Experience

• Senior Staff Technical Artist at Bend Studio

  Bend, US

  May 2023 - Present

• Technical Artist at Guerrilla Games

  August 2017 - April 2023

  Responsible for creating, optimising shaders and authorising PBR corrected textures for other departments. Developed and implemented tools/scripts as a member of an eight-person team, to make the workflow(s) more efficient and robust.

• Shader & Texture Artist at Guerrilla Games

  September 2014 - August 2017

  Researching, creating, optimising and delivering shaders. Producing textures in a photorealistic style for Horizon Zero Dawn, which had a wide variety of materials. To ensure shaders were used in an orderly fashion by different departments, we provided documentation for a seamless hand-off. On multiple occasions provided support (with different tasks) to several departments during the pre-production and polish.

• Environment artist/Lighting at Splash Damage

  December 2013 - September 2014

  Creating, dressing, polishing and/or lighting environment art from block out to completion (for Dirty Bomb and Gears of War Ultimate Edition). Mentoring intermediate Zbrush users, investigate new workflows, write and maintain internal documentation for new starters and colleagues.

• Freelance 3D-artist at Freelance

  October 2012 - October 2013

  Model and texture environmental assets or props for AAA projects based on briefings (E.g., The Witcher 3 as credited).
  
  Besides working for triple A studios I've had the chance to work closely with Gametextures.com for whom I did individual textures which are now being sold on their website.
  
  Responsibilities: High/Low poly modelling, Texturing, Uv-mapping

• Intern 3D Asset-Artist at Guerrilla Games

  September 2011 - March 2012

  As intern Asset-Artist on Killzone: Shadow Fall, I was responsible to model High and Low poly assets to improve visual fidelity for the PS3 to PS4 transition, create shader and textures that matches the photorealistic style of the project. In addition, we did our own research on material expressions or technical functionality.