Experience

• World Builder at Lost Boys interactive

  Chicago, US

  July 2022 - Present

  Working in Partnership with Amazon Game studios.
  
  Collaborated with art directors, leads, design teams, and asset teams to bring each poi from concept to reality.
  
  Universal poi workflow for collaborative team work. Organizing poi’s and components for anyone to work in.
  
  Workflow starting at concept and design interpretation, blockout and composition. Player, enemy, and special asset location and framing.
  
  Poi first pass with the use of existing kits and assets to establish scope and scale with
  
  Created lists and asset boards for special assets to be created. Including usage, scale, purpose, and variation to existing assets.
  
  Asset blockout experimentation for a modular organic kit. Created blockouts and mock-up to achieve a final look for production.
  
  Experimented with kit pieces during poi creation to establish what assets were necessary for creation. Created spreadsheets for asset metrics and usage.
  
  Became a leader in use of organic kits and nature assets for pois and expeditions. Biome population for interior pois and expedition. Laying foliage, customizing areas for unique looks, using biome and kits to tell a story.
  
  Constant play testing pois to maintain scale. Keeping true to design, lead notes and art direction
  
  In-engine optimizations to keep target frame and performance. Adjusted view distance, asset amounts, Mesh merging, prefab or slice creation. Applied any performance changes on a large scale throughout poi/levels.

• Environment Artist at Raw Thrills

  Skokie Illinois

  August 2017 - July 2022

  Environment design and planning, blockout creation, world building, environmental and asset modeling, texturing for assets and terrain, lighting for player and environment, technical art, material and shader work, and in-engine optimizations.
  
  Working alongside artists to produce a unique experience for all ages. Asset and prop creations for levels and characters. Environment Artist for interactive arcade games such as a new line in VR experiences.
  
  Working in Unity 5, Unity HDRP, and UDP. Working in Unity Proprietary Engine
  
  Using Autodesk Maya, Substance Painter, Rizom 3D and Photoshop to create and finalize models/textures.Creating highpoly meshes reducing them with proper vert/poly counts, and preserving texture quality.
  
  Maintained edge flow and texal density throughout assets.
  
  Lightmap creation and maintenance throughout static meshes. Light baking and technical workflow for quality bakes.
  
  Dynamic and Static lighting for levels and characters.Telling a story and experiences through lighting composition while maintaining performance budget.
  
  Performance assistance with lighting, bakes, LOD’s, lowpoly budgets, partial and fx rework for ms spikes.

• Associate Artist for Mobile at NetherRealm Studios (WB)

  Chicago

  August 2016 - May 2017

  Responsible for creating and maintaining quality throughout characters and environments for Injustice 2 and MKX Mobile.
  
  3D character and Environment Artist for Mobile.
  
  Created Specular and PBR textures for use in UE3 and UE4. Used substance, photoshop, and xnormal for a variety of results.
  
  Worked under strict deadlines, giving proper vert,tri, and poly counts in editor while preserving texture quality.
  
  Maintained edge flow, texal density, and arranged lightmaps throughout meshes.
  
  Prepared models and textures for outsourcing and reviewed on arrival. Collaborated in groups for instructional images.
  
  Converted high poly mesh assets, both skeletal and static, to a low poly mesh for mobile use.

• Associate Enviroment Artist at Taris Real Estate

  Chicago, United States of America

  September 2014 - November 2014

  I created an environment from blueprint images of a lot that had not yet been built. I had a fantastic experience discussing back and forth the look and feel of what the home would become. I blocked out the home, imported into unreal engine 4 and flushed out my models. Finally texturing in photoshop and using substance designer for the interior. Within the time span given, we were able to publish the home on the company page for future home owners to view.

• Asset Modeler at Friedmutter Group

  Las Vegas, United States of America

  July 2014 - July 2014

  Modeled two high poly assets from reference using 3ds max. Used in a high quality render for a remodeled hotel lobby.

• 3D Environment Artist at Digital Iris

  Milwaukee , United States of America

  June 2015 - January 2016

  Worked alongside my art leads to create assets for a large scale enviroment. Models would be seen far and close as well as structures players would have to ascend. Sculpted all models in ZBrush, decimated, and optimized in Maya for proper baking. Textured with Quixel and maintained a PBR workflow for others to edit.