builder and architecture artist on New World, the fantasy MMO by Amazon Games that released in September 2021 (using Lumberyard engine). In the new Brimstone Sands region: Designed and modeled many building pieces and brought a dozen towns, outposts, and points of interest from block-out stage through final polish stage.- Created several finished environments (from concepts) for an unannounced game using UE5.- Worked as a world-builder & architecture lead / prop artist on an unannounced game using UE4.- Worked on new remastered HD maps for World of Tanks (Live Oaks and Tundra). Also worked on the Halloween 2017 event map "Leviathan's Invasion."~- Created realistic and stylized 3D props, large assets, architecture, and modular environment kits based on photo reference and my own design ideas. Took assets from the idea stage to the final in-game asset including model, UV's, textures, collision, and LOD's.- World-building with UE4 / UE5 or the propriety map editor and tools. Included set dressing, vertex painting, terrain painting/sculpting, foliage/decal/VFX placement, creating custom collision, lighting, polish, and map iteration based on feedback.- Frequently playtested the games with co-workers and provided feedback for the maps and gameplay.

Austin, Tx

- Environment Artist on Star Wars: The Old Republic. Worked on the expansions "Knights of the Fallen Empire" and "Knights of the Eternal Throne." Also worked on quite a few raids and PvP maps.- Set dressing, level layout, and world-building, including terrain creation, lighting, and post-processing.- Modular asset and texture creation, and prop/level optimization.- Worked closely with level designers and cinematic artists on environments to meet their needs for gameplay and camera shots.- Provided in-depth feedback from frequent play-testing, and also did bug fixing.- Worked with external outsourcers in creating high-quality assets for the game that fits our style.

Greater San Diego Area

- Hand-painted textures for the characters based on concepts and made 3D model/UV fixes for characters in Marvel's Avengers Academy game.- Worked together with a team and made changes based on iterative feedback from the client.- Kept teammates organized and met daily and weekly deadlines based on the client's needs.

Commissioned to design and draw characters, character sheets, digital illustrations, concept art, and professional graphics for businesses and websites.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Majored in Game Art & Design

Richmond, Ca

- Illustrated and animated characters, backgrounds, and props in Photoshop and Adobe Flash for two interactive storybook games for the iPad. Titles released: The Boy and the Bears- Worked collaboratively with a team of artists and programmers to implement assets.- Summer Internship