Experience

• Senior Character Artist at Gumi Vancouver

  Burnaby , Canada

  July 2015 - March 2016

  Worked on an unannounced AAA mobile title doing character models, character weighting, and hand painted textures. Also did a little bit of concept work for characters.

• Dead Rising 3 / Dead Rising 3 Super Ultra Arcade Remix Hyper Edition EX at Capcom Vancouver

  Burnaby, Canada

  January 2012 - July 2015

  I created clothing assets for the main character as well as creating complete characters including some bosses as well as a downloadable all new playable character named Angel. This all involved working closely with my lead as well as the art director. I dealt with zbrush, photoshop, Xnormal, Knald and maya in the creation of my assets, as well as some on house tools. I also did minor weighting of characters

  reason for leaving - an opportunity arose that I felt was worth a shot

• Senior Character Artist at United Front Games

  Vancouver, Canada

  January 2010 - February 2011

  Completed a 6+ month contract as a character artist on True Crime Hong Kong before moving onto a fulltime position. I was involved making assets for the games main character as well as helping on secondary characters/ character heads. My duties were to create lowpoly models, hipoly sculpts, normal and AO map creation as well as texture creation, and working within the company pipeline and following the art directors vision. I was also responsible for overseeing outsource art, this involved overseeing tasks and providing feedback on given tasks.

  reason for leaving - layed off

• Senior Character Artist / texture artist at Big Sandwich Games

  Vancouver, Canada

  February 2008 - December 2009

  An outsource house as well as DS/Wii developer. I was responsible for modeling/texturing/and weighting characters. I also helped to create props for levels as well as some minor concepting.

  reason for leaving - layed off

• 3d artist at Deep Fried Games

  Vancouver, Canada

  August 2006 - February 2008

  I was responsible for any character art as well as doing any concept art. I also pitched concepts for games. I helped train new artists with starting out in 3ds max as well.

  reason for leaving - I was not confident with the direction of the studio

• Senior Character Artist at Bioware

  edmonton, Canada

  August 1998 - August 2006

  makers of enormous RPGs, I had the privilege of working here for 8 years, had a great time and could not have asked for a better introduction to the industry. Here I started off as a concept artist and texture artist. I later taught myself how to use 3ds Max and slowly became a character artist. I would work closely with the art directors as well as the concept department. I was able to create both humans monsters and animals.

  reason for leaving - wanted to try life on the west coast