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Over nineteen years specializing in Environment Art, Level Design, Management & Documentation. |
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Artist, Groove Jones
Feb 2016 to present VR project in UE4. Details to come. Freelance Artist. Apr 2013 to Jan 2016 Sabbatical from in office work to provide in-home health care while continuing freelance art projects. Lead Artist, Illfonic. Nov 2009 to Apr 2013 AMD Tech Demo Ruby: Project Phoenix. CryEngine3 DX11 techdemo. Designed level, documention, managed a team of artists & optimziation (draws, lod distances, tricounts, etc). Video of full demo (Jun 7, 2013). Crysis 3, Xbox360, PS3, PC. My duties involved optimizing draw calls, triangle and texture use in buildings. Managed a small team optimizing other assets, and documenting the progress for delivery to Crytek. Nexuiz, Xbox360, PC. released for the Xbox Live Arcade House Party February 29, 2012, then on Steam for PC. Lead Artist on Nexuiz for Xbox 360 Arcade and PC using CryEngine 3. My duties included managing all art assets over multiple levels, and working with outsourcing. Nexuiz Duel Mode DLC, PC. Created custom level art for duel level. Nexuiz STUPID Mode DLC, PC. Created for benchmarking DX11 features such as detailed meshes, full size textures, mesh tessellation, etc. World Art Lead, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, PC. Mythic Entertainment, Oct 2008 to Feb 2009 After shipping Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, I was promoted to World Art Lead in charge of outsourcing art. My duties included training an outsourced Indian art studio in the technical aspects and Warhammer art style, documenting daily feedback and creating work orders. After the training process, I was in charge of outsourcing art to the studio in India as well as one in China. Additionally, I was proactive between many teams supplying feedback on the live game of exploits and bugs through spending countless hours in the trenches of the game. World Artist, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, PC. Mythic Entertainment, Mar 2006 to Oct 2008 Created environment assets for all races including large interior and exterior dungeons, buildings, and smaller props such as wagons and banners. My duties included modeling, UVs, materials and collision. Mid development, I switched by choice to the Dungeons Team, and was involved in all aspects of the creation of three end game dungeons. Contract Artist, Dungeon Runners, PC. NCsoft Austin, Feb to Mar 2006 Modeled and textured low poly weapons in five elemental variations and created icons for each weapon. Lead Designer and Art Manager, NanoLegends, PC. Commgraphics, Apr 2004 to Nov 2005 NanoLegends was designed as an educational adventure game teaching cellular biology to high school students with the goal of making learning fun and effective. Created in the Serious Sam engine in three months, and received the highest rating from the National Institute of Health. I designed, built and textured the characters and level. In full production, as co-creator and designer of this hybrid platformer/shooter/driving educational game, I wrote most of the design doc, designed all game levels (models, textures, lighting, monster placement), managed the art team and additional game assets (monsters, vehicles, items). Senior Artist, Goblin Commander, PS2, XBOX & Gamecube. Jaleco Entertainment, Aug 2002 to Feb 2004 Created environment art including tile sets & map models. Designed destructible geometry system with tech artist. Lead Artist, Gore, PC. 4d Rulers Software Inc., Sep 1997 to Aug 2002 Designed all 2d wall textures, map objects, weapons skins, effects, and some character textures for the PC FPS game, GORE. Managed material files, assigning shader definitions and impact effects. Modeled and textured dozens of environment objects. Designed the single player missions layout, story line and worked directly with designers to ensure playability. Managed several artist and designers. Created an art database of high resolution textures and high detail meshes for future products such as Secret Service: Security Breach and Patriots: A Nation Under Fire (developed after my departure from the company). Contract Artist, Zaero: Mission Pak for Quake 2, PC. Team Evolve, 1997 Painted ~200 environment item/prop textures. Texture Artist, Quake 2: Extremities, PC. Level Infinity, 1997 Created +10 player textures. |
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