Experience

• Art Director at D3t Ltd and Coconut Lizard - Keywords Studios

  June 2020 - Present

  As an Art Director at d3t and Coconut Lizard my main role is to maintain quality across all artwork produced for the many projects in development at the studio. Supporting and mentoring the internal art team and collaborating with clients to achieve the highest quality across all the projects from both a visual and technical aspect.

  In this role I've contributed to the development of many projects.

  Released Projects List:

  Alan Wake Remastered - Art Director - Responsible for the timely delivery and final quality of all art produced by artists who contributed to the project. This also included the creation of benchmarks and development of pipelines / workflows to balance quality and productivity.

  Hogwarts Legacy - Review and quality control of art produced internally at d3t alongside pipeline support.

  Exoborne - Sharkmob - TBA

  Concord - Firewalk - Reviewing of art assets and additional visual direction on the work produced at d3t for Concord.

  In Development Projects -

  Art Direction, quality control, defining technical quality and visual fidelity, pipeline development and support and assisting with visual direction on a range of current projects which are a mix of FPS and Third Person games.

• Associate Art Director at Firesprite

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  September 2019 - June 2020

  During my time as an Associate Art Director at Firesprite I worked on an unreleased New IP prototype VR game developed in UE4.

• Lead Artist at Firesprite

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  April 2018 - September 2019

  During my time as a Lead Artist at Firesprite I worked on an unreleased IP based VR Title developed in UE4.

• Senior Environment Artist at WB Games / TT Games

  Knutsford, United Kingdom

  April 2016 - April 2018

  During my time at TT Games I worked on the Year 2 Lego Dimensions Packs which included Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them and PowerPuff Girls. I also contributed to Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 , primarily artwork in the Hub area which covered Xandar, Lemuria and some work on the 21st Century Manhattan area.

  I was also involved in pushing the visual quality during the initial first 8 months of Lego Star Wars: The Sky Walker Saga. This involved benchmark assets, defining pipelines and authoring shaders.

  As a Senior Environment Artist I was responsible for producing game content, optimisation, mentoring other artists and also shader/material authoring during my time there.

• Senior Artist / Location Lead at Evolution Studios (Sony)

  Runcorn, United Kingdom

  February 2012 - April 2016

  Project: Driveclub

  Role: Location Lead

  During the production of Driveclub I was given the opportunity of taking ownership of the Scotland tracks after the initial blockout phase to progress the tracks through to GM. I was responsible for the overall aesthetics of the tracks which required me to compose assets within the tracks, sculpt / model the landscape, setup materials and create/edit textures. I was also required to address playability issues, optimisations and bug fixes.

• Assistant Art Director at Evolution Studios (Sony)

  March 2011 - February 2012

  Motorstorm RC:

  I served as assistant art director on Motorstorm RC released on PSN and PlayStation Vita in February 2012

  Responsibilities included:

  - Working alongside the art director in defining the look of the environments.
  
  - Liaising regularly with designers and concept artists to discuss aspects of the game.
  
  - During the production I was responsible for managing the environment art team to deliver all environments on schedule and to quality on both platforms.
  
  - Lighting, bug killing and polish for the majority of the tracks. I've also contributed a full environment from design to completion called Roadblock.
  
  - Provision of various marketing assets was also needed. This included in-game screenshots and high quality renders of in-game assets.

• Environment Artist at Evolution Studios (Sony)

  April 2009 - January 2011

  Motorstorm Apocalypse:

  On this project my main task was to design and produce the track called Interstate. There were four different variants created. I was responsible for producing artwork and working on the level design and dealing with outsource assets.

• Environment Artist at Evolution Studios (Sony)

  October 2008 - March 2009

  Motorstorm Pacific Rift DLC:

  My contributions to the expansion pack entitled “SPEED” included the tracks Darkfire Swamp and Quicksands. I was responsible for designing and carrying out all the related tasks to bring both of these tracks through production.

• Environment Artist at Evolution Studios (Sony)

  July 2007 - October 2008

  Motorstorm Pacific Rift:

  Staring as a prop artist I moved on to work as an environment artist. I was responsible for the track Sugar Rush ensuring the track was bug free, completed on time and to quality.

• Junior Artist at Evolution Studios (Sony)

  May 2007 - July 2007

  Motorstorm DLC:

  In a junior artist role I was responsible for creating assets for two DLC tracks.