About
I am an artist with 13+ years of experience in the game industry, plus a Bachelor's degree in Game Art and Design. I have worked on 12 released titles and a handful of unreleased. Currently I am a Senior Environment Artist at Sunblink Entertainment.
Previously, I worked as Senior 3D Artist at Mitosis Games, and before that I worked for nearly 7 years at Backflip Studios on a wide variety of projects, including the majority of my time being the primary environment artist on the live ops team for the top grossing mobile game DragonVale.
Skills
Software proficiency
Experience
Being a small startup working on two very different types of mobile games, I had a wide variety of tasks and had to (quickly) adapt to regularly changing/evolving tasks and pipelines. These included:
- Creating 3D assets (both environment and characters as needed)
- Implementing all art assets into Unity and working alongside another artist to create all our scenes. For one game this involved 3D art, the other 2D sprites.
- Art polish across all assets coming in from contractors to keep everything cohesive
- Helping provide feedback for contractors and working closely with the Art Director to establish the look of our games and make sure we were reaching a high quality level given our budget
- Creating concepts, lightmapping, art optimizations, file organization, planning/scheduling, and anything that came up during our pipeline that needed to be handledI worked remotely as an environment artist on the DragonVale live update team from the time it launched to over 5 years total, much of which as the primary 3D environment artist on the game. I also contributed art to many of Backflip's other games over the years, and eventually ended up on the character team for DragonVale World where I created 3D dragons.
Games I've worked on (in chronological order):
DragonVale World
D&D mobile (unreleased)
Epic Island
SpellFall
Dwarven Den
Gizmonauts
Ragdoll Blaster 3
Papertoss 2.0
DragonVale
Army of Darkness: DefenseI was responsible for modeling and texturing low poly environmental assets for use in our games.
My role involved creating environmental assets using a realistic style.