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Seattle, Wa, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

San Francisco, Us

I help enable the technical art teams inside of Unity's R&D division. We provide the user voice that connects engineering to real-world production problems, we validate new technologies in production, and we push Unity to its limits to inspire our users. OThe team includes technical artists across all the major TA disciplines, from animation to graphics to tools development. We have TAs in the US, Canada, UK, Denmark and France. We have also delivered demos such as the showcase for Unity's URP renderer and Apple's Vision Pro.

Helped to incorporate the Technical Artists Forum, an umbrella group which hosts websites, online chat, and community events for technical artists.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I built the tech art department at Undead Labs from scratch (our very first lines of code were written on my laptop before we had funding or salaries!). Together we shipped three games in ten years: the breakout hit State of Decay, which we were able to make with only 22 people; Moonrise, an iOS title; and State of Decay 2 using the Unreal Engine and a team of 55. Our investments in tooling and engine modifications enabled us to ship a big open world game as an Xbox1X launch title with a small team. Along the way I covered both the business side -- dealing with vendors and publishers -- and the tech side, writing shader and engine code in HLSL and C++

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I wrote the monthly 'Pixel Pusher' column for Game Developer for a decade. I covered the technical, social and artistic issues that face working artists in the games industry.

Consulting services for game developers, particularly art tools, asset pipelines, workflow upgrades and new feature development.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

* Helping to develop new authoring tools for groundbreaking game content* Keeping the existing tools pipeline running efficiently* Researching new graphics tech and helping to evangelize it within the team* Training and education for artists

Created complete art bible for a nextGen online console title. Design included 3 player races, a complete alien environment, cultural background, and product-level design goals.Built prototype art pipeline, including Maya exporter, materials system, and MEL scripting infrastructureDesigned, modeled, textured and animated proof-of-concept art with shaders and physics supportPitched project to over 20 publishers, up to CEO level. Produced supporting presentation materials.Created schedules and asset tracking system for projected 18 person art team.Negotiated and supervised contracts with external vendors.

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* Designed the pipeline and art infrastructure for Zipper's flagship next gen project, including a world editor, character pipeline, and process automation.* Set the scope and direction for graphics technology investments and systems* Planned personnel and resource allocations for the project* Recruited key art staff* Produced next gen demo art

R&D work on the Granny animation middleware system; customer support and education; also did all the graphic identity work for the comapny

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Titles:Half Life, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress II, Counterstrike Also: Community support, R&D

Modeling and animating Mechs

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