Experience

• Environment Artist at Dartfrog Creative

  Grand Rapids, United States of America

  January 2018 - Present

  • Taking client feedback from renders and making changes
  
  • Realistic materials, lighting, and rendering with Octane
  
  • Modeling and texturing realistic props, furniture, and environments
  
  • Developing and using texture scanner for fabric and other samples

• Senior Capstone (Environment Artist, Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer) at Ferris State University (Digital Animation and Game Design Program)

  Grand Rapids, United States of America

  January 2017 - May 2017

  • Concepted and created an environment in two different styles showcased in Unreal Engine 4
  
  • Designed, tested, and created posters and small booklets for print
  
  • Taught the analysis of an art style and how students can apply it to their own work
  

• Contract 3D Artist at Think Chromatic

  Grand Rapids, United States of America

  May 2016 - July 2017

  • Modeled hard/soft body game ready/cinema quality props using 3DS Max and CAD data
  
  • Created material finishes both custom and procedural using the Substance suite
  
  • Managed small group of artists using Agile management to finish large volumes of props
  
  • Taking client feedback from renders and making changes
  
  • Organizing documents from contractors for use in-house
  
  • Post production on renders
  
  • Video editing and post process work on renders/animations with After Effects and Photoshop
  
  • Realistc lighting and rendering with VRay, and Corona
  
  • Basic navigation of AutoCAD

• Product Illustration (Intern) at Steelcase

  Grand Rapids, United States of America

  August 2016 - December 2016

  • Utilizing internal management software
  
  • Material and tiling texture creation
  
  • Modeling from CAD data
  
  • Working in a corporate environment with 100+ employees
  
  • Working with internal plugins and file structures
  
  • Working with project management tools like Trello.
  
  Modeled hard/soft body game ready/cinema quality props using 3DS Max
  
  Created material finishes both custom and procedural using the Substance suite
  
  Managed small group of artists using Agile management to finish large volumes of props
  
  Video editing and post process work on renders/animations with After Effects and Photoshop
  
  Realistc lighting and rendering with VRay, and Corona
  

• UI/UX Designer (Intern) at Reset Studios

  Grand Rapids, United States of America

  August 2016 - December 2016

  • Designed, tested, and created UI for an untitled game prototype to fit a targeted market
  
  • Assets generated in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

• Environment Artist (Intern) at Underbite Games

  Grand Rapids, United States of America

  August 2015 - December 2015

  • Recreated organic and hard edge assets from concepts matching an art style
  
  • Unwrapped and textured assets in a development pipeline
  
  • Communicated with other team members to reach a deadline
  
  • Created hand painted textures
  
  • Worked with a large production team to complete Super Dungeon Tactics (20+)
  
  • Baked out special maps to help the texturing process