Experience

• Environment Tech Artist at 343i

  Redmond, United States of America

  May 2019 - January 2023

  Worked with campaign and MP teams to set up levels and review assets for performance issues.

  Duties:
  
  • Reviewed levels in production for assets that had missing LODs, bad collision geo, or any number of other issues relating to performance.
  
  • Analyzed levels with PIX to gather GPU captures to uncover expensive geo, fx, and shaders.
  
  • Set up animated camera tracks in production levels to gather time lapse footage for reviews and sizzle reel shots for future marketing efforts.
  
  • Broke levels down into streamable chunks of content and set up streaming volumes along the player’s progression path.
  
  • Added simple script controlled animations to dynamic world objects.
  
  • Set up layer hierarchies that conformed to a global organization convention, and handled the process of moving early prototyping content from placeholder layers into the standard layer hierarchy.
  
  • Reviewed and compiled reports on memory, performance, and disc space data over production of various maps.

  Environment: Proprietary Game Engine, Maya, Havok VDB, Perforce, Azure DevOps, Excel

• Environment Artist at Prop Comissions

  January 2020 - March 2022

  Comissioned by an indie client to create 3d props and environment assets from provided reference art.

  Duties:
  
  • Review the client's visual and narrative needs for the asset in discussion followed up with a blockout exploratory phase in Blender.
  
  • Prepare placeholder models for sculpting in Zbrush by performing mesh cleanup and following consistent naming conventions across the set.
  
  • Add believable surface details during the sculpting and texturing process in Zbrush and Substance Designer that add interest to the asset's focal points.

  Environment: Blender, Zbrush, 3DCoat, Substance Painter, Marmoset Renderer, Unreal Engine

• Environment Artist at Infinite Zero LLC

  Redmond, United States of America

  September 2016 - August 2018

  I worked with an indie studio of <10 developers to create environment art assets, provide consulting on tool pipelines, and help manage the time and resource limitations of the art team.

  Duties:
  
  • Sculpted sets of assets using Zbrush, then created a master material in Substance Designer to procedurally generate textures for certain asset types.
  
  • Created documents to keep track of what assets would be needed, and where they were in their production progress.
  
  • Attended weekly meetings to present completed work, outline what I would be working on next, and communicate with other disciplines on the team to ensure that the project continued progressing in a unified direction.

  Environment: Maya, Zbrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Unreal Engine, JIRA, Trello, Git, Google Office Suite.