Nick Brown Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• As Art Director I provide direction, documentation, feedback, and oversee techart R&D. Our studio only has 3 internal artists with the vast majority of art being produced by outsourcing contractors/vendors under my.
• Handle visual direction from pre-pro concepts to polished 3D production including assetization, scheduling, budgeting, staff assignment, art direction, and process/workflow documentation.
• Use and maintain Jira, Confluence, Basecamp, and custom Google Sheets scripting for production tracking, documentation, feedback, and global production management
• Oversee handoffs and collaboration for work between multiple departments including prototyping, concept, VFX, and scripting
• Team formation, oversight, work allocation across internal & external teams
• Establishing workflow/processes and documentation to streamline asset production and remove bottlenecks

Portland, Oregon Area

• Art Director with Producer duties including assetizing work orders, budgeting, scheduling and production assignment, working with multiple leads and departments. Environment art focused, created hero art, feedback &.
• Rocksteady Studios - Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League: Managed hub environment production including onboarding and training team, broke down broad-strokes concepts and direction in assets, maintained asset.
• Turtle Rock Studios - Back 4 Blood: Oversaw production for structural and prop environment art for multiple levels, handled team and asset assignments, budgeting, scheduling, and production tracking
• Gearbox Software - Borderlands 3 Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Tech Art

Portland, Oregon Area

• I stepped away from management during this period to travel and take care of some family. I was working remotely creating hardsurface 3D art assets for the following titles:
• Gearbox, Borderlands 3: High and lowpoly modeling for weapons, loot crates, shields, and the Maliwan sphere robots.
• Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4: High and lowpoly modeling for character accessories and material creation for several character skins.
• 343 Industries, Halo Infinite: High and lowpoly modeling for various character accessories.
• WB Games Montréal, Unnanounced Project: Creating various high and lowpoly models and textures.
• Wargaming.net, World of Tanks (console): Created detailed textures/materials for a number of different tanks. I ended up being proficient enough that I was contracted to produce a set of video tutorials detailing the.

• As an Art Manager, I oversaw production of 3D asset and 2D concepts for a variety of projects using hybrid teams of mostly outsourcing contractors/vendors. We would receive work orders from clients, and I was.
• Carbine Studios, WildStar: Managed player skins and weapon production
• Crytek, Homefront 2 The Revolution: Managed environment prop production
• Playground Games, Forza Horizon 2: Managed prop and terrain production, oversaw pipeline and tools development for internal teams, implemented new asset tracking, scheduling, and assignment tools
• Red 5 Studios, FireFall: Managed character, vehicle, and environment art production from concept to final 3D
• WB Games Montreal, Batman: Arkham Origins: Managed environment asset productionid Software, Doom title (unreleased): Managed environment asset production