Experience

• Senior Environment and Prop Artist at Super Studios

  Seattle, Wa, US

  May 2024 - Present

  Masters of Mayhem | PC

  Core focus: Create multiple environments with UGC in mind using modular assets for efficient world building

  Reimagined the main player Lobby and turned it into a nostalgic Arcade with games, skeeball and even a ball pit for players to run around in while queuing for their next game

  Tag teamed with another 3D Artist to concept and create a snowy Arctic level where players find their spaceship has crash landed at a deserted arctic research facility with a mysterious creature hidden inside and encased in ice

  Created many props for the mini-game tasks players must complete to win the game and avoid being killed by the Impostor

  Helped light the scene in Unreal Engine and focused on emissive properties to help direct players from room to room

• Art Director | 3D Artist | Outsourcing at Mythical Games

  Seattle, Wa, US

  July 2020 - December 2023

  Blankos Block Party | PC
  
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  ​Core focus: Sole owner of the Blanko character pipeline working with internal and external artists and brands to bring players the newest character skins to play in game.
  
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  Created and executed on a plan to create an entire years - worth of Party Pass seasonal content in a span of 6 months which included 18 themed characters, 36 character accessories and multiple environment props, textures, FX and animations.

  Main point of contact for outsource management, providing initial theme and mood boards as well as providing continuous feedback and paint-overs to bring all 3d content to life, including final polish pass and setting up prefabs in Unity for use in game.

  Created and iterated on 3d rendered concepts for Biz Dev on potential brand & artist collaborations including: Burberry, Deadmau5, Atari, The Marathon Clothing Company, TOHO (Godzilla), YG Ent, and multiple well known vinyl toy artists.

  Hand painted hundreds of Character textures from internal concepts and also edited many others from external partners to meet our quality bar, then implemented them in game along with accessories.

  Helped create and define how the “mash up” feature works in game, from initial PSD setup to using internal tools to determine the outcome of combining one character design with another to create a whole new design.

  Pivoted from PC to Mobile and continued my role as Art Director for a brand new game using the same Blankos IP, updating the art style for a mobile audience and continuing to work with outsourced art assets.

• 3D Marketing Artist at Mojang | Xbox Game Studios

  Remond, Wa, US

  March 2019 - July 2020

  Minecraft | PC | Xbox
  
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  Core focus: create promotional images for the Minecraft marketplace and for marketing at Xbox Game Studios
  
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  Create polished marketing images, key art, storyboards and assist in developing trailers for upcoming releases

  Assist core art team with modeling, textures and animations
  
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• 3D Artist at King

  Seattle, Wa, US

  March 2015 - April 2019

  Paradise Bay | iOS | Android
  
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  Core focus: created consistent stylized art for a massive resource management game which generated over $100M in lifetime gross bookings
  
  
  
  Created all art assets for post launch feature “Build your own ship” which generated over $1M in revenue in its first year

  Streamlined process to make multiple ships, using same geometry and only altering vertex color, resulting in quicker development and less memory footprint

  Created islands, pet habitats, ships and decorations

  Coordinated outsourcing of content to third party; developed art style guide, provided feedback and managed iterations
  
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  Rise of Tyrants (Unreleased)
  
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  Core focus: created all buildings and weapons for the main player land based off concept art and of my own design
  
  
  
  Responsible for modeling every building with the goal of retaining a consistent stylized look throughout the game

  Designed and implemented a guide for tech art to automate lightmaps for buildings

  Worked with Design to build new campaign levels and developed “Candy Crush” inspired Saga Maps for story missions

• 3D Artist at Z2 Live

  Seattle, Wa, US

  May 2013 - March 2015

  MetalStorm: ACES | iOS | Android

  Core focus: modeled and textured multiple aircraft for promotional sales post-launch for ACES as part of the Live team
  
  
  
  Modeled aircraft using real world blueprints and specs

  Created detailed textures with real world paneling and decals

  Generated 2d and 3d art for App Store features, in game promotional banners and icons

• Environment Artist at Glu Mobile

  Kirkland, Wa, US

  February 2012 - July 2012

  Gears & Guts | iOS | Android
  
  
  
  Modeled the “Harbor” level with both day and night lighting

  Used combination of hand painting and photo-sourced images to create textures

  Polished outsourced vehicles and weapons

  Created new vehicles with diffuse/normal/spec maps

• Environment Artist at Griptonite Games

  Kirkland, Wa, US

  November 2010 - May 2011

  Shinobi 3DS | Nintendo 3DS
  
  Penguins of Madagascar | Xbox | Playstation
  
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  Created a variety of environments and props for Shinobi

  Hand painted tileable textures

  Helped establish overall look of the game with Lead Artist

  Created multiple destructible props for Penguins of Madagascar for the Xbox Kinect

• QA Tester at Microsoft Game Studios

  Redmond, Wa, US

  February 2010 - November 2010

  Gears of War 3 | Xbox
  
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  Worked with MGS & Epic team members to solve game breaking bugs and provided feedback to improve experience of online play

  Communicated with other MGS testers and EPIC Games developers through Seapine Software's TestTrack Pro bug database

  Logged 300+ bugs in TestTrack pro

  Additional titles tested include Alan Wake, Crackdown 2 and Kinect Adventures