Wesley P Eldridge Email & Phone Number

• Shipped Palia on PC, Steam, and Switch• Create a robust, artist-friendly, performant shader stack for Cosmetics and characters in a stylized PBR live service game.• Work directly with Team Leadership, Concept artists, Character Artists, FX Artists, and Technical Animators to establish and push the quality bar for FX and shader fidelity. Also helped establish the “What If” idea space in early cosmetics planning to maximize player impact and product value.• Proposed an alternative method of leveraging our shader stack and tools to significantly de-scope and de-risk a new product vertical significantly improving the overall ROI for the feature.• Help establish performance budgets and asset authoring standards with Character Lead and Technical Animation teams.• Improved Environment and VFX shader performance and fidelity.• Extensive work related to performance optimizations for characters and environments to ship on Switch.• Work in a semi-autonomous manner to balance task load, supporting other teams, and doing feature RND to make sure we are ahead of the curve on feature development and tech-debt.• Wrote a variety of tools to validate PBR, lighting environment, and streamline asset generation.• Mentor other character artists and tech artists about Shaders and shader best practices, modeling techniques, environment / HLOD optimization, and Blueprint best practices / code reviews.• Wrote C++ plugins for use in Cosmetics for implementing material WPO springs and other pop-in effects in a performant manner. • Support Lighting needs and post process refactors before a dedicated lighting artist was hired.

• Shipped Palia on PC, Steam, and Switch• Create a robust, artist-friendly, performant shader stack for Cosmetics and characters in a stylized PBR live service game.• Work directly with Team Leadership, Concept artists, Character Artists, FX Artists, and Technical Animators to establish and push the quality bar for FX and shader fidelity. Also helped establish the “What If” idea space in early cosmetics planning to maximize player impact and product value.• Proposed an alternative method of leveraging our shader stack and tools to significantly de-scope and de-risk a new product vertical significantly improving the overall ROI for the feature.• Help establish performance budgets and asset authoring standards with Character Lead and Technical Animation teams.• Improved Environment and VFX shader performance and fidelity.• Extensive work related to performance optimizations for characters and environments to ship on Switch.• Work in a semi-autonomous manner to balance task load, supporting other teams, and doing feature RND to make sure we are ahead of the curve on feature development and tech-debt.• Wrote a variety of tools to validate PBR, lighting environment, and streamline asset generation.• Mentor other character artists and tech artists about Shaders and shader best practices, modeling techniques, environment / HLOD optimization, and Blueprint best practices / code reviews.• Wrote C++ plugins for use in Cosmetics for implementing material WPO springs and other pop-in effects in a performant manner. • Support Lighting needs and post process refactors before a dedicated lighting artist was hired.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Fortnite | Co-Development with Epic Games• Create reactive / dynamic material functions for Fortnite skins to closely match stylistic and IP considerations. Chivalry 2 | Co-Development with Torn Banner and Tripwire Interactive• Evaluate established shaders, content library, and levels for Raytracing viability• Create drop in material functions, content examples, and work estimates for implementing Raytracing across the project.Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines 2Additional responsibilities after moving to Lead role• Took leadership role with the Technical Art and VFX Departments. Also managed VFX outsource.• Managed 3 direct reports with a focus on mentorship and technical skill development.• Collaborated with Tech-Design and Engineering to define a Blueprint coding and review standard for the entire studio across multiple projects.• Lead art reviews to ensure art targets are being hit on time and in budget

Seattle, Wa

Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines 2• Find interesting solutions to technical and visual problems.• Bridge the gap between art, design, and engineering departments.• Developed VFX and post-process effects with a focus on performance and maintaining framerates under challenging hardware conditions.• Create and maintain the Environment, Character, and VFX shader libraries.• Establish memory and frame-time budgets with Environment, Character, and VFX Departments.• Built an Unreal Editor tools framework using UMG and Editor Utility Widgets with a focus on unifying the developer experience across disciplines and facilitating the rapid prototyping and delivery of tools asks.• Build a wide variety of tools upon this framework. Examples include asset zoo generation, level voxelization and volume texture generation for dynamic weather, GPU based Christmas lights and location generation on meshes, PBR compliance viewer, bulk auditing tools and editing of large data sets such as conforming all static meshes to pre-defined LOD and collision standards.• Created a variety of dynamic systems including breakable glass, dynamic rain, destructible props and vehicles, blood and gore, etc.• Produced Houdini to Unreal pipelines for creating VFX source art.

Seattle, Wa

Created production art, animation, materials, and tools for a variety of small studios and independent clients.Team roles I've filled include Art Director, Lead Artist, Technical Artist, VFX Artist, Animator, UI/UX Designer, Environment Artist, Character Artist, Illustrator, Narrative Designer, and Concept Artist.Clients Include:• Tomorrow Today Labs• Strong Suit Games• Stumbling Cat• OssOVR• BendVR

Phoenix, Az

Performed Quality Assurance for THQ. Tested pre-release software for defects and 1st party standards violations across XBOX 360, PS3, WII, and DS platforms. Credited on Eight shipped titles.