Experience

• Senior 3D Artist at Unity

  Orlando, US

  June 2023 - Present

• Lead Artist / 3D Generalist at Soar Technology, Inc

  Orlando

  October 2018 - May 2023

  Character Art:
  
  - Worked alongside Lead Artist to establish best practices and art direction.
  
  - Established pipeline to control character artwork between Unity and Unreal engines.
  
  - Brought various characters to 3d from conceptual imagery ranging from stylized to realistic.
  
  - Other modeling duties included props and environment assets as required per project.

  Design:
  
  - Mocked-up UI for various internal prototypes of games/trainers in Unity and Unreal.
  
  - Generated visual aids to help communicate design ideas.
  
  - Worked with engineers to rapidly build working prototypes to help work through design questions.
  
  - Various graphics to be used with proposals in seeking work.
  
  - Created basic blueprints in Unreal to execute simple in game actions.

• Enviornment/Vehicle Artist at Bohemia Interactive Simulations

  Orlando, United States of America

  April 2014 - August 2018

  Model Work:
  
  - Created various game ready assets for the VBS library including vehicles, weapons, environment props, and structures all using PBR standards.
  
  - Made Art Lead on an internal project to migrate VBS assets over to Unity for an online training division.
  
  - Built various small scale prototype environments inside of Unity using their terrain editor.

  Technical:
  
  - Made tutorials on how to use Substance Painter internally to keep assets consistent in visual appearance.
  
  - Responsible for getting content into the game engine with the proper functionality including animations, collision, and material setup.
  
  - Various optimization tasks for the Unity terrains such as reducing draw calls, baking light maps and removing unneeded collision objects from the scene file.
  
  - Basic python scripts to keep source models setup properly for integration.

• 3D Generalist at Quantum 3D

  Orlando, United States of America

  June 2007 - March 2014

  Model Work:
  
  - Built High fidelity models to be used in normal map baking for game ready assets.
  
  - Developed 3D content to be used in various applications such as simulators, commercial products, advertisements, and 3D prints.
  
  - Created Airfields that were built into terrain databases that were used for flight simulators.

  Technical:
  
  - Created tutorials to help studio reach higher fidelity content for model work.
  
  - Developed modeling standards for game ready assets.

• 3D Generalist at Digtal Roar Studios

  Orlando, United States of America

  January 2005 - May 2007

  Model Work:
  
  Created numerous props for several space environments.
  
  Built both the high and low poly models of space craft models from concept art.

  Texture Work:
  
  UV layout and hand painted textures were built to specifications and standards set by lead artist.