Work Experience

 

id Software

Level Designer – June 2010 to Present

Designer for Doom 4 Multiplayer.  Pitched original map concepts and developed existing ones into playable levels.  Responsible for initial top-down layout sketch, blockout and final art geometry using existing assets, lighting, entity placement, and then iteration of the maps based on playtest feedback.

 

Walt Disney Feature Animation

2D Animation Apprentice - Sept 2008 to March 2009

Performed hand-drawn animation tests under the mentorship of Andreas Deja

 

James Baxter Animation

Animation Intern - Summer 2007

Completed hand-drawn animation test of the character "Baloo," under the guidance of James Baxter

 

Infinity Ward

Art Intern - Summer 2006

Modeled and textured environment props for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Art Intern - Summer 2004

Converted, implemented and provided clean-up of old animations from the original Call Of Duty video game to the Call of Duty 2 engine. Also modeled a British Universal Carrier tank.

 

 

 

Education

 

California Institute of the Arts

BFA, Character Animation - 2004 to 2008

 

LA Academy of Figurative Art

Figure Drawing and Head Sculpting - 2003

 

Pasadena Art Center, College of Design

High School Program for Figure Drawing, Oil Painting and Animal Sketching - 2002 to 2004