Steve Young Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles

Asset creation for vehicles and hard surface game content. Production of assets from concept to game ready. This is a role that I have been doing for about 7-8 months prior, but only now was assigned the title and position for.Standard artist tasks and responsibilities such as: concept review as part of a team, high resolution modeling with sub-d and sculpting, low resolution modeling for use in game, UV mapping, texture baking, texture painting, asset rigging, and general asset memory footprint management. Work with PBR and Photogrammetry for creating content for games.Additional work includes pipeline innovations like minor tools and scripts for use in Maya to expedite content creation processes. Outsource submission review and feedback is also provided to coordinators for delivering to external development vendors.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Rigging of assets for in game use by level builders, animators, and scripters.Blockout authoring for outsource projects.Modeling of assets from blockout stage through completed asset and integration into game.Maya tools scripting with python.Building, testing, and distribution of outsource tools packages for use by vendors.Troubleshooting support of outsource tools.Review of outsource vendor deliveries as a point of quality control.Documentation of outsource guides, pipeline procedures, and expectations of submissions from vendors.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Asset integration, destructive asset authoring, rigging, and outsource asset internal polishing.Tools script authoring.Review and feedback of outsource submissions.Outsource submission quality checks.Documentation of assets, procedures, and Outsource expectations.

Orlando, Florida Area

Black Banshee Studios - Entertainment games for: iOS, Android, and PCProjects: Bacon: Two Cops and a Burger Shop-Performed risk analysis and production scheduling for projects.-Broke large tasks into smaller meaningful sub-tasks.-Performed the duties of SCRUM master for multiple teams.-Worked with producers to define project objectives and overall scope of project.-Oversaw internal and external resources to meet production deadlines and ensure coherent project vision.

Orlando, Florida Area

CelleC Games - Serious and Educational GamesProjects: Lore Keeper/ Cell Squadron/ We Walked In Darkness-Oversaw all aspects of production for studio from design phases through final approval.-Built and maintained production schedules on 3 projects.-Organized 12 person team to establish realistic expectations for milestones.-Conducted production meetings to resolve issues and communicate project information.-Coordinated 10 person external resource team on 2 projects.

Orlando, Florida Area

CelleC Games - Serious and Educational GamesProjects: Lore Keeper/ Cell Squadron/ We Walked In Darkness-Modeled 3D both humanoid and inorganic models.-Arranged UV Maps for texturing.-Created both hand painted and PBR textures for models.-Created light weight models for 3D projects.-Produced pipeline assets in an iterative process allowing for critique and refinement.

Inventory assessments, sales, customer relations, and product management.

Master’S Degree, Master Of Science In Game Design, Graduate

Activities and Societies: CelleC Games, Black Banshee Studios, UX testing. Master's Program that focused on the advanced practices.

Bachelor’S Degree, Fine And Studio Arts

B.A. Fine Arts - Studio Art Areas of Study: -Color Theory -Composition -Drawing -Life Drawing -Painting -Ceramics -Sequential Art -Graphic.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, East Asian Studies

Areas of Study: -International Relations -Japanese Popular Culture -Japanese Literature -East Asian History

Associate'S Degree, Japanese Language And Literature

Areas of study: -Conversational Japanese Grammar and Language Studies -Beginning Business Japanese Language

Associate Of Science - As, Political Science And Government

Areas of study: -International Relations -Local Governments -Bureaucracy -Media Politics -World Politics

Study Abroad, Japanese Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Japanese Language Studies Japanese Cultural Studies Study abroad session in Hokkaido Japan for the 2011 academic.

General Studies

General Studies for transfer credit to the University of Nebraska.

High School Diploma