Matthias Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Altenburg, Germany

I create high quality materials, tweakable substances with exposed parameters, decals and smart materials in different styles from realistic to cartoony, for clients ranging from AAA to Indie. Beyond that i work on my own tools and marketplace items. Aside from materials i'm spezialized in terrain and vegetation assets. I help clients with consultation for.

Working on all aspects of environment art for the levels from materials, skybox, foliage to props and vehicles. Also responsible for level design art passes and occasionally weapon models.Since 2016 strong focus on creating materials and decals.

As a Senior Level Designer my job is to help other Level Designers in polishing and finishing their maps towards the release of the game.I do art passes, polishing, optimizing, lighting, bugfixing etc. and give my expertise where necessary.

My responsibilities as Level Designer for InterWave include the design and creation of multiplayer maps from early concepts to the final polish, including lighting.Furthermore i am responsible for the direction of the environment art. This means i have to do research and have to communicate ideas with the environment artists and concept artists assigned to.

As a level designer for this company my task was to design layouts, script gameplay, to polish the levels visualy and to optimize them performance wise.I worked on a great deal of different levels for different titles, including some prototypes.

As a level designer i was responsible for layout and mapping of ins_baghdad, a map that was released with the initial release of Insurgency. I also created a lot of custom content and environment art for this map and others.Furthermore i cleaned up brushwork, polished and optimized two other maps.

When Jeremy Blum was temporarely unable to lead the mod i hopped in to fill the gap that he left.As project leader my job was to organize and manage the development team and the production of the game. Communication with the team and public happend via internet (irc, icq, msn, forums etc.).

As the Lead Level Designer i was responsible for the look and feel of all maps, a constant quality level and hiring/managing other Level Designers on the team.Personaly i mapped the maps gfm_saintlo and gfm_merderet which both were released in the initial release of German Front Mod in 2005.Since this was a amateur project communication happend over the.