Thomas Horwath Email & Phone Number

Laguna Hills, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Leading a team of talented artists to create awesome visual effects for Blizzard Entertainments Warcraft Rumble!

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

VFX Supervisor - Warcraft Arclight RumbleEstablishing and maintaining FX pipeline and workflows. Setting the bar and creating high quality assets and mentoring the FX department individual contributors.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Heroes of the Storm / Warcraft Arclight Rumble

Mission Viejo, California, Us

Ghostbusters Game: (http://store.steampowered.com/app/425310/) • Established and maintained a unique visual effect art style based on initial concept art. • Built a new optimized shader pipeline used by all artists in the creation and iteration of character, environment and VFX materials • Created and Implemented all main weapon and ability VFX for 4 unique Ghostbusters • Created all enemy and boss VFX, including abilities, impacts and deaths • Devised and organized a simple and flexible destructible system for breakable environment assets, as well as creating all environmental and ambient VFX

Mission Viejo, California, Us

Unannounced Project.• Creating and developing real time visual FX for a AAA game. Responsible for all Character, environment, atmosphere, and UI FX.• Working with tech departments to expand and enhance our tools and feature sets.• Particle systems, Animated textures, Geometry Modeling and Animation, Lighting, Design Implementation.

Platform R • Creative Director responsible for level creation, enemy implementation, user experience, story elements, gameplay VFX etc.• Managed team of 10 industry veterans from initial project conception and continuing through development.• Brand development, social networking, publisher relations and media point of contact.

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Unannounced AAA franchise on a Next Gen mobile platform.• Responsible for Level Design, Story Flow, Documentation.• Implementation of gameplay elements, puzzles, combat and story.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Cave Story 3D• Rated one of the best games on the Nintendo 3DS with an average metacritic rating above 80%Senior Artist:• Crafted many of the levels in 3D based on the original 2d sprite versions.• Implemented pixel lighting and VFX for all environments and interactive objects.• Helped design unique new levels in addition to re-imagining the classic 2D game in stereoscopic 3D.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Suze Orman's Money Game• Senior designer responsible for game design documentation, gameplay design and financial information integration.

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Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic DestructionCreative Design:• 7 of 8 Boss Designs• 6 of 8 Level designs• Unique puzzle and object designsTechinical Design:• Scripting implementation for Bosses• Scripting implementation for level gameplay• 3D blockout (graybox) for multiple levels and boss encounters• Boss Battle implementationStory Integration• Wrote all in-game Voice Over Dialog• Created unique Introduction dialog for all Bosses

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• Unannounced Project - (Wii)• Unannounced Project - (PC)• Crash Bandicoot: Crash of the Titans - (PSP)

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• Unannounced Project - (Wii)• Unannounced Project - (Wii)• Order Up! (Wii)• Crash Bandicoot: Crash of the Titans (PSP)• Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony (PSP)• Tony Hawks: American Wasteland (PS2/Xbox/Xbox 360/GC)

Los Angeles, Us

I worked for IGN/Fileplanet as an intern prior to graduation. I created artwork for game promotions, flash animations for "Direct2Drive.com" as well as maintained the public queue submissions.