Experience

• Senior Environment Artist at Turtle Rock Studios

  Austin, Texas, United States of America

  February 2022 - Present

• Senior 3D Artist at Frame Machine

  Austin, Texas

  July 2021 - April 2022

  - Frame Machine is a Design/Animation/VFX Studio that co-devs in clients real-time environments within UE4 and UE5
  
  - Worked alongside my Art Director and Lead 3D Artist to establish a artistic direction that also fits our gameplay and cinematic requirements given by the level design
  
  - Assisting the development of FM IPs
  
  - Took multiple scenes from a 2D concept to full scale 3D environment in UE4 & UE5, creating environments based off clients storyboards and shot composition
  
  - Worked with Frame Machines clients on Hero Assets and Scene Creation
  
  - Created Advanced UE4 shaders for high fidelity assets with optimal performance, at times evaluating a creative issue and tackling them technically via Shaders
  
  - Established pipelines to create an efficient pace for others to replicate
  
  - Prepared rigged models for animators to work on

• Art Director & Lead 3D Artist at Dekogon

  Vancouver

  January 2018 - June 2021

  - Established the overall art direction to recreate our client imaginations
  
  - Created guidelines for assets, textures, and workflows for all assets so we can delivery the quality that was expected
  
  - Managed the art and production of all Dekogon client projects
  
  - Developed pipelines for efficiency amongst specific projects
  
  - Designed environments based on clients imaginations based on rough references or sketches.
  
  - Developed multiple game ready environments using Unreal Engine 4, in most cases having source control access to directly contribute to the clients project (P4, Github)
  
  - Setup and optimized assets into client source controls
  
  - prototype pipelines, internal structure, and documentation for client projects
  
  - Evaluated & organized multiple teams for particular sprints based on strengths
  
  - Made game ready models based on rough sketches and real world references
  
  - Created a strong healthy environment amongst freelancing employees that established bonds outside of the work
  
  - Keep track of budget and spending throughout the all of dekogons contract projects
  
  - Assisted lead artist in whatever task they need to fullfill their teams needs, whether that be managerial or artistically

• Freelance 3D Artist at Ironbelly Studios

  Montreal

  May 2017 - April 2018

  - Worked closely with leads and customers so we could deliver exactly what they need from us, that includes any requirements or pipelines they wish us to follow
  
  - Created modular assets (blockout - proxy model - high poly (sculpt) - low poly - texturing - send to client or level designers. All while being critiqued from leads and the customers along the way
  
  - Worked with PBR textures inside Substance Painter
  
  - Created tons of props and environment pieces within multiple projects while following a industry standard pipeline