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Always striving to combine my knowledge of making art for games with my growing knowledge of programming in C# and developing in Unity. Hoping to bring a new perspective to a development team that values bringing game feel through every part of the process. Breaking down and understanding some of the more complex glue that holds experiences together that many smaller studios miss. I also love to do narrative design and do gameplay programming as well!

Spearhead prototyping to define and uncover mechanics and feel.

Skills

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Blender
- Modeling
- Scuplting
- Rigging
- Animating
- Export To Engine
3d Studio Max
- Max Script
- Modeling
- Scuplting
- Rigging
- Animating
- Export To Engine
Zbrush
Photoshop
Substance Designer/Painter
Unity
- Full understanding of lighting system
- Rendering pipeline and how to build around it’s constraints
- HDRP
- URP
- Shadergraph
- Importing pipeline
- C#
Unreal
- Lighting
- World Building
- Asset Import Pipeline
PBR Metalness and Smoothness workflows for multiple engines
- Knowledge of how to author dielectric and conductive materials
- By hand or by automated tools like Substance Designer/Painter or TB4’s new painting tools
Marvelous Designer
- Cloth simulation pipeline workflow to Zbrush then to runtime geo

Experience

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E-Line Media - July 2017 to Present
Endstar

Art Director
- Shaped the look and feel of Endstar, taking into account Art Teams thoughts and opinions as well
- Led art creation and early tests as well as de-risking up coming art related issues and features
Tech Artist
- Created art pipeline alongside team
- Shaped SDK tools with Tools Engineer
Co-Project Lead
- High Level Product Decisions and Design
- Creative Direction alongside Lead Engineer

The Endless Mission

Character Creation System (Full pipeline)
Rigging/Animating
Prototyping (Scripts/Animations/Gameplay)
Environments
Lighting
Props

Freelance 3d Work - 2014 to 2017

Create various 3d Art assets and prototypes for a multitude of clients.
Work with client to guide and develop assets
Create exploratory work and submit to clients who might need 3d visualization
Worked closely with 33North on a large project for PING.

MOS - Defense - July 2012 - October 2013

Character, Weapon, Particle Artist, VR Research and Development for mil-sim training tool.

Researched and created accurate characters based on real world information
Created particle systems for environment and weapon FX.
Created extra props to fill in development holes
Used an Oculus Rift Development Kit to explore VR applications for virtual training.

Pitch Black Games LLC - October 2010 to April 2012

Character, Weapon, and Particle Artist

Created a multitude of weapons
Created every particle system and ability FX and weapon FX system in the game
Used engine tools to create items and abilities and implement them using the FX
Transitioned to character team to clean up and replace art the was not target quality

Eternal Silence Mod Team - March 2008 to June 2009

Texture and Prop artist

Created two character models taking them from concept, to fully implementing them in game
Created two ships from concept to texturing to completion
Painted textures for props as well as modeled carry items
Learned how to work remotely with a team of many different backgrounds and collaborated over great distances to make sure that my work was correct and surpassing standards

Flashbang Studios - Tempe Arizona - Apr. 2008 to Jul. 2008

Intern as 3d artist

Worked on a small team creating assets ranging from trees to fruit, to animals
Interfaced with programmers and technical artists as well as an art director
Gained experience in working in Unity
Participated in the creation of Minotaur Chinashop
Participated in the creation of Jetpack Brontosaurus

Principle Animation LLC - June 2008

Character Modeler

Created a human biped for use in courtroom cases to determine the outcome of events
Worked directly with employer to revise the product

Additional Experience

Served as a conference associate at GDC 08 and 09
Participated on a team as an artist and designer in six SGDA Game Jams
Attended local developer mixers and IGDA events

Education

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The Art Institute of Phoenix - June 2008

Bachelor of Arts, Game Art and Design

Millennium Highschool

Graduated in 2005