Experience

• Associate Artist - Cinematic Environments at NetherRealm Studios

  Chicago, United States of America

  April 2018 - April 2019

  Worked closely with Lead to construct next generation levels and art assets that was used in cinematics, keeping consistency with the aesthetic of real time environments and characters.
  
  Composed and set up levels using art assets provided from blockouts to finished scenes, making any changes necessary to improve the cinematic experience.
  
  Set up Unreal Cinema sequences to modify environments where needed.
  
  Created Materials to assist in set dressing scenes.
  
  Kept track and took notes of new renders, making updates and changes where necessary.

• Associate Artist - Cinematic Environments at NetherRealm Studios

  Chicago, United States of America

  October 2016 - July 2017

  Worked closely with Lead to construct next generation levels and art assets that was used in cinematics, keeping consistency with the aesthetic of real time environments and characters.
  
  Composed and set up levels using art assets provided from blockouts to finished scenes, making any changes necessary to improve the cinematic experience.
  
  Set up Unreal Cinema sequences to modify environments where needed.
  
  Created Materials to assist in set dressing scenes.
  
  Kept track and took notes of new renders, making updates and changes where necessary.

• Associate Artist at NetherRealm Studios

  Chicago, United States of America

  September 2015 - June 2016

  Modeled and textured assets from concepts, including weapons and props
  
  High to low poly modeling and baking, repurposing assets and characters to fit mobile game guidelines and efficiency
  
  Created textures using Unreal 3 and 4 workflows
  
  Textured atlasing to produce efficient textures to be used by multiple meshes
  
  Worked closely with Lead Artist to construct levels packages, materials, and made improvements where needed throughout the game design pipeline in Unreal Engine

• Associate Artist at Netherrealm Studios

  Chicago, United States of America

  August 2014 - May 2015

  Modeled and textured Assets from concept including, weapons and props
  
  High to low poly modeling and baking, repurposing assets and characters to fit mobile game guidelines and efficiency
  
  Creating textures, diffuse, normal, specular, emissive and reflective maps
  
  Texture atlasing to produce efficient textures to be used by multiple meshes
  
  Combing mesh groups, while reducing unneeded polys optimizing meshes, and uvs
  
  Work with lead artist to construct levels, packages, and materials in Unreal Engine, make improvements where needed through the game design pipeline

• 3D Artist at Meemo llc

  Freelance, United States of America

  October 2013 - July 2015

  Modeled and Textured Assets to be sold and distributed in the Xbox Live Market.
  
  Made sure models and texture maps were efficient, optimized models and textures to achieve proper budget for each asset.
  
  Report to creative director on completion of each model to further optimize prop to highest quality.
  
  Model from Concept to Bring Licensed IP to life.