Experience

• Senior Environment Artist at Sony Santa Monica

  Los Angeles, CA

  April 2019 - Present

  Next God of War

• Environment Artist at Valkyrie Entertainment

  Seattle, WA

  August 2016 - March 2019

  •  worked as an all-encompassing 3D artist, working directly with clients to meet their needs for each project which range from different art styles, gameplay needs, different engines, and technical specs
  
  •  projects range from long-term full environment work (world building, props, lighting, perf optimization, and bug fixing) to short-term singular collection of assets (such as 1st/3rd person guns, weapons, props) 

  Projects worked on:
  
  • God of War 2018 (Santa Monica Studio)
  
  • Valorant (Riot Games)
  
  • Killing Floor 2 (Tripwire Interactive)
  
  • Atlas (Studio Wildcard)
  
  • Archangel (Skydance Interactive)

• Environment Artist at 343 Industries

  Redmond, WA

  January 2015 - July 2016

  • created assets for both campaign and multiplayer ranging from hard surface modeling props and architecture, organics sculpting, and material work/texturing in addition to world building/set-dressing
  
  • learned how to utilize the in-house shader system and related tools in order to maximize the visual quality of the materials and assets within strict performance limitations
  
  • generated and tested collision using Havok debugger tools, and assisted with optimization, LOD creation using Simplygon, and bug fixing/troubleshooting throughout various maps

• Environment Artist at Amazon

  Seattle, WA

  May 2014 - September 2014

  • created full dynamic environments of different themes (nature, architecture, sci-fi) for the Amazon Fire Phone starting from 2D concept collaborations to modeling, sculpting, texturing, lighting, and building/troubleshooting on-device within 10-15 days per scene from concept to shippable finished work
  
  • filled in the role of a 3D generalist helping to create 3D models for the phone (app icons, map icons)

• Junior Environment Artist at Airtight Games

  Redmond, WA

  June 2013 - October 2013

  • worked extensively in Unreal 3 and worked closely with the lead environment artists and senior artists in taking on various support tasks for the game Murdered: Soul Suspect
  
  • asset creation: modeled and textured a variety of props, imported them into the engine, made the materials, and did the set-dressing for various levels in the game
  
  • memory optimization and cleanup: poly reduction or cleanup on assets and terrain, lightmap optimization, made LOD models, and fixed/remade pre-existing models that did not meet the quality bar