Home Design Makeover & Property Brothers Home Design

• Design and support art features to improve products

• Author shaders to achieve new looks

• Write and support tools for artists and designers

• Consult with art outsource producers to troubleshoot and improve incoming assets

• Improve pipeline by reducing implementation friction, solving bugs

• Spread learnings through documentation and workshops

• Improve performance across diverse device hardware

Home Design Makeover Pre-Production

• Developed visual identity during prototype stage

• Co-developed lighting pipeline

• Created visual effects including dynamic end-of-level cinematic sequence

• Created UI and transitions

• Determined art workflow, including file structure, naming conventions, texture sizes, model standards

• Create video advertisements and app store previews

Slots 360

• Created art pipeline for Slots 2 via consultation with artists, engineers, producers, and director to anticipate future project needs

• Tested and implemented new VFX solutions to achieve Art Director’s visual targets

• Extensively tested resolution and compression settings to maximize runtime memory efficiency and device footprint

• Created documentation of Database system that drives game behavior and animation, assisting across departments

• Acted as primary resource for art troubleshooting and consultation

• Migrated team to server-based content system early in production for improved stability and iteration time

• Authored new techniques to deliver high-quality visuals using SpecularCubeMap shaders

• Researched and implemented a color-tint overlay system for UI to create multiple themes without new assets

Live Games Support

• Investigated live game pipelines, proposed and developed tools to assist Game Design and Art teams

Storm8 Hackathon

• Lead Artist on game jam team to create a game prototype in less than 24 hours

• Created 3d models, textures, particle effects, and animation.

• Winner of "Best Looking" award

Personal Project - Farming RPG VR Game

• Developed art and code for Farming RPG game for Vive

Technical Art Department

• Created scripts and shaders to accomplish new visual effects (Alpha Fade, Transparent Additive, Specular Cube Map, Turbulence)

• Supported Tech Art department creation by contributing to mission statement

• Contributed to automatic asset processing scripts

• Created automatic sprite generation scripts supporting fixed or dynamic cell size

• Authored shader tutorials enabling artists to create high-end visuals

• Authored ‘Quick and Dirty Performance Testing’ guide to assist teams in testing new features or pipeline improvements

• Participated in Animation and 3D Artist meetings to communicate new tools and resources, troubleshoot, and advise across game projects

• Created new wiki space for Tech Art department

Rebuilding Existing Games in Unity

• Ported and optimized large archive of art assets for Bingo, Monopoly Bingo, Clue Bingo, and Hungry Babies by rebuilding textures, animations, particles, UI, etc.

• Created new outsourcing pipeline for Hungry Babies, documented with slideshows and video tutorials

• Created UI audit report for Bingo Unity that thoroughly explained best practices with example illustrations. Identifying these issues spawned a department wide knowledge sharing meeting

• Assisted in training apprentice VFX Artist and Match 3 Next team on 3d map performance, considerations, and metrics

Live Games Support

• Ported and optimized art assets of Bingo, Monopoly Bingo, and Clue Bingo by rebuilding textures, animations, particles, UI, etc.

• Supported artists, engineers, and producers on Match 3 Next, Frozen Frenzy, Hungry Babies, and Bingoes, allowing them to create new features such as King of the Hill

Personal Project - Untitled VR Clicker

• Developed art and code for 'clicker' genre game prototype for Vive

Frozen Frenzy Mania

• Researched and developed art pipeline for studio's first Unity game

• Pitched multiple visual treatments for world map, game pieces, high-value powerups

• Created four unique character animation rigs, adapted with evolving designs

• Quickly adapted art pipeline to accommodate feature requests and performance concerns

• Pitched solutions to changing project needs with animated mockups

• Collaborated closely with engineers to build and implement features

• Documented art pipeline and tutored 2d artists, 3d artists, and animators on Unity proficiency

Storm8 Hackathon - Scrolly Shooty

• Led game jam team to create prototype in less than 24 hours

• Created 3d models, textures, particle effects, animation

• Winner of "Best Looking" award

Global Game Jam 2015

• Made VR game prototype in 48 hours

• Created 3d models, textures, particle effects, animation

Cupcake Mania

• Created 2d animation rig 'Bruno Bear' to accommodate dynamic poses and diverse costume re-skins

• Animated characters and particle effects

Studio Operations

• Consulted on studio adoption of Unity engine by stress testing art pipeline

• Created multiple character rigs in many methodologies to enumerate advantages and limitations

• Helped test on-device performance to set asset budgets

Full Bore

• Animated Hero character 'Hildi'

• Animated VFX and environment animation

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Storm8 Hackathon

• Modeled, Rigged, Textured, Animated two characters for 24h game jam prototype