Experience

• Principle Character Artist at Blackfield Entertainment

  US

  January 2020 - Present

  Created 35+ painterly characters and variants to identically match the hand drawn esthetic.
  
  Hand painted texturing on all characters, weapons, and props.
  
  Designed a system to allow Flow Maps to work on animated watery characters.
  
  Built custom shaders and materials for flipbook style animation of textures on characters.
  
  Created and iterated a custom water shader for obstacles, projectiles and damaging attacks.
  
  Modeled & textured a variety of environmental assets, buildings, weapons, watery hazards.
  
  Built all assets with rigging/animation in mind, collaborated constantly with those teams.
  
  Participated in playtesting and provided feedback to designers.
  
  Thrived within a remote team, communicating across several states in the U.S.
  

• Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Utah

  Salt Lake City, US

  August 2023 - Present

  Teaching part time Intro to 3D Game Art to 38-40 students. I absolutely love teaching game dev, this has been such an incredible experience to help train the next generation of game developers.

• Vehicle/Hard Surface Artist on "Chaos-Kart" at Baka Bros. Entertainment

  Salt Lake City, UT

  May 2020 - February 2021

  Created stylized racing go-karts with geometry for squash & stretch animation.
  
  Textured stylized vehicles with stylized Unreal PBR pipeline.
  
  Communicated with a creatively remote team.
  

• Character Artist/Technical Artist on “WE WENT BACK” at Dead Thread Games

  Salt Lake City, UT

  September 2019 - July 2020

  Indie game with 120,000 downloads in first release month on steampowered.com
  
  Created realistic human and alien creatures:
  
  ZBrush > Maya > Substance > Unreal workflow.
  
  Textured characters using packed texture methods for Unreal PBR workflow.
  
  Designed and created alien creature combining knowledge of anatomy & muscle structure.
  
  Started iterative model to rig workflow, collaborated with rigging artist & animator regularly.
  
  Unreal particle VFX & Houdini fire R&D.
  

• Vehicle & Environment Hard Surface Artist at Collins Aerospace

  Salt Lake City, UT

  April 2018 - May 2020

  Created military vehicles, tanks, planes, ships, and buildings for pilot flight simulators.
  
  Created PBR textures, tileable textures, & trim sheets.
  
  Built complex LOD optimization structures by manually reducing poly count in models.
  
  Built modular asset kits and textures for wide use.
  
  Wrote documentation on animation retargeting processes.
  
  Implemented an intern on-boarding system to ease transition of new interns.
  
  Initiated office wide upgrade from Maya 2016 to 2019 for current features.
  
  Tested a new custom FBX exporting system, co-wrote documentation.
  

• Character Artist for “Mechromancy” at FE Labs

  Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

  January 2019 - May 2019

  Modeled and textured mechanically accurate hero character
  
  Each joint was piston driven, requiring model to be built on correct pivots to be animated properly
  
  Animated the Robotic character
  
  Featured on ABC4 News for innovative Alternative Control Game at University of Utah gaming event