Experience

• expert character artist at Sledgehammer Games

  Toronto, Canada

  August 2022 - Present

  expert character artist
  
  - creation of single-player story characters for an unannounced game
  
  - creation of multiplayer character asset skins for an unannounced game
  
  - creation of mulitpplyer character skins for COD Vanguard
  
  - polish outsourced player character skins
  
  - cleaning and finetuning 3D scans for the character asset library
  
  - texturing items for the character asset library
  
  - assembling characters from the asset library according to concept art

• senior character artist at Torn Banner Studios

  Toronto, Canada

  February 2019 - July 2021

  senior character artist

  - collaborate with team members
  
  - create modular characters for the 64 player game Chivalry 2
  
  - character head sculpts and low poly
  
  - armor high and low poly creation
  
  - texturing all assets in Substance Painter
  
  - unreal engine integration of above assets
  
  - tweaking material properties in engine, most importantly for armor metal
  
  - communicating with outsourcer

• senior character artist at Freelace character artist

  Toronto, Canada

  December 2018 - February 2019

  worked as freelance character artist on different projects

• lead character artist at Ubisoft

  Toronto, Canada

  January 2012 - November 2018

  lead a creative team of character artists
  
  character asset quality control on several AAA games
  
  created high-quality character assets AAA for games
  
  - sculpting full characters for cinematic and in-game use
  
  - unwrapped and textured all assets I modeled
  
  - hair assets creation, including textures
  
  - clothing simulation in Marvelous Designer
  
  - scan cleanup and implementation into the pipeline
  
  collaborated creating character pipeline for cinematic as well as open world modular characters
  
  partnered with production manager to established production deadlines
  
  support HR in recruiting members for the character team
  
  helped establish outsourcing pipeline and oversaw outsourcing quality
  
  partnered with the art director in look development for background characters
  
  taught Zbrush classes to Ubisoft artists

  Ubisoft projects:
  
  Splinter Cell Blacklist, from preproduction to release
  
  FarCry 4 lead character artist for the Shangri La section of the world, full production duration
  
  FarCry Primal as character lead in a consulting function
  
  3 other unannounced AAA games that will be released over the years to come.

• senior character artist at Ubisoft

  Toronto, Canada

  November 2010 - December 2011

  sculpt full characters from head to toe following concept art
  
  textured these character assets
  
  create hair card based hairstyles
  
  3D face scan clean up for some head scans
  
  create game characters based on scan data as well as model characters from scratch.
  

• lead character artist at Silicon Knights

  St.Catherines, Canada

  July 2008 - November 2010

  lead a team of character artist developing AAA games for the Xbox 360
  
  quality control for all character assets for the projects I worked on
  
  created high-quality character assets for cinematics and gameplay
  
  unreal engine shader setup

  Silicon Knights projects:
  
  Too Human
  
  canceled AAA game
  
  Xmen Destiny

• character artist at Silicon Knights

  St.Catherines, Canada

  June 2005 - July 2008

  created characters and weapons following concept art
  
  Worked as part of a creative team