Summary
Environments/ Worlds Art Director currently working for Electronic Arts in Vancouver on AAA action adventure games.
I am passionate about crafting best in class visuals, telling stories through environments and making collaborative teamwork magic happen.
STRENGHTS & SKILLS:
- Highly creative and experienced in a variety of visual domains (Games, feature animation, film,
TV commercials, motion graphics)
- Strong focus on developing collaborative, inclusive and positive team cultures
- Provide clear, consistent and product centric vision.
- Establish quality targets and define "what good looks like" through Visual targets & references
- Create best practices documents, detailed styleguides and visual briefs
- Successful track record of recruiting, ramping up and leading teams of up to 50+ artists
internally or through distributed development across the globe.
- Daily feedback, reviews and art team management
- Scope, estimate and plan content and production phases
- Work seamlessly in close partnership with all stakeholders and disciplines (Level Design, Audio, Vfx, Cinematics, Animation, Marketing & Tech art)
- Drive concept needs, create paintovers and provide hands-on work
GAMES (AAA):
- Plants Vs. Zombies "BATTLE for NEIGHBORVILLE" (Art director)
- Star Wars: BattleFront II (Art director for EA Vancouver - Solo campaign)
- Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare II (Lead level artist)
- Battlefield: Hardline (Art director for EA Vancouver- Solo Campaign)
- Need for Speed Rivals (Environment lead - EA Vancouver)
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter (Environment lead - EA Vancouver)
- Need for Speed: The Run (Environment / levels lead)
- Skate 3 (Senior Environment and texture artist)
- Skate 2 (Senior Environment and texture artist)
FEATURE ANIMATION/FILM:
Dreamworks S.K.G
- Sinbad (3D layout artist -Dreamworks)
Warner Bros. Feature Animation
- The Iron Giant (Technical director)
- Scooby Doo (Senior Modeler/ 3d animator)
- Osmosis Jones (Lead Modeler)
- Quest for Camelot (Modeler / 3d Animator)
OTHER MEDIAS:
Studio owner, VFX supervisor and motion graphics artist on numerous TV commercials, music videos and branding projects for TV networks, creative agencies and direct clients.
Client List:
Lenovo
Nike
Renault
Homebase
Procter&Gamble
Nestle
Zenith Watches
Girard Perregaux Watches
Jean Richard Watches
Pictet Private Banking
Saatchi & Saatchi Geneva
Skills
Software proficiency
