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Austin, Tx, Us

Making delicious pizza from start to finish in my pizza oven.

The Interwebs, Us

Working on The Walking Dead Empires

Seattle, Wa, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

• Leading, managing, and mentoring senior and junior artists. Driving environments and best practices to improve the visual quality of Neverwinter Online• Worked closely with the Art Director to establish visual targets and define the look and feel of all environments • Met with team and production daily to discuss tasks and schedule needed work across multiple teams and sprints • Created environment outsourcing boards for environment props, implemented feedback on outsourced concept art • Worldbuilding and asset creation using Cryptic Studios proprietary game engine, 3DS Max, Zbrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter and Photoshop

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

• Worked closely with writers and design to create story driven content from pre-production to shippable.• Modeled and textures assets using 3DS Max, Substance and Photoshop. • Worldbuilding using Cryptics proprietary game engine• Helped define the pipeline and implement an entire relighting of the game for console and PC

Saint-Mandé, Île-De-France, Fr

AC: Unity (PC, PS4, XBox One)• Worldbuilding using proprietary game engine, composition layout and basic lighting in the Marais district• Modeled and textured 3D assets as needed using 3DS Max and Photoshop

Saint-Mandé, Île-De-France, Fr

Watch Dogs (PC, PS4, XBox One)• Responsible for layout, composition and basic lighting in multiple areas of Chicago• Sole artist on a large area of the world to improve the quality and help define the look • Worked closely with designers on multiple single and multiplayer areas and help to improve layout and gameplay

Us

Unit 13 (PS Vita) - Senior Environment Artist | Lighting Artist-Level, lighting and asset artist on multiple levels for Unit 13.SOCOM 4 (PS3) - Lead Environment Artist-Lead environment artist of strike team "November". Managed and worked closely with my team of environment, asset artists and designers to build multiple single and multiplayer maps using Maya, Photoshop and our proprietary game engine. Helped to direct look and feel, asset creation, placement of assets for game play, lighting and optimization.MAG (PS3) - Senior Environment Artist | Asset Artist-Environment artist on multiple levels, including 1 256 player map. Worked closely with design and concept artist to build levels using our proprietary game tools-Created multiple assets for MAG using Maya 8 and 2010. Created materials for assets that include normal, specular, dirt and reflective textures.SOCOM 2, SOCOM 3, SOCOM: CA, Fire Team Bravo 2 (PS2, PSP) - Environment | Asset Artist

Worked with a small team as a 3D Asset and Environment Artist on an unreleased Dreamcast action/adventure game. Helped to create the original look and feel of the game using hand painted textures and unique models we conceptualized ourselves. I then moved onto an unreleased X-Box racing game creating assets and tracks using Maya and Photoshop.

Initially hired as a localization artist on Destruction Derby 64 I spent 2 months translating text of the UI screens and keeping track of hundreds of image files. I then moved onto creating concept character models and environments for Thief 3 on the Playstation 2 and an unreleased Nintendo 64 game using 3D Studio Max and Photoshop.

Sole artist for a small educational game company in Seattle. Responsible for creating 2D backgrounds and artwork as well as sprite animations.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Computer Animation

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