Experience

• Senior Character Technical Artist/Animator at Highwire Games

  Remote, US

  February 2024 - January 2025

  Currently setting up a new skeletong and converting an existing animation pipeline to a custom Metahumans one. Refining hardening art standards and pipeline for a clean development environment and adding full documentation.

• Senior Technical Artist at Studio Hermitage

  Remote

  November 2023 - February 2024

  I Setup documentation and workflows for establishing an art pipeline for a startup company that had none in place. Responsible for creating art for presentation to publishers and outside contacts to help establish funding and look of the game. Worked to develop assets and cleaned up purchased assets for in game use using a standard PRB workflow in Unreal5. Also did a lot of research and development of numerous software packages for artist use to establish an artist facing pipeline.

• Principal Character Technical Animator at Mob Entertainment

  St. Louis, MO., US

  May 2023 - September 2023

  Brought on to lead and mentor a small team of technical, environment, animators and character artists on best practices/techniques. I instituted a more modern workflow by incorporating Jira, Perforce, naming conventions and documentation practices. In order to convert from a PC only title, I documented the entire processes for converting to all consoles and portable devices. Responsible for creating character and prop rigs with levels of complexity to adhere to standards for each delivery platform. Instrumental in establishing, reviewing and documenting standards for models, LODs, animation, and artist facing tools.

• Lead Technical Animator at Firaxis Games

  St. Louis, MO. (Remote), United States of America

  September 2022 - March 2023

  Leading a team of technical artists, also instructing modelers, riggers, and animators to make sure assets adhere to specific and newer standards I'm setting up. More details to come as the project advances.

• Senior Technical Artist at Survios

  Los Angeles, CA., United States of America

  June 2014 - May 2022

  Was one of the first two artists hired at Survios after the first round of startup funding. Brought in to focus on character and facial rigging, modeling and texturing. Rigged all of the characters in Raw Data, Sprint Vector, BattleWake, Westworld: Awakening, Creed: Rise to Glory, Walking Dead: Onslaught, Puzzle Bobble, and most of them in Creed: Big Rumble Boxing as well as modeling and texturing environment pieces and two of the Raw Data hero weapons (Pistol & Bow). Tons of early R&D VR tests and prototypes that will never see the light of day.

• Maya TD - Contract at DuMonde VFX

  New Orleans, LA., United States of America

  March 2014 - May 2014

  Brought in to organize and optimize the art pipeline across two studio locations and two off-site artists for John Malkovich's new TV show, 'Crossbones' for NBC. Worked to optimize scenes for renders and managed renders on the internal and external render farms. Modeled and textured buildings, props, vegetation, and other assets for multiple shots.

• Technical Artist at Kojima Productions

  El Segundo, CA., United States of America

  August 2012 - May 2013

  Was hired as the first artist at the new Los Angeles studio working on the multiplayer portion of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. I was responsible for all art tasks at the time including 2D artwork, logos, stickers, shirts, etc.... I also created and evaluated character and environment art tests to help build the American art team. We built a small but strong art team.

• Senior Technical Artist at Spark Unlimited

  Sherman Oaks, CA., United States of America

  April 2012 - July 2012

  Character, creature, and prop rigging for Yaiba.

• Senior Technical Artist at CCP Games

  Stone Mountain, GA, United States of America

  August 2009 - October 2011

  Was brought in to help create the first Character Department in CCP's history. Did all rigging for EVE Online Incarna expansion (Walking in Stations) including the groundbreaking facial animation and character creator. Got to work with Steven Stahlberg, Trevor Claxton and lots of other very talented people while there. Iceland is a great place to visit if you get the chance. Also developed character and creature rigs for the World of Darkness game that was cancelled.

• Character Technical Director at Sucker Punch Productions

  Bellevue, WA, United States of America

  September 2006 - April 2009

  Came in as a Playstation 3 specialist to help the team ramp up to the new development platform. My experience from Naughty Dog gave me a lot of key insight on how to handle all aspects of the art creation pipeline for the Playstation 3. Was the Character Technical Director on inFamous for the Playstation 3. Introduced the art team to new tools and tech to take advantage of the Playstation 3 architecture.

• ICE Team Artist at Naughty Dog

  Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

  June 2003 - July 2006

  Fortunate to be the the only artist on the Naughty Dog ICE Team lead by Mark Cerny. We worked on creating the Playstation 3 engine for all of Sony's Launch titles for 3 years before the release of the Playstation 3. I was the art contact for 16 studios worldwide taking feedback, creating assets, developing tools and tutorials for new tech and ensuring the engine could handle all of the various art needs for each studio

• Modeler/Animator/Rigger at Idol Minds

  Boulder, CO, United States of America

  March 1999 - June 2003

  Started as an environment modeler and track designer on the Coolboarders Series of games. Moved into the Character Animator role for a couple games, then moved into Rigging, Lead Animator and Lighting positions. Worked on Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 titles.