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Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Glendale, California, United States

Responsibilities include maintaining visual fidelity of optimized art assets with a focus on artistic and technical aspects of development.

Costa Mesa, California, United States

Crypt Arena Map Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) My responsibilities:- Creating engaging battle arena multiplayer maps for Fortnite with a blend of creativity, strategic thinking, and attention to player experience. - Designing concept art for the level theme, blocking out grey box layout, and creating final art assets.- Building modular assets maximizing opportunities for reuse and technical efficiency in unreal engine.

Costa Mesa, California, United States

A recreation of the Indiana Jones Adventure Attraction, Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland in Anaheim California. This is a fan made tribute to the attraction designed for a virtual reality experience.My responsibilities included:- Oversaw art pipeline of high quality art assets using PBR texturing- Modeled, textured, and optimized 3D assets and materials for best performance in Virtual Reality on PC and on the Oculus Quest 2- Setup Lighting for both realtime and baked lighting effects- Designed and implemented the VR experience using the Unity Timeline editor- Communicated the creative vision with the Team and coordinated tasks to achieve the level of fidelity desired for the final VR experience

El Segundo, California, United States

Art Lead - School Of Dragons MMOMy responsibilities included:- Communicating with the Producer, Art Director, and Level Designers to create level art and environments that support the gameplay and story. - Plan scheduling of internal Art Resources in an agile system to meet deadlines.- Overseeing outsourced Art production by communicating art design notes to outsourced art studios- World Design: Taking worlds from grey box layouts to final art.- Playtest and iterate on game level art to improve the player experience.- Modeling of world layout and world assets.- Texturing of world assets.- Building Terrain layout using the Unity Terrain editor.- Designed and illustrated Concept Art for outsourced props and world assets.- Designed and textured unique Dragon skin textures.- Set up world lighting for light baking using Bakery.

El Segundo, California, United States

My responsibilities included:- World Design - Design worlds with level designers from grey box to final art.- Modeling world assets and props.- Texturing world assets and props.- Lighting of all game levels and worlds.

El Segundo, California, United States

My responsibilities included:- Converting Jumpstart PC games to the Nintendo Wii- World Design- Modeling- Texturing- Lighting

El Segundo, California, United States

My responsibilities included:- Communicating with the Producer, Art Director, and Level Designers to create level art and environments that support the gameplay and story. - Plan scheduling of internal Art Resources to meet deadlines.- Communicate with India Studio team to maintain a cohesive art style for the game.- World Design- Modeling- Texturing- Concept Art- Lighting design for use in light baking.

El Segundo, California, United States

My responsibilities included:- Design of 2D pixel art for gameplay assets and backgrounds.- Design, modeling, and texturing of 3D assets.

El Segundo, California, United States

My responsibilities included:- World Design - Taking the Disneyland concept of layout with a main hub surrounded by theme lands.- Modeling world art assets and buildings- Texturing- Concept Art of world décor assets and world environment designs- Lighting of levels for light baking.

Orange County, California Area

Curated and produced Pop Culture themed art shows.- Rat Trap: Disneyland Parody Show- SteamPop: Pop Culture through Steampunk Goggles- Mega Mouse: A Tribute to the Empire Started by a Mouse- PopCade: A Tribute to Video Games- Burton: A Tim Burton Tribute Show- Time After Time- Save Ferris: A John Hughes Tribute Show- Monsters and Maniacs: Movie Monsters Show- Practically Perfect: A Mary Poppins Tribute- Sith Happens: An Unofficial Tribute to Star Wars- Foolish Mortals: Haunted Mansion Tribute show- Infinite Rick: Rick and Morty Tribute- Spielberg: Steven Spielberg Tribute Show- Unicorns & Chimichangas: Deadpool Tribute ShowCurrently we are involved in Art Shows at the Knott's Berry Farm Theme Park in Buena Park CA.- Tied Up in Knott's: Knott's Berry Farm Tribute show- Into the Fog: Scary Farm Art show

Costa Mesa, Ca

Virtual Screams in a brand I started to design immersive scary and weird experiences for Virtual Reality. Demos were shown at:- Scare LA Convention- Midsummer Scream ConventionHide and Seek Demo- Shown at Scare LA summer 2014Phobos Labs Demo: What Do you Fear?- Shown at Scare LA summer 2015 and 2016- Shown at Midsummer Scream Convention in Long Beach Summer 20016, 2017, and 2018In my role as Lead Designer and Artist my responsibilities include.- Design and building of all the levels and environments for the VR experiences. - Management of the VR project development.- Planning and presentation where the demos are shown.- Recruitment of other talent for various roles in the production.

Anaheim, California, United States

3D Artist/Animator for "Fantasmic!" Barge Driver Training Video project.Worked with the Fantasmic show stage management to design and build a virtual version of various sequences of the show. The goal being to simulate the barge paths in 3D rendered movies to be used as a visual aid for training of new Barge Drivers.My responsibilities:- Building the river environment and river stage based off the theme park blueprints and photo reference.- Modeling and texturing the show barges based on measurements and photo reference provided.- Animating each show barge path to the show soundtrack for each show sequence. - Rendering out multiple camera angles for each barge path.- Compiling all the rendered clips into a DVD format presentation for playback during barge training sessions.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Animation instructor for animation workshops at Los Angeles middle schools.Responsible for instructing teams of Middle School Children in the production of short 20-30 second Anti Tobacco cartoons. This was done in collaboration with the LA School District and the awards ceremony was hosted by various Animated character voice actors.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Costume Artist for Spider-Man 2Responsibilities:-Application of Latex web patterns on the Spider-Man costume-Application of Chest Spiders onto the finished Costume

Hollywood Ca

Costume Artist for Spider-Man Responsibilities:-Application of Latex web patterns on the Spider-Man costume

Environment Design

Bachelor Of Fine Art, Entertainment Art / Animation

Activities and Societies: Pencil Mileage club, Video instruction from Warner Bros. Feature Animation.

Theme Park Design

Participated in the Disneyland summer Sorcerer's Workshop with Disney Imagineering. I was concept and storyboard Artist on the Restaurant.