Overview

• Senior-level environment artist with great problem-solving ability and attention to detail. Friendly, able to work well with other artists, programmers, and management. Plays console and pc games.

Software

• Many years in Maya, Max, and Photoshop. 1 year with Z-brush.

Employment        

 

July 2000 - present: Naughty Dog

 

     Uncharted: Drake's Fortune   PS3   

• Lead Environment Artist

     Jak X: Combat Racing    PS2 

• Track modeler
• Textures
• Trained new people
• Helped with tools r&d for PS3 title in development

     Jak III     PS2 

• Environment modeler
• Textures
• Game design
• Trained new people

     Jak II: Renegade     PS2 

• Environment modeler
• Textures

     Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy     PS2 

• Modeled environments
• Texture mapping support

September 1998 - July 2000: Electronic Arts, Canada

     Need for Speed 5: Porsche Unleashed     PC

• Lead Artist, handled the custom modeling, texturing, animation, and vertex lighting of unique moments throughout the tracks
• Trained people from scratch to model and texture

     Need for Speed 4: High Stakes      PS1

• Handled the custom modeling, texturing, animation, and vertex lighting of unique moments throughout the tracks

June 1997 - August 1998: Cyclone Studios

     Bioswarm     PS1

• Lead Artist, responsible for concepts, models, textures, and LODs for the vehicles, worlds, and enemies
• Made the select and title screens
• Hired a concept artist and an animator, the prior of whom I trained from scratch to model and texture

September 1993 - January 1997: Atari Games Corporation (coin-op)

     San Francisco Rush     arcade

• Responsible for texturing the worlds and cars
• Modeled large sections of the tracks, as well as special landmark features like Chinatown, Haight Ashbury, and Market street
• Created the select screens, high score screen, hud, and game fonts

     Metal Maniax     arcade

• Did textures for most arenas, and 2 cars
• Created several backgrounds and skies
• Did many of the effects and sprites, including the sound select screen

     Primal Rage     arcade

• Captured, processed, and cleaned up all animations of the dozen or so human characters
• Created the intro movie and title graphics for the promo video

 

Education

• 1 year animation apprenticeship with Viewmaster Corporation in Portland, Oregon
• 6 months commercial graphics apprenticeship at the Art Farm, Portland, Oregon
• 6 month video effects and capture internship, Atari Games
• Rapid Visualization and Basic Industrial Design course, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver bc.

Special skills

My primary strengths are modeling and texturing for realtime 3d games. I have a strong background in technical art, and have always worked toward the difficult goal of optimization and aesthetics. I'm familiar with many of the advantages, constraints, and nuances of console, arcade, and PC development. I'm always eager to learn new skills and mentor those around me. I try above all to be an excellent team member, since a good team as a whole is a lot more effective than the individuals that make it up.

Other interests

Underwater film making, video editing, photography, snowboarding, and mountain biking.

Some games I'm currently playing or have played this past year: Guitar Hero II, Gears of War, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Half-life 2, Doom 3, Battlefield 3, Call of duty 2, Dawn of War, Res Evil 4, Company of Heroes...

 

References available by request                       

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