Experience

• Senior Environment Artist at Heart Machine

  LA, US

  May 2024 - Present

  Possessor(s)

  Spearheaded the creation of engaging environments that maintained the game’s art direction pillars, gameplay clarity, bold
  
  contrasting lighting, and moody atmosphere.
  
  ➥ Concentrated on tightly designed compositions to allow for clarity of navigation and smooth, uninterrupted
  
  play.
  
  ▶ Directed enviro art for multiple biomes/regions with unique characteristics, which included executing representative
  
  environment spaces, and world building large and dense environments.
  
  ▶ Coordinated with other disciplines to retain a focus on combat and mobility without compromising on visual fidelity.
  
  ➥ Collaborated with designers to devise engaging and visually striking combat spaces.
  
  ➥ Trained other developers on art kit usage to craft high-quality, unique spaces that were thematically consistent.
  
  ▶ Independently designed and implemented tasks across the game, which included environmental asset kits, dramatic
  
  lighting, recognizable landmarks for players, lighting

• Senior Environment Artist at Possibility Space

  LA

  January 2022 - Present

  ▶ Joined as 1 of 2 inaugural Senior Environment Artists to build art department from ground-up & kickstart studio’s 1st game
  
  development project by co-creating visual direction, technical design documentation, core features, visual guidelines, &
  
  pipelines.
  
  ▶ Co-directed and developed a brand new art pipeline from pre-production and onwards, including designing a systemic art
  
  production method that allowed players to dynamically adjust color and material choices on virtually any building and prop
  
  item.
  
  ▶ Collaborated extensively with the narrative and concept leads to craft a uniquely living wo

• Environment Artist at Insomniac Games

  September 2019 - December 2021

  Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  
  Spider-Man 2

  Crafted high-quality AAA scifi environments that maintained a full 60fps/16.6ms while utilizing advanced graphical features
  
  (real-time raytracing).
  
  8 Shipped Game Titles, 2 AAA 2 Multi-Award-Winning, Best-Selling
  
  AAA Games (incl. 1 PS5 Launch Title)
  
  Cover Artist for April 2015 Issue of
  
  Popular Science Magazine
  
  ▶ Recruited to create environments for 2 award-winning AAA PS5 franchises: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart & Spider-Man 2—
  
  with Spider-Man 2 ranking as fastest-selling PS game (2.5M in 24 hrs.) & Ratchet & Clank ranking best-selling US game the
  
  month of its release.
  
  ▶ Took over as the Art Team’s point of contact and specialist on a system for creating dynamically destructible props &
  
  assets—documenting processes, giving feedback and testing of new features, and training the team on usage and best
  
  practices.
  
  ▶ Transformed design blockouts into fully modular & performant environments—including modular kit creation, hero props,
  
  world building, set dressing, texturing, prop OS briefs and management, cutscene modeling support in collaboration with
  
  cinematics & animation team.

• Environment Artist at Method EXP

  Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

  June 2017 - August 2019

  The Change, Internal Tech Demo (UE4: PC, VR, 2019)​ | Lead 3D Environment Artist

  ● Coached a small team of junior artists to ensure that environmental assets were made to the quality set by the Project Lead and AD
  
  ● Primary owner of all world building tasks including; greybox and composition design, per asset reference and direction, high > low poly models for
  
  assets, texturing of props and landscape surfaces, set dressing, environment master shaders, optimization and performance testing

  Robin Hood VR (Unity: Android VR, 2018)​ | Primary level owner and Environment Artist 

  ● Built all environment tiles and texture sets used across the project, including heavily optimized textures atlasses, draw calls, and point counts to
  
  enable high frame rates on mobile devices
  
  ● Designed a texture creation workflow to achieve a consistent look of stylized reality in the environment

  Curse of the Lost Pearl: A Magic Projector Adventure (Unity: Room-Scale Cooperative VR Experience, 2019)​ | Environment and Prop Artist

  ● Created hero and set decoration assets from concept and from whole cloth with minimal direction
  
  ● Created LOD sets for props and environment meshes

  Unannounced Project (UE4: AR, 2018)​ | Environment Artist

  ● Level owner of multiple areas of a real world environment on this unannounced title for mobile devices
  
  ● Recreated real world buildings and areas to a very accurate degree of detail while remaining within mobile specs
  
  ● Heavily optimized texture counts, draw calls, and shaders project wide

• Environment Artist at Strength In Numbers Studios

  Lansing, MI, United States of America

  July 2015 - September 2016

  Tuebor (UE4, PC, 2016), Loops of Zen (UE4, iPhone, Android, 2016)​ | Environment and Prop Artist

  ● Primary Level owner for several multiplayer environments, responsible for taking levels from design blockouts and concepts to final art
  
  ● World building and level design greyboxing, modular environment kits and trim + tile textures, high > low poly props and textures, set dressing,
  
  lighting, organic modeling, UE4 master material setup, and collision + performance optimization
  
  ● Worked with AD and Lead Artist to maintain art quality and environment optimization across multiple maps with unique modular sets
  
  ● Led junior artists, created asset tasks, and created technical and workflow documentation

• Environment Artist at Reactor Zero

  Ann Arbor, United States of America

  September 2014 - April 2015

  ● Sole environment artist on the project, responsible for all environment work and props, as well as particle FX and lighting
  
  ● World building, greyboxing, and design layouts, environment modeling, props, textures, and FX
  
  ● Developed and helped maintain a consistent style for environment

• Environment Artist at Reactor Zero

  Ann Arbor, United States of America

  July 2012 - February 2013

  ● Created 3D assets and environments for training tools and interactive engineering sandbox environments for defense clients
  
  ● Worked closely with programmers and designers to create environments and props
  
  ● Designed UI systems using HTML, CSS, and Photoshop
  

• Freelance 3D Artist at Panic DTW

  United States of America

  February 2013 - July 2015

  ● Used Maya and realtime rendering tool VRED to create renders of vehicles for clients like Polaris and Morgan Motors
  
  ● Created marketing and online configurator images for release of the Polaris Slingshot vehicle
  
  ● Worked directly with clients to create product renders and vehicle marketing images
  

• Adjunct Professor at College for Creative Studies

  Detroit, United States of America

  September 2016 - January 2017

  ● Created syllabus and instructional materials guiding students through creating production ready game environments using UE4
  
  ● Taught live demos with in person mentoring of student’s projects
  
  ● Introduced techniques for effectively planning and executing on complex environment

• Adjunct Professor at College for Creative Studies

  Detroit, United States of America

  January 2014 - July 2015

  ● Taught Introductory Maya courses focusing on 3D Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering, Rigging, and Animation