Nate Hawbaker Email & Phone Number

Kenmore, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Provide strategic guidance and direction to multiple semi-autonomous business units involved in graphics development, ensuring a cohesive vision across all projects.• Collaborate with game directors, art directors, and stakeholders to establish and maintain a consistent graphics direction and methodology that aligns with the overall studio vision.• Work closely with graphics developers, including graphics engineers and technical artists, to guide their work and align it with the games' artistic vision and technical requirements.• Oversee the development and implementation of the graphics roadmap, considering short-term objectives and long-term goals while maintaining the integrity of the Bungie graphics ecosystem.• Provide servant leadership and motivation by fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation among graphics developers to enhance project quality and coherence.• Work closely with project managers and production teams to ensure efficient and coordinated graphics development processes aligned with project timelines and goals.• Stay updated on advancements in real-time graphics, rendering techniques, and hardware capabilities to evaluate their potential impact on the studio's projects.• Collaborate with external partners and vendors to leverage their expertise and resources for studio and project goals.• Contribute to the studio's external business strategy by representing the studio at industry conferences, participating in press interviews, and cultivating relationships with strategic partners.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Provide vision and leadership for the team building Bungie's visual technologies--• Our team ensures that Bungie's next games have the technology needed to deliver visually stunning results.--• Drive the design, schedule, and help implement features end-to-end: DCC, tools, real-time rendering techniques, performance, memory, test creation, artist education, accessibility.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Presented at GDC the development of the Destiny 2 shading model.--• https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025290/Translating-Art-into-Technology-Physically• Liaison between graphics engineering and art development teams.• Handled press interviews about the Destiny 2 rendering pipeline• Built and fostered rendering development relationships with external studios• Helped implement and design Destiny 2 rendering features--• Analytic lighting--• Cloth BRDF and BTDF--• Gbuffer• Implement and standardize artist-facing shader design--• Deferred projection decals--• PBR material and IBL pipeline--• PBR artist education, documentation, and evangelizing• Created all water artwork in Destiny and participated in the design/implementation of water renderer• Helped implement item inspection UI system in Destiny and created all player-facing screens

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Acted as Bungie's first internal tools designer.• Involved with designing and helping implement all internal tools• Highlights:--• Shader graph editor (http://advances.realtimerendering.com/destiny/gdc_2017/index.html)--• Sequencer for in-game object setup--• Local content build configuration--• Modular player gear DCC authoring and management--• World editor--• Texture exporter--• Color picker--• All WPF/XAML control theme and icon design

• Mario Kart 7• Super Mario 3D Land• Pokémon Rumble Blast• Inazuma Eleven GO