Experience

• Pre Vis Modeler at Nickelodeon

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  November 2022 - January 2023

  Responsible for creating low resolution assets, textures, environments, and simple rigs for use in Pre Vis animation.

• Character Modeling Lead at Nickelodeon

  Burbank, United States of America

  February 2022 - Present

  • Sculpt high resolution characters and oversee contractor and vendor sculpts to ensure quality.
  
  • Review and note all passes for retopology, UV layout, and surfacing via drawovers, documentation and sync-ups.
  
  • Give feedback on expressions, rigging, and lighting passes.
  
  • Work closely with Producers and Art Director to ensure look and feel of show remains unified and on brand.

• 3D Asset Creation Supervisor at Mindshow

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  January 2021 - February 2022

  - Oversee the creation of all 3D assets, including characters, environments, and props, from previs through rigging.
  
  - Manage a team of up to 8 artists, tasking and noting all assets in Shotgun, and QCing all files.
  
  - Ensure the handoff of data to and from contractors and outsourcers is supported and respond to any requests and notes from vendors.
  
  - Work closely with directors and production staff to properly scope the project, and to adjust creative to match realistic goal sets.
  
  - Provide guidance to artists and establish efficient strategies while developing the asset pipeline and workflow.
  
  - Create hero assets and sets in maya and Zbrush, texture in Substance Painter, and create shader networks for rendering with Redshift.
  
  - Recruiting and hiring of modelers, texture artists, lighters.

• Senior 3D Artist/Technical Coordinator at Mindshow Inc

  Los Angeles

  October 2019 - January 2021

  -Create models, UVs, textures, and shaders for characters, environments, and props
  
  -Look development for real time and offline rendering
  
  -Sculpt blend shapes
  
  -Evaluate and plus-up models and textures submitted by subcontractors
  
  -Define and optimize pipeline and workflow for emergent production technology
  
  -Liaise between Production, Art, and Engineering
  
  -Provide technical and artistic expertise during the creation and development phase of pre-production
  
  -Build out show schedules from greenlight through delivery

• 3D Artist at Mindshow

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  July 2018 - October 2019

• Associate Character Modeler at Mindshow

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  May 2017 - July 2018

• Freelance - 3D Artist at Origami Dollar, LLC

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  January 2017 - Present

• Modeler and Texture Artist at Arconyx Animation Studios

  Sherman Oaks, United States

  December 2016 - March 2017

• Modeler at Thinkwell Group

  Glendale, United States

  July 2016 - October 2016

• modeling and texturing intern at DARKMATTER TM

  Hollywood, CA, United States of America

  April 2016 - June 2016

  
  Look Development
  
  Modeling assets
  
  Texturing assets
  
  Building shading networks
  
  Creative input on original content