Experience

• Character Artist at Bungie

  Bellevue, United States of America

  May 2022 - Present

• Associate Character Artist at Bungie

  Bellevue, United States of America

  March 2021 - May 2022

• Contract Character Artist at Bungie

  Bellevue, United States of America

  September 2020 - March 2021

• Character Artist at Microsoft

  Redmond, WA, United States Minor Outlying Islands

  February 2020 - June 2020

  • A short term contract working on an update for AltspaceVR’s avatar system
  
  • Developed new assets and ported over existing ones to the new art direction, assets included various articles of clothing and hairstyles.
  
  • Helped solidify the production pipeline for avatar creation and visual style
  
  • Created multiple templates, alphas and building volumes to help ensure ramping up could go smoothly, assets could be created quickly, consistently and efficiently.
  
  • Worked with tech art to troubleshot problem areas in the pipeline, making sure the plugins, filters and scripts are easy to use and user friendly.
  
  • Provided support for outsourcing to ensure that external vendors can get ramped up as quickly as possible and help reduce the number of iterations.

• Character Artist at Keywords Studios Seattle

  Redmond, WA, United States of America

  October 2015 - May 2019

  Art directed, gathered and created visual reference and well documented pre-production, to ensure assets are created at the highest level and achieved quick client approval
  
  Managed outsourcing to polish and direct 3d models to meet the strict specifications of AAA clients
  
  Solved artistic and technical problems by creating pipelines and workflows to streamline asset creation on a tight timeline
  
  Prioritized efficiency to meet AAA client expectations with a low number of iterations
  
  Owned the creation of 3d assets to be the quality bar for the outsourcing team
  
  Constantly provided concise direct feedback, yielding results and providing opportunities for outsource artists to learn

  Credited Titles:
  
  • Kingdom Hearts 3
  
  • Spyro Reignited Trilogy
  
  • Dauntless
  
  • Brass Tactics
  
  • Witchblood
  
  • Unannounced projects under NDA
  

• Character Artist Intern at ArenaNet

  Bellevue, Wa, United States of America

  April 2014 - April 2015

  Created armor and hairstyles for Guild Wars 2 and it’s first expansion Heart of Thorns

  Credited Titles:
  
  • Guild Wars 2 (post launch content)
  
  • Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns