Shipped Games

Monolith - WB Games
Aug 2007 - Present
 

Hogwarts Legacy
Sr. Tech Artist  on loan to Avalanche

Xbox X/S, PS5, PC, Switch

- Wrote Unreal 4 Python tools to audit assets. Finding assets not set up correctly, out of spec, duplicate, not in source art....

- Presented several reports related to performance and content standards. 
- Created Unreal 4 blueprints to aid in the environment art propagation. 
- Optimized world collision, and refined collision standards. 
- Created and modified vegetation shaders.  Presented pros and cons of solutions.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Sr. Tech Artist

Xbox One, PS4, PC

- Memory management.  Set up budgets for all departments policed and enforced memory budgets.

- Kept track of size on disk.  Profiled content, and found missing assets, and assets that were included by error.  

- Environment art, policed assets, reviewed finished assets and ensured they were sticking to their guidelines. 

- PIX performance profiling.

- Established fire-spreading performance guidelines.
- GPU Cloth System (New system), wrote tools so that art would work with tech. 
- Tree System (New system), wrote tools so that art would work with tech.

- Wind (New system), flushed out workflow, did initial pass on all levels and times of the day.
- Wrote Tool to convert mesh to new Heightfield Terrain tools.
- Wrote tools to automate animated cube map creation.
- Pre-computed volume meshes, Wrote a tool to make optimized shadow volume meshes in 3ds Max for use in the game.
- Maxscripts, PhotoShop Scripts and Actions, Python Tools, C# Tools, Maya Mel. 
- Wrote tools to automate and ID assets that were out of budget / Guidelines.  C# Asset View scripts.
- Helping others with lots of internal tools, troubleshooting, on loading of new employees. 
- Helped character art with new shippable LOD numbers, and then helped police assets. 
- Created PC Benchmark Level. Level layout, Character and FX placement, and Camera animation.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Sr. Tech Artist, World Art

Xbox One, PS4, PC
- Vegetation System, flushed out the workflow. 
- GPU particle system, flushed out workflow, created all the insect GPU particles, and some of the weather ones. 
- Native Life system, flushed out the workflow. Placed all Fx and Markers. (Bugs, Rats, Spiders, Birds, Bats.)
- Weather Systems, some workflow, and most of the placement, rain / wet look, wind.  Puddle cube map creation.
- Some environment art asset creation.  
- Prototyped custom shadow geo workflow for huge draw call wins, also made it so that shadow geo would do additional culling. Did most of the implementation. 
- Performance profiling, with PIX. 
- Last Gen PS3 and Xbox 360, before the studio decided to hand off the last-gen ports, I set LOD limits and distances, scaled back, and turned off systems to get the game working on these last-gen platforms.
- Memory monitoring, mostly Level and Lighting content. 
- Some shader creation. 

- Created PC Benchmark Level. Level layout, Character, FX placement, and Camera animation.

Guardians of Middle-earth
Sr. Tech Artist, Environment Art

Xbox Arcade, PSN, PC
- Level design, prop, and texture creation.

- Halfway through this project made the switch to tech art.  Wrote multiple tools to assist world construction.

- Worked with engineers on a new vegetation system.

- Helped make the game performant.

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Gotham City Impostors
Environment Art

Xbox Arcade, PSN, PC

- Environment and vehicle outsourcing manager.

- Level concept design, level propagation.

- Gameplay prop modeling rigging and texturing.

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Environment Art - on loan to Snowblind

Xbox 360, PS3, PC
- Asset creation, level propagation.

- Shader creation using their node-based software.

- 3ds max tools scripting.

- Came up with a cheap shader-based solution for environment art cloth simulations.

- Created a vast orc army using animated shaders and particle Fx. Modeled and rigged gameplay turrets. 

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Environment Art

Xbox 360, PS3, PC
- Level propagation, and environmental storytelling.

- Created props and textures.

- First pass lighting.

- Towards the end was responsible for optimizing about half the single-player levels and most of the multiplayer levels. 

- DLCs Reborn and Armored Front contributed to level design, level propagation, sky box creation, and some Fx and was credited as a technical artist.

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