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 direction. I work alongside and often bridge design, scripting & tools, gameplay engineering, tech art/VFX, and animation teams. My role also includes Producer duties including project planning, budgeting, and scheduling.● 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● Overseeing production of multiple art & tech art sub-teams, building direct reports into leadership roles● Working with department heads to plan production across multiple timeframes (annual, quarterly, milestones, sprints)● Organizing sprints according to milestone deliverables and team capabilities, maintaining realistic schedules

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 & direction for direct reports, process documentation and implementing new schedule & asset tracking analytics.I also created internal style and process/workflow guides to ensure our combined internal and international teams matched the visual and production style of each project. On a granular level, I identified pairs or trios of individuals who were skilled at complimentary parts of production and grouped them into smaller units. This allowed each individual to focus on aspects of production they enjoyed and were most skilled at, which led to boosted morale and productivity.Additionally, I created a variety of automated status charts as well as a robust script/formula generator in Google Sheets for the asset tracking software our studio was using. This allowed myself and other Producers/Managers in the studio to more rapidly establish new projects with custom phases, review breakpoints, and automated weekly status charts.• 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 tracking and timeboxing for milestone deliverables, oversaw and provided direction and feedback from concept to 3D art production• 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 texturing process using Quixel Suite.• Red 5 Studios, Firefall: Created high and lowpoly models for various character armor sets, equipment, and background level art.• Turtle Rock Studios, Evolve: Highpoly and lowpoly modeling for some mechanical components of the Torvald and Sunny characters.

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 responsible for creating asset breakdowns, budgets, and schedules, kickoff posts/reference, and then contacting outsourcers or external vendor teams (often international) to assign work and oversee production. I provided regular feedback through each stage of asset production, created production bibles, and then provided asset QA before integrating them into the clients' engines and submitted over Perforce or FTP.• 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• Bioware, Mass Effect 2 & 3: 3D asset modeling and in-engine materials• Microsoft, Kinect Adventures: Managed VFX production and R&D, oversaw World Building and environment art teams• Propaganda Games, Tron Legacy: Managing asset production budgets, scheduling, and assignments for environment art, world building, and materials• Demiurge Studios, Unannounced Title: Managed VFX production• TimeGate Studios, Section 8: Managed in-engine launch trailer production, assetization, budgeting, and scheduling for Gametrailers.com• Gearbox Software, Borderlands: Weapon art 3D modeling to ensure modular compatibility• Eat Sleep Play, Twisted Metal PS3: Minor 3D modeling• Harmonix Music Systems, The Beatles: Rock Band: Minor 3D modeling