Experience

• Senior Environment Artist at Collective Anvil

  Derby, GB

  March 2023 - Present

  * Shader creation using Unity Shadergraph
  
  * Creating procedural level generation assets.
  
  * Participating in roundtable meetings on the design of the game.
  
  * 3D concepting of art assets and world design.
  
  * Level lighting
  
  * Post Processing
  
  * Marketing video creation
  
  * Modelling and texturing of in-game art assets, delivered to set standards
  
  * Developing best practices and techniques for producing art assets and environments.
  
  * Environment asthetic design and level layout
  
  * Working with programmers to develop the in-house tools and in-game tech.

• Senior Technical Artist at Lava Labs

  Nottingham, GB

  December 2021 - February 2023

  * Shader creation using Unity Shadergraph
  
  * Creating procedural level generation assets.
  
  * Participating in roundtable meetings on the design of multiple games.
  
  * 2D / 3D concepting of art assets and world design.
  
  * Level lighting
  
  * Post Processing
  
  * Marketing video creation
  
  * Providing critique on outsource and solving art issues to keep the art style and quality consistent across the board.
  
  * Modelling and texturing of in-game art assets, delivered to set standards with a very restricted tech budget.
  
  * Developing best practices and techniques for producing art assets and environments.
  
  * Providing high quality benchmark models for outsource vendors.
  
  * Environment asthetic design and level layout
  
  * Working with programmers to develop the in-house tools and in-game tech.
  

• Senior Environment Artist at Lockwood Publishing Ltd

  Nottingham, GB

  April 2020 - December 2021

  * Mentoring Junior and Mid level artists on the fundamentals of asset creation and working within our pipeline, with a focus on getting the most out of very restrictive tech budgets.
  
  * also all of the responsibilities outlined in the below Environment Artist role.

• Environment Artist at Lockwood Publishing Ltd

  Nottingham, GB

  March 2017 - April 2020

  * Providing critique on outsource and solving art issues to keep the art style and quality consistent across the board.
  
  * Modelling and texturing of in-game art assets, delivered to set standards with a very restricted tech budget.
  
  * Developing best practices and techniques for producing art assets and environments.
  
  * Providing high quality benchmark models for outsource vendors.
  
  * Environment asthetic design and level layout
  
  * Level creation and publishing
  
  * Environment lighting
  
  * Collaborating with external partners to design in-game events.

• Artist at Rare

  Twycross

  October 2014 - January 2017

  * Providing critique on outsource and solving art issues to keep the art style and quality consistent across the board.
  
  * Modelling and texturing of in-game art assets, delivered to set standards.
  
  * Level creation and world design
  
  * Developing best practices and techniques for producing art assets.
  
  * Providing high quality benchmark models for outsource vendors.

• Lead Artist at Team17

  Wakefield

  July 2013 - February 2014

  * Leading a team of experienced artists to deliver high quality artwork to fixed deadlines.
  
  * Providing critique and solving art issues to keep the art style and quality consistent across the board.
  
  * Attending and participating in meetings with other departments and feeding back to the art team.
  
  * Working with other departments to identify and solve problems effectively
  
  * Developing methods and lighting solutions for a 'day to night' transition, then manually animating lighting set-ups for each scene.
  
  * Working with programmers to develop the in-house tools and in-game tech.
  
  * Authoring CGFX shaders using node based shader networks.
  
  * Modelling and texturing of in-game art assets, delivered to fixed deadlines

• Artist at Team17

  Wakefield

  March 2012 - July 2013

  * Modelling and texturing of in-game assets. Creating prototype mock ups for games pitches and 'uprezzing' of 8-bit era graphics for modern devices.
  
  * Working with programmers to develop in-house tools and in-game tech, mainly the node-based shader authoring toolkit.
  
  * Authoring CGFX shaders using node based shader networks

• Artist at Eurocom

  Derby

  May 2010 - March 2012

  * Modelling and texturing of in-game environment assets such as props and modular level construction pieces that would then be passed on to the level creation artists to build the levels.

• Artist at Team17

  Wakefield

  May 2005 - May 2010

  * Modelling and texturing of in-game assets, mainly environment work but included some character models
  
  . Environment was mainly on a macro level building roadways, buildings, and terrain.