shanewarild@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Co-founder and Freelance Artist at WarRay, whose aim is to provide high quality art assets and tools for Interactive, Post production and Pre-Vis in the competitive freelancing market. I am a highly creative and self motivated Art Director, 3D artist, conceptual designer, illustrator with 16 years experience in the computer games and visualisation industries. Exceptional team player interested in building partnerships within production art and inter-related fields. Passionate problem solver with extensive experience as a team leader seeking to promote and encourage best practice solutions for quality and efficiency.
Highly experienced across the spectrum of production art for entertainment fields.
Professional experience:
True Axis
Art Director
April 2015 to now.
Responsible for Art Direction and Outsourcing Management across existing and under-development IP.
- Management of outsourced assets, Concept design, prototyping, direction, QA and implementation.
- Design of art pipeline structure and workflow improvements:
- Character pipeline including concept design, prototyping, animation and rigging.
- Environments pipeline, concept through to implementation.
- Design of player customisable elements.
- Designed and implemented workflow changes to allow for player customisable elements.
During my time with True Axis, I have been fortunate to work with a small and dedicated team of core developers. I have had a role in 4 titles across the spectrum of art duties and take great pride in my own involvement and input.
EVOCCA COLLEGE
CLASSROOM TUTOR
TAE40110
TAELLN411
May 2014-April 2015
Tutoring and assessment of students in a computer game production course at the Diploma level within a VET College. Focussing on art and design techniques and the day-to-day tasks involved in maintaining an up to date and industry relevant course.
CREATURE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY/GLOBAL CREATURES
DIGITAL ARTIST/FABRICATION VISUALISATION
The Design and creation of assets and patterns for the construction of large scale character props for live stage and venue performances. Sculpting character maquettes and liaising across engineering, fabrication and soft design.
WICKED WITCH
CONTRACT Senior Artist
Responsible for the art direction and pipeline development for a yet to be announced sporting title. Liasing with outsourcing vendors and QA of assets and generation of morph data for player based character creation.
ROBERT BIRD/EXALLOS
CONTRACT 3D Designer
Responsible for the management and creation of assets across a broad range of disciplines and delivery formats, Design and implementation of an interactive BIM solution for multiple delivery platforms including mobile devices using game development software. Day to day problem solving to do with assets delivered by engineers as well as client data from a vast range of non-complimentary sources, to be delivered as high quality visual guides and promotional assets.
IGNITE STUDIOS
CONTRACT ARTIST
The creation of high-end licensed cars for an online racing simulator. Involves the creation of the model, texture LOD'ing and set up for game, a highly specialised and labour intensive market.
ZeroOne ANIMATION
CONTRACT ARTIST (December 2010 - January 2011)
Creation of shoe models and textures for an Adidas interactive/tvc campaign.
SIDHE INTERACTIVE
SENIOR ARTIST (May 2009 – August 2010)
Senior artist responsible for the creation of key assets for games, promotional art and RnD for future projects. Also directing and mentoring small teams in the creation of assets including vehicles, environments and characters.
Credits:
- Blood Drive
- Hotwheels Battle Force 5
- Rugby Challenge
EXITREALITY
LEAD CHARACTER ARTIST (Contract)
Responsible for the the design and implementation of an extensible open framework for the creation of character Avatars for a 3D social networking enterprise. Investigation of simplified techniques with the aim of establishing a standard form of bipedal character creation to promote “end user” customization. Management of outsourcing and system structuring.
TRANSMISSION GAMES
SENIOR ARTIST (February 2006 – September 2008)
Senior Artist responsible for the creation of art assets across a broad range of disciplines, providing direction for junior staff and outsourcing. Liasing with technical staff on the creation of real-time shader development.
Credits:
- Heatseeker
- Heroes Over Europe
- Ashes Cricket 2009
IMAGINARY NUMBERS
SENIOR ARTIST (May 2005 - February 2006)
Characters, Props, FX and Environments
Credits:
- Tactica Online PC
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
3D ARTIST (Dec 2001 - Dec 2004)
Characters, Vehicles, Environments, R&D
Credits:
- This Is Football 2003
- This Is Football 5/Online
- Getaway - Black Monday
- Fired Up - PSP
Software Literacy:
Maya, 3DS Max, Z-Brush, Unity, AfterEffects, Mudbox, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Gamebryo, TopoGun, Speedtree, Tortoise SVN, Xnormal.
REFEREES - available on request
