Namit Lavekar Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

• As a Senior Game Artist at Koolhaus Games, I was involved in developing some major game-titles on iOS and Android platform.
• My role consisted of creating 3D characters, props & textures as well as developing UI style using Photoshop and Unity.
• Contributed towards mentoring junior artists and R&D and tool development to streamline our development process.
• Streamlined proper art-processing pipeline with correct folder structures, naming conventions and file-formats.
• Worked with Art-Director to manage certain art distribution tasks and discussing various efficient ways to produce good quality art in short amount of time.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Created character and prop textures
• Modeled and textured weapons and some props.

• Textured Props for an Android Game.
• Designed and created complete UI art for an iOS Game.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• As a member of Environment Art team, my work profile not only consists of creating environment art props, models and textures, but most importantly creating an exciting game play.
• Lent a major hand in restructuring terrains and tracks meshes & adding interesting game play, by adding jumps, rails, trees and various gameplay props.
• Worked on making the terrain visually appealing using shaders and tools.

• Ghost Harvest (Feb’11 – March’11) Platform: i-phone & i-pad & Publisher: EASingle handed concept & designing the Visual Target of the UI style and color palette.
• Mixology Application for Bombay Sapphire (Nov’10 – Feb’11) Platform: FlashModeled, Textured, Rendered and post-processed all of the Cocktail drink renders.Animation for UI transitions in Flash
• Various Online Pogo Games (Aug’10 – Dec’10) Platform: FlashResearch and develop various efficient Art conversion Pipelines.Training the Graphic Tech's on use of Flash & the Art Pipeline.
• Unreleased titles for WiiConcept art, Modelling and texturing of Environment Props & Game Trophies. Designing Art Style & implementation of the entire UI System.Visual effects
• Triple Crown Championship Snowboarding (Feb 2010, Publisher: Destineer Games)Modelling and texturing of Environment Props & Game Trophies. Designing & implementation of the entire Front End System.
• Word Jong Wii Party (Jan 2009, Publisher: Destineer Games) Concept art, Designing & Documentation of the Art Style Guide to be outsourced.In game cut scene animations, Particle effects.R&D support for building of the.

• Conceptualized & designed graphics for some of Indiagames famous mobile games to Date such as Predator, Bruce Lee, Cricket world Cup, sexy pool, Serenity & Pub Games etc.
• Lead the Art Team for developing amazing Game Art, as well as Art Work for Game Promotions; both web & print.
• Hold a major hand in developing innovative and optimized techniques for Efficient, but Eye-catching game-art for wireless games.
• Independently created the first successful 2D Tile based MAP for the mobile game Predator- First map based action game at IG.
• Independently managed and cracked The Palette Fundamentals for changing the color of sprite during runtime. This really helped Programmers & Artists alike.

Comp 2501 - Programming Fundamentals Part 2 (Java)

Comp 1516 - Programming Fundamentals Part 1 (Python)

Post Graduate Diploma, 3D Animation For Games

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Business Administration And Management, General