Freelance digital artist, digital and printed war game cartography, mobile and PC UI design, hard body and character modelling, sculpting and texturing.Clients include:Academy Games,Slitherine,Hex War,Hunted Cow Games,Western Civilization Games/Matrix Games,A-Sharp,Scorpio CGI,Crane Marketting,Ark VFX

Shenandoah was a small start-up creating modernised classic style wargames for iOS and other platforms. Along with Industry veterans, Eric Lee Smith, Jeff Dougherty and Nick Karp, I co-founded the company in 2011. The main studio (which grew to 14 exceptionally talented programmers, designers and artist) was based in Philadelphia, USA, while I ran the art side from my home in the UK. Initially I was both Art Director and Artist and later managed a second artist.We released three successful Universal iOS games on the appstore, Battle of the Bulge, Drive on Moscow and Desert Fox and had two more in the same series and a new IP series in production when the studio was sold to Slitherine Games in 2014.The company and games garnered an enviable reputation in a very short amount of time and regularly received game of the month, game of the year and innumerable fives star ratings. Our first game, Battle of the Bulge won two coveted Charles S. Roberts awards for best Strategic Computer Game and Best Computer Game Graphics.

Ark VFX consisted of 8 full time staff - a manager, technical artist/animator and six artists covering a spread of skills. As a generalist I was involved in and responsible for modelling, texturing, shading, sculpting, lighting, rendering, render management and compositing.Software:Lightwave, Maya, Fusion, Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop,Illustrator, Zbrush, Mudbox,Pixar RendermanClients included:Saatchi and Saatchi (Singapore),Kelloggs,Ferrero,Jameson,Adidas,SEGA,Reflections/Ubisoft/AtariCodemasters,Creative Assembly/SegaEvolution Studios/Sony CE.Blitz Games,

Exo: Low and high resolution character modelling and texturing. Some environment modelling. Marketing material.Bionicle: Low and high resolution character modelling and texturing of 130+ characters.Various demos: Character and set decoration modelling and texturing.Software: Lightwave,Photoshop,Premier,After Effects,3DSMax.Games: Exo,Bionicle,Many demos including Zorro, Star Wars, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

When I first joined Acclaim I was tasked with creating the environment models for a new Xbox water racing game but soon they were keen to use my FMV experience for their main project, Shadowman, with in-game cutscenes created in Excel and 3ds Max. Later I was moved onto pre-production for Forsaken 2, creating promotional and concept work as well as creating a long introductory video to be shown at E3.Software:Lightwave,Premier,3ds Max,Photoshop,Excel.

By this time I knew games/VFX was the direction I wanted to go in. Pixelogic offered me an opportunity to develop the pre-rendered work I'd started at John Moores University in a much more exciting and energetic environment. Our first game was released on PS1 in July 1998.I was responsible all the pre-rendered cut scenes, managing the company computers as a renderfarm and worked closely with our producer at Interplay to create marketing materialsSoftware: Lightwave,Photoshop,Premier

I'd taught myself 3D modelling and after a few related projects with Sony Psygnosis and the MOD was keen to explore it further. I put freelancing on ice and joined a small team at the university to create tutorial content for the Biology and Earth sciences department, using Director and 3DStudio4. My responsibilities were to interpret briefs and develop suitable training material utilising either 3D or 2D illustration and animation.Software:Photoshop,Director,3D Studio 4,Truspace.

To improve my business skills when I first left university I joined a business training course and soon was working with a local company, Rees Design Associates. A few months in and I was offered partnership. Great for my confidence but at the time I was too inexperienced. I decided to go freelance and retained Rees Design and later Freehand Design as my main clients. I've worked freelance on and off ever since.