Experience

• Production Art Lead at Meta

  London, United Kingdom

  October 2021 - Present

• Creative Art Lead at Microsoft

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  March 2020 - September 2021

• Freeland Character Concept Artist at Volta

  United Kingdom

  September 2021 - Present

• Freelance Character Concept Designer at NetEase

  December 2020 - Present

• Founder / Director at Hephaestean Creations LTD

  London, United Kingdom

  December 2017 - Present

  Founder and character concept artist at Hephaestean Creations LTD. Creative concept design for characters in Games and VFX.

• Senior 3D Marketing Artist at Jagex

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  May 2019 - November 2019

  Creating pipeline for 3d Marketing assets (environments, characters, weapons, props)
  
  Optimization of assets for marketing art to create scenes with rendering and realtime
  
  Optimizations to allow uploading of realtime models for 360 viewing on website (characters, environments, weapons.)
  
  • Creating 3D illustrations for Twitch Prime and Website
  
  • Look Development, creating lighting and shaders to have the game feel.
  
  • Updating existing models for high quality render
  
  • Rigging and animation

• Lead character artist / Lead artist at Samsung

  London, United Kingdom

  May 2018 - March 2020

  Responsible for the AR Emoji Pipeline for S10 release.
  
  Responsible for:
  
  • Creating Character pipeline for AR,
  
  • Creating Art Bible for production and outsourcers
  
  • 3D Concepts
  
  • Creating pipeline for character rigging, customization and cloth/hair animation.
  
  • Reviewing outsourcers applications before hiring
  
  • Making sure quality is kept to a standard, Responsible for cohesive content between departments.
  
  o Technical Art department
  
  o Character Art department
  
  o Environment Art department
  
  o Technical Animation department
  
  o Animation department
  
  • Handling outsourcer teams for quality assurance
  
  • Training people in pipelines and mentoring. (I had to fly many times to South Korea for this)
  
  Achievement: Winning Samsung’s 3rd place project of the year award for AR Emoji that is releasing with S10.

• Senior Character Artist at Sony Playstation

  London, United Kingdom

  June 2017 - November 2018

• Senior Character Artist / Character Concept Designer at The Imaginati Studios

  London, United Kingdom

  September 2016 - May 2017

• Freelance Senior Character Artist at Bossa Studios

  London, United Kingdom

  February 2016 - June 2016