Experience

• Senior Character Artist at META - Sanzaru

  Remote, US

  April 2022 - Present

  ● Defined and owned character art, armor sets and creature creation for Asgard's Wrath 2, delivering high fidelity assets on a 10-15 day turnaround while adhering to strict hardware constraints.
  
  ● Established texture and material standards for hard-surface weapon assets, raising overall asset consistency and visual quality.
  
  ● Collaborated closely with the Concept Team to brainstorm, refine and finalize the functional design and visual language of major vehicle assets.
  
  ● Partnered with Graphics Engineer, Lighting, and Technical Art teams to develop best practices in achieving high end in-game quality within VR limitations.
  

• Senior Character Artist at Amazon Game Studio

  Irvine, US

  June 2020 - April 2022

  ● Established a character pipeline, and asset naming standards to support scalability and consistency as the project moved from prototype towards production.
  
  ● Contributed to early prototyping and pre-production for an unannounced AAA project, helping define multiple character modeling styles and visual directions.
  
  ● Coordinated with the Art Director and Lead Concept Artist to visualize the concept art into production ready characters that aligned with the evolving art vision.
  
  ● Delivered high quality character assets while iterating in a fast moving, exploratory development environment as part of a two artist character team.
  
  ● Collaborated with the New World team in creating high-quality character armor sets and props for the New World MMO.
  

• Senior 3D Artist (Promotion) at Magic Leap

  Plantation

  March 2020 - Present

  ● Task and projects currently being determined.

• Mix Reality Artist at Magic Leap

  Plantation, US

  November 2016 - February 2020

  ● Created real-time environment and character content for the Magic Leap creator AR device, Balancing visual quality with real-time performance limitation.
  
  ● Supported the UI/UX team with pre-visualization and final asset direction for the avatar system and customization features.
  
  ● Collaborated with the Experience Team to deliver high-end AR content, balancing visual polish with technical feasibility, including the interactive Undersea aquarium experience.
  

• Senior 3D Artist at Shiver Entertainment

  Miami, US

  January 2014 - October 2016

  ● Collaborated with the Lead Artist to define and maintain the character and weapon pipeline for a mobile title.
  
  ● Acted as Art Manager by providing biweekly feedback to 40+ characters and weapon assets, ensuring consistency, performance and visual standards for all deliverables.
  
  ● Created high visual fidelity of high and low poly assets that were optimized for mobile hardware.
  
  ● Collaborated with the Art Director during pre-production to support visual development and pre-visualization for the characters and vehicles.
  
  ● Supported asset tracking, delivery and organization using Jira and Perforce to maintain efficient production flow.

• Senior 3D Artist at Shadows In Darkness/ Darkside Game Studio

  Sunrise

  March 2009 - December 2013

  ● Responsible for creating highpoly and lowpoly meshes for characters, props, vehicles, and weapons for clients like Gearbox, Bioware, Yager, Insomniac and many more.
  
  ● Coordinated with the Art Director on in-house projects to establish character creation pipeline.
  
  ● Delivered production ready assets across a wide range of styles, adapting quickly to different client requirements and technical constraints.
  
  ● Responsible for creating highpoly and lowpoly meshes for characters, props, and weapons.

• 3D Artist at Shadows In Darkness

  Sunrise

  March 2008 - March 2009

  ● Responsible for creating highpoly and lowpoly meshes for characters, props, and weapons.