Experience

• Senior Character Artist at Bungie

  Seattle, US

  April 2020 - August 2024

  • Worked closely with Art Directors & the art team to create high-quality, optimized 3D armor sets that achieve the artistic vision & style of industry-leading games Destiny 2 & Marathon with millions of players
  
  • Created 10+ character sets in varying themes by modeling, sculpting, retopologizing & UV unwrapping concepts of a constantly changing nature (ranging from hard surface, military, organic sculpted creatures, hair cards, cloth)
  
  • Collaborative Team Player working closely with other departments to plan / review schedules & provide estimates, known for clearly communicating regular updates & proactively voicing concerns to appropriate team members in order to integrate / deliver character assets oftentimes weeks ahead of schedule
  
  • Produced high-resolution digital sculpts, realistic + stylized materials & VFX using node programming used by +8 team members across multiple sets
  
  • Partnered with Concept, Animation & Tech Art to execute a new stylistic look for avant garde project “Marathon”, ensuring the characters function within product + performance requirements (gameplay, animation & rendering)
  
  • Engineered workflows to ensure our characters function within our product & performance requirements across many gen consoles, including gameplay, animation and rendering for low poly & texture optimization
  
  • Taught juniors & peers on other teams new workflows in Blender + Marvelous Designer to improve the quality of the game's character assets & boost our team’s technical understanding & efficiency
  
  • Represented Bungie at Zbrush summit 2022 teaching cloth fundamentals to +6,000 industry professionals
  

• 3D Character Art Intern at Playstation

  San Diego

  May 2019 - September 2019

  • Selected out of +2000 applicants due to excitement & aptitude in approaching difficult new technical concepts
  
  • Processed & cleaned scan data of heads & clothing using Substance Painter & Zbrush to create photorealistic characters featured in The Last Of US 2 & MLB: The Show 2020, industry-defining titles played by millions
  
  • Created high-resolution digital 1:1 scans to sculpts with strict requirements to capture likeness of MLB players
  
  • Built several optimized hero asset clothing pieces for Ellie, the main protagonist in TLO2
  

• Lead Character Artist & Illustrator at Markiplier's "​Damien​”

  Los Angeles

  September 2018 - March 2019

  • Handpicked by one of Youtube’s biggest let’s players (+36M subscribers) to design & develop client’s vision
  
  • Created, executed & oversaw development of the team’s 2D/3D pipeline to successfully deliver a 21 minute animation in 8 months whilst mentoring 4 junior artists & illustrators
  
  • Combined traditional / digital illustration & 3D character modeling skills to develop new 2D / 3D character style
  
  • Modeled, unwrapped, hand painted, rigged & composited 3D characters that were viewed +3M times
  

• 3D Character Artist & 2D Concept Artist at State of Play "South of the Circle"

  Los Angeles

  June 2017 - May 2018

  • Conceptualized 1940s/60s character concepts for stylized Apple Design Award-winning app game
  
  • Developed ultra-optimized, experimental techniques to create stylized 3D characters that utilized vertex colors
  
  • Rigged & prepped characters to utilize mocap animation data
  

• Character Artist & 3D Generalist at Goodbyeworld Games "Before Your Eyes"

  Los Angeles, US

  November 2015 - June 2017

  • Conceptualized 1940s/60s character concepts for stylized Apple Design Award-winning app game
  
  • Developed ultra-optimized, experimental techniques to create stylized 3D characters that utilized vertex colors
  
  • Rigged & prepped characters to utilize mocap animation data
  

• H1Z1 Concept Artist at Daybreak Games

  San Diego

  May 2015 - September 2015

  • Selected from +1000 applicants due to traditional fine art and conceptual skills
  
  • 3 of my concepts were selected to create zombie variants in early genre-defining AAA battle royal game